Kuldeep Yadav Showed The World He Has A Miracle In His Hands: Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin praised Kuldeep Yadav's three-wicket haul against Pakistan in the 2025 Champions Trophy, calling it a 'miracle'. Kuldeep's performance helped India bowl out Pakistan for 241, securing a semi-final spot.
India spin legend Ravichandran Ashwin said Kuldeep Yadav ‘showed the world’ that he has a ‘miracle’ in his hands with his three-wicket haul against Pakistan in the 2025 Champions Trophy in Dubai on Sunday. The spell helped India bowl Pakistan out for just 241, which they chased with six wickets to spare.
This was Kuldeep’s best spell since he underwent a hernia surgery late last year and missed a few months of cricket. Prior to this, he had recorded 1/53, 1/38 and 0/43 in three ODIs, bringing his place in the team in the crosshairs, especially due to Varun Chakaravarthy’s emergence as a gun white-ball bowler.
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“People should understand that a spinner is making a comeback after an injury," Ashwin said on his YouTube channel. “Sometimes in our country, we don’t give so much time to the bowlers. If the batsman fails after a comeback, we tell that he has just come after an injury. If you think it happens with Virat and he plays 2-3 games, then what do they say? Everyone will say the king will be back. Kuldeep Yadav is also like that. He has some miracle in his hands. He does the job. He showed the world today."
“As spinners, our life changes in two minutes. One more example from the match was Kuldeep Yadav. One Salman Ali Agha. Kuldeep bowled a beautiful googly like a top spin and Salman got beaten in the flight. It’s not easy to beat a batsman like Salman in the air. I have seen lots of batsmen. And the next ball, he trapped Shaheen Shah Afridi LBW. What an amazing bowling Kuldeep did," Ashwin added.
Ashwin further explained the affect of a Sports Hernia and how it was aggravated by the ‘dead’ pitches in Dubai.
People have to understand what Kuldeep’s injury was. Sports Hernia is what? It happens below the hip and it’s very important for a spinner for hip drive. He has just come back from that so it will take him some time. But another difficult thing in these conditions in Dubai is that the wicket is dead. No matter how many revolutions you will give, the ball will stop in the wicket and because of the rotations, a spinner’s ball gets fast after falling because of the rotations and goes out of pitch. If it is not doing with the surface, the cut grass makes it even more difficult. So Kuldeep did a fantastic job on such a wicket," said Ashwin.
India qualified for the 2025 Champions Trophy semi-final after New Zealand knocked out Bangladesh (and thereby Pakistan) with a five-wicket in Rawalpindi on Monday.
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