Selected in place of Axar Patel and Yuzvendra Chahal, Patel delivered a Player-of-the-Match performance and lived up to expectations with his dismissal of four West Indies batsmen cheaply. Two of his three overs were maiden overs.
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Barbados: Twenty-eight-year old, left-arm leg-spinner Kuldeep Yadav has blazed a trail of glory straight into the history books for Team India in the first ODI of their three-match series against the West Indies, in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Thursday, July 27, a report in Times Now Digital, says.
Selected in place of Axar Patel and Yuzvendra Chahal in the playing XI for the series opener, Patel delivered a Player-of-the-Match performance and lived up to expectations with his dismissal of four West Indies batsmen cheaply. Two of his three overs were maiden overs.
In his bowling spell (19th, 21st, and 23rd overs) he picked up a wicket in every over, two of them in his third over. On the third ball of his first over, he trapped Dominic Drakes (3) in front of the wicket. Then on the fourth ball of his next over, he got rid of Yannic Cariah (3), another leg-before decision. His last over saw the exit of host captain Shai Hope (43) and Jayden Seales (0).
While Hope was dimissed LBW after he tried to play a reverse sweep on the third ball, Sealeas was caught by Hardik Pandya at leg slip, off the last ball. This last-ball dismissal also saw the end of the Weat Indies’ innings
Four other Indian bowlers—Yuzvendra Chahal (4/17), Amit Mishra (4/31), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4/31), and Mohammed Shami (4/48)—have managed to take four wickets in an innings on West Indies soil in ODIs, but Kuldeep’s figures of four for six in three overs, outclasses every one of them as the very best.
A left arm leg-spinner is also referred to as a ‘Chinaman bowler’. In layman’s terms this means that while an orthodox leg-spin delivery turns away from a right-handed batsman, a ‘Chinaman delivery’ brings the ball back to the right-handed batsman.
(Rewrite by David Solomon)
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