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India Coach Refuses To Answer Question On Kuldeep Yadav: ‘Not Relevant’
Sitanshu Kotak, India’s batting coach, avoided a question on Kuldeep Yadav’s place in the team, calling it ‘irrelevant.’
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Sitanshu Kotak, the Indian men’s batting coach, refused to answer a question on whether spinner Kuldeep Yadav would have started the second Test against Sri Lanka, which began on Sunday, if he wasn’t unwell. He brushed the question aside, saying he didn’t think it was a ‘relevant question’.
There were reports of Kuldeep being dropped for 33-year-old uncapped off-spinner Saransh Jain for this match. Head coach Gautam Gambhir didn’t mention anything on the eve of the match, August 22, and spin bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule on August 21 only said Kuldeep wasn’t training because he was ‘resting’.
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Kuldeep didn’t train even on the eve of the match, after Gambhir’s press conference. He traveled with the team as usual and was named as a possible concussion substitute — which also raised eyebrows — with Jain making his debut in his place.
“When we left, only his throat wasn’t well,” Kotak said in the post-day press conference. “He has recovered reasonably well. He looked good when I met him in the evening. So it came down to whether we need three fast bowlers or three spinners. And with them having four left-handers in the top order, it made sense to play an off-spinner.”
When posed the question about whether Kuldeep would have played if he was fit — a query questioning if he still was part of the team management’s preferred first 11 — Kotak didn’t seem too happy.
“He genuinely had viral when he left from there (Galle, the venue for the first Test). If the team needs an off-spinner, there is no need to say that he (Kuldeep) isn’t well. If the guy is in no position to play, there is no point thinking about what would have been done if he would have been fit. It’s unfair to think like that,” he said.
The question was raised because there have been doubts about how far Kuldeep has fallen in the pecking order. Ravichandran Ashwin recently said that he was feeling Kuldeep wasn’t captain Shubman Gill’s first choice spinner in matches, and others have been calling for better ‘treatment’ of the attacking bowler.
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Ask News18Kuldeep Yadav was not selected for the second Test against Sri Lanka due to a viral infection. India’s batting coach, Sitanshu Kotak, declined to comment on whether Yadav would have played if he had been well, stating it was not a relevant question.
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