#2 Who are India's spin options?
It will not be wrong to say that the duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have played the most important role in making India a formidable white-ball side in the last two years. They have picked up crucial wickets through the middle over of the innings and have bamboozled ides in all kinds of conditions. However, out of the last ten ODIs at home, they have played together only in three games. So the question is why is the team trying to repair something that is not broken.
The primary reason is India's lack of batting depth with Hardik Pandya missing. India does not have a tail which is competent with the bat. They need a genuine all-rounder at number 7. Apart from Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja comes to mind for filling that spot. He has been given the opportunity due to which one of Chahal or Kuldeep has had to sit out as going with three spinner might be a big risk.
More often that not, Chahal has been the one in the firing line. He missed the first two ODIs against Australia in Australia. Even in this series, he only played one game, where he was very expensive. One got to feel for him as he had to pay for no fault for his own. Due to this, he might go into the World Cup down on confidence.
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