Kuldeep Yadav – India’s upcoming chinaman ready to strike big

[Cricket_Hacker]

This is perhaps the best phase for the development of Indian bowling. After the recent origin of Mohammed Shami, another new bowling sensation has emerged in the form of the young and vibrant Kuldeep Yadav. His impressive performance in the junior Asia cup recently held at Sharjah has been highlighted and praised whole heartedly by the media. In that tournament, he had taken 16 wickets. He happens to be a chinaman bowler – a rarity these days – who has reached the 16 wickets mark in just 5 matches. He will hopefully ensure his place in team India in the near future. Kuldeep had played a key role in the victory for team India over the arch rival Pakistan in the Asia Cup. He was simply the best bowler for India in the tournament. Keeping in view his recent performances, he has been asked to report directly in Bangalore, where the Ranji team of UP will face Karnataka. A very timely boost for Kuldeep! He follows the style of Shane Warne, albeit being a left arm bowler. While playing for India’s under-19 team in Sri Lanka last year, he had taken 14 wickets in two Test matches and had also grabbed 5 wickets in 3 ODIs. Expressing his earnest desire to give his best, he has said on occasions that he takes even net practice sessions very seriously and always enters the ground with a totally positive attitude. After the Ranji trophy, he has also been told to join the camp for the upcoming Under-19 World Cup, which will be held in Sharjah from 14th February. He further clarified that he aims to win the Under-19 World Cup for India. He hoped that he will be successful in achieving his goal. When he got to know that a number of players such as Virat Kohli and Sir Jadeja have joined team India through the Under-19 route, Kuldeep admitted that it is his ultimate goal to play for team India one day. Kuldeep had never thought of being a chinaman bowler. All he wanted was to become a medium-fast bowler. But owing to a lesser speed, his coach Kapil Pandey asked him to try spin bowling using his left arm. When he tried this, instead of off break, it came out to be a leg break. Thereafter, Kuldeep, on the advice of his coach started bowling in the style of Shane Warne. Any left arm spinner mainly bowls off break. But Kuldeep can do this using his left arm – hence, he is known as a chinaman bowler. Kuldeep is already on the rolls of Mumbai Indians as a reserve player, and has already managed to trouble Sachin Tendulkar with his variations in the nets, bowling the legendary batsman on the first ball he bowled. The story goes that Tendulkar, while batting in the nets, was unaware that Kuldeep was a chinaman bowler, and didn’t expect the ball to come in, getting bowled after being completely surprised. Hopefully, he will go on to be a long term prospect for India – unlike many others who have shown their spark but not been able to maintain it. Best wishes.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/kuldeep-yadav-india-upcoming-chinaman-051248418.html

[BlueBee]

Chinaman! Very rare these days. I only know Brad Hogg who bowled LA Chinaman but don't know if there are others

[tweaker]

This is very good news as there were very few chinaman bowler in the international cricket

[veer]

why is it hard to bowl legbreaks using left hand?

[Old guy]

why is it hard to bowl legbreaks using left hand?

It is not Majority of batsmen are right handlers correct? And it's always harder to hit spinners when they move ball away from you specially at age group levels where most people are not that good So if ur lefty u have advantage of spinning ball away naturally with off spin...why would u bowl leg break and bring it in? I think his might be reason u don't see many chinamen bowlers

[cowboysfan]

It is not Majority of batsmen are right handlers correct? And it's always harder to hit spinners when they move ball away from you specially at age group levels where most people are not that good So if ur lefty u have advantage of spinning ball away naturally with off spin...why would u bowl leg break and bring it in? I think his might be reason u don't see many chinamen bowlers

As a left hander bowling wrist spin is incredibly hard and more importantly it is tough to control,much easier to be a traditional left armer.

[Old guy]

As a left hander bowling wrist spin is incredibly hard and more importantly it is tough to control' date='much easier to be a traditional left armer.[/quote'] Why is it harder than right hand bowler bowling leg spin? Obviously it's harder than off spin or left arm spin

[SLICKR392]

Any video of his bowling?

[Cricket_Hacker]

Any video of his bowling?

unfortunately nothing on YouTube

[thecricketer]

Read about him on cricinfo. A very good prospect, India's own mystery bowler. Good time to introduce him to international cricket is WC 2015. He will very handful on bouncy Australian wickets. Kick out Ash, Raina, Dhawan, Ishant, Rohit etc and bring in Zol, Pujara, Gambhir, Kuldeep etc. Team India will be very formidable with the new additions.

[cowboysfan]

Why is it harder than right hand bowler bowling leg spin? Obviously it's harder than off spin or left arm spin

Wrist spin generally is tough and that's one of the reasons we don't see many in international cricket nowadays.

[express bowling]

Good to see a wrist spinner doing well. Indian team needs a good wrist spinner badly.

[Old guy]

Wrist spin generally is tough and that's one of the reasons we don't see many in international cricket nowadays.

Obviously but why so much disparity between leg spin and chinamen? I mean u can count number of chinamen spinners on one hand But there are so many left arm orthodox spinners..I think my explanation makes sense:--D

[rkt.india]

He bowls both orthodox and chinaman.

[rkt.india]

The account which had u19 has been deleted.

[MCcricket]

He is a left arm leg spinner basically and for him to be successful at higher level besides turn and skills he needs a good google because he has to turn the ball away from the right handed batsmen and just having a good leggie wont do, but have heard he is pretty good.

[Lord]

He bowls both orthodox and chinaman.

interesting.is it allowed to bowl both without telling batsmen like in switch hit

[cowboysfan]

interesting.is it allowed to bowl both without telling batsmen like in switch hit

yes but he has to report if he changes hand and goes around.

[vvvslaxman]

china man is not off spin though in theory does the same thing of coming into right handers Wrist spinners extract more bounce than finger spinners.

[veer]

It is not Majority of batsmen are right handlers correct? And it's always harder to hit spinners when they move ball away from you specially at age group levels where most people are not that good So if ur lefty u have advantage of spinning ball away naturally with off spin...why would u bowl leg break and bring it in? I think his might be reason u don't see many chinamen bowlers

So its hard to get selected/drafted in team rather than rare skills. I thought people are making it out that its a rare skill to be chinaman type bowler.