Why Kuldeep Yadav should be picked ahead of Ashwin on the England tour

Mystery element

Everything about Kuldeep Yadav is a mystery at the moment. The fact that he is a chinaman bowler and there are very few of this type, his googly being one of the hardest to read off the hand and also many of the batsmen from the current England team haven’t faced him before are the factors that work in his favor.

Also, he is still into the early days of his international career and not every team has done a lot of analysis on his bowling. England are traditionally weak against leg-spin and this England team, which is short on confidence already, will not find it any easy to decipher mystery leg-spin. A left-arm leg-spinner with a surprise element will only add to their agony.