Had the delivery spun in, I wouldn’t have got the hat-trick: Kuldeep

TIL Desk Sports/ Indian cricket’s newest hat-trick hero Kuldeep Yadav feels had he bowled the traditional left-arm wrist-spinner’s delivery, which comes into a right-hander, he possibly wouldn’t have attained the coveted milestone.

Kuldeep dismissed Matthew Wade, Ashton Agar and Pat Cummins off successive deliveries in the second ODI against Australia, at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday, to become third Indian bowler after Chetan Sharma and Kapil Dev to register a hat- trick in ODIs. His hat-trick victim was Cummins, who edged a wrong ‘un, which ’keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni snapped up in a flash.

“For the hat-trick ball, I didn’t think I would get a wicket if the ball spun in. The only way in that scenario would have been a bat-pad opportunity. There was a slip in place so I chose the wrong ‘un,” Kuldeep told senior teammate Bhuvneshwar Kumar during a customary post-match interview. He said it was difficult to grip the ball initially, which is why he went for a few runs in his first spell.