Kuldeep Yadav (born 14 December 1994) is an Indian international
cricket
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er. He is a bowling all-rounder who bowls Left-arm Unorthodox spin bowler is and a capable Lower order batter who plays for
India
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and for
Uttar Pradesh
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in domestic cricket. He was signed by the
Delhi Capitals
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for the
Indian premiere league. He has played for the
Indian Under-19 cricket team and played in the
2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
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. On 18 December 2019, against the West Indies, he became the first bowler for India to take two hat-tricks in international cricket. On 17 January 2020, in the second ODI
against Australia, Yadav became the fastest
spin bowler
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Purpose
The main aim of spin bowling is to bowl the cricket ...
for India, in terms of innings, to take 100 wickets in ODI cricket, in his 58th innings.
Early and domestic career
Yadav was born and raised in
Kanpur
Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
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, the son of a brick kiln owner. In an interview, he revealed that it was his father who wanted him to continue playing cricket and even took him to a coach (Kapil Pandey). Inspired by bowling greats
Wasim Akram
Wasim Akram HI (; born 3 June 1966) is a Pakistani cricket commentator, coach, and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Akram is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, and several criti ...
and
Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan (born 8 October 1978) is an Indian former professional cricketer who played all forms of the game for the Indian national team from 2000 till 2014. He is a fast-medium left-arm bowler. He was the second-most successful Indian pace ...
, he wanted to become a left-arm seamer. However, given his slight build, his coach insisted on him becoming a wrist-spin bowler as he was impressed with the turn and variations he was providing unknowingly at the trials. Since then, he started following and watching videos of
Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australia ...
's bowling and made him his role model.
Yadav also revealed that earlier in his life, there was a dark phase in his life when he thought of giving up cricket and committing suicide, when he was not selected in the
Uttar Pradesh
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’s under-15 team.
Yadav was a member of the
Mumbai Indians
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squad in 2012 and signed up by the
Kolkata Knight Riders
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in 2014, whom he represented at the
2014 Champions League Twenty20.
In January 2018, Yadav was bought back by
KKR in the
2018 IPL auction
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Player retention ...
.
In February 2022, he was bought by the
Delhi Capitals
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in the
auction
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for the
2022 Indian Premier League tournament.
International career
Yadav was selected in the
Indian cricket team
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to play against
West Indies
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in October 2014 but did not appear in any match. In February 2017, he was added to India's
Test
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squad for their one-off match
against Bangladesh.
He made his Test debut for India
against Australia on 25 March 2017, at the
Dharamshala Cricket Stadium
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The town of Dharamsala is best known internat ...
, taking four wickets in the first innings.
Yadav is the first left-arm wrist spin bowler to represent
India national cricket team
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in Test cricket. He is also only the third such bowler in
Test cricket
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to take four wickets on debut.
In June 2017, Yadav was named in India's squad for a
limited overs
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tour to the
West Indies
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.
He made his
One Day International
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(ODI) debut for
India
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against the
West Indies
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on 23 June 2017.
However, during this game, he was unable to bowl a single delivery as the game ended with no result due to rain during the first innings while India was batting. He was ultimately able to bowl in the next match of the series, where he took three wickets.
He made his
Twenty20 International
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(T20I) debut for India against the West Indies on 9 July 2017.
On 21 September 2017, Yadav became the third bowler for India to take a
hat-trick
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Origin
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in an
ODI after
Chetan Sharma
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and
Kapil Dev
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. He took the
hat-trick
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Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
at
Eden Gardens
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Eden Gardens is often re ...
,
Kolkata
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,
against Australia.
On 3 July 2018, Yadav took his first five-for in a T20I and also became the first left-arm wrist-spin bowler to take five wickets in a T20I during the
first T20I against England, in fact he also became only the third Indian after
Yuzvendra Chahal
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and
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
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to take a five-wicket haul in a T20I.
On 12 July 2018, during the first ODI against
England
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, Yadav grabbed his maiden five-wicket haul in an
ODI and also set a new record for registering the best bowling figures by a left-arm spin bowler of any kind in an ODI (6/25). He also shattered the record of
Shahid Afridi for registering the best bowling figures by a spinner against England in ODIs and also broke Afridi's record for recording the best ever bowling figures by a spinner in an ODI in England.
On 6 October 2018, in the
first test against West Indies, Yadav took his first five-wicket haul in
Tests
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.
After an impressive outing against
Australia
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, in the T20I series of
India tour of Australia 2018/19, Kuldeep jumped 20 places to claim a career-best third position in the
MRF ICC T20I Bowlers Rankings, updated on 26 November 2018.
On 6 January 2019, in the
fourth Test against Australia at the
SCG and in Yadav's first Test match on Australian soil, he took his second five-wicket haul (5/99) in Tests, in Australia's first innings.
On 11 February 2019, Yadav moved to second position in the T20I Bowlers Rankings. In April 2019, he was named in
India's squad for the
2019 Cricket World Cup
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. On 30 June 2019, in the match against
England
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, Kuldeep played in his 50th ODI. On 18 December 2019, against
West Indies
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he became the first bowler for India to take
two hat-tricks in ODIs.
References
External links
*
Kuldeep Yadavs profile page on Wisden
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yadav, Kuldeep
1994 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
India Test cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
India Twenty20 International cricketers
Uttar Pradesh cricketers
Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers
India Red cricketers
One Day International hat-trick takers
Cricketers at the 2019 Cricket World Cup
Delhi Capitals cricketers