5 reasons why Kuldeep Yadav can be the face of Indian spin bowling across formats

#3 Kuldeep doesn’t rely on the pitch to take wickets

"The wicket does not matter to me"

What makes Kuldeep different from the rest of the spinners is the fact that he does not rely on the wicket. He can pretty much get turn on any wicket in the world, which makes him a brilliant proposition for his team. And he has given plenty of evidence of this ability of his.

On the first day of the Test match against Australia (Kuldeep’s debut match), when David Warner and Steve Smith were toying with Ashwin and Jadeja, Kuldeep came on, got a vicious amount of turn and quickly claimed three wickets. It was a first-day pitch which was not assisting the spinners much and yet Kuldeep had the Aussie batsmen in their hunches.

"The wicket does not matter to me. When there is no assistance (from the wicket) I have to bowl with more patience and keep trying to turn the ball," Kuldeep had noted before the start of this year’s IPL. How many spinners in the world can lay a similar claim?