Bhajji disgruntled over Kuldeep’s non-selection

TIL Desk Sports/ Kuldeep Yadav’s shocking exclusion from the Indian team for the second Test against Bangladesh after his last match heroics has made Harbhajan Singh wonder if the left-arm wrist spinner “would be better off” if he is not winning ‘player of the match’ awards.

Kuldeep, who made a return to Test cricket after 22 months, took a match haul of eight wickets including a career-best 5/40 and scored 40 crucial runs only to be dropped for the ongoing second game in Mirpur to accommodate Saurashtra seamer Jaydev Unadkat in the playing eleven.

Harbhajan, one of India’s greatest spinners, was completely baffled by the call to drop Kuldeep. “I think from now on, Kuldeep should stop taking five-wicket hauls. Who knows that he might just get to play two Test matches in a row!” a sarcastic Harbhajan told when his reaction was sought.