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Indian Team Management Would Be Looking Towards Axar Over Kuldeep For Third Spinner Slot, Says Kumble
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium: With Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja being absolute certainties in India’s playing eleven for the first Test against England starting in Hyderabad on Thursday, the question which now remains is who between Axar Patel or Kuldeep Yadav will grab that vacant spin-bowling slot.
With many left guessing over the Axar-Kuldeep toss-up, legendary leg-spinner and former India head coach Anil Kumble believes the team management would be leaning in favour of picking Axar over Kuldeep due to the former’s impressive run in the 2021 series against the same opposition on home soil.
“In terms of the preferred third spinner, if the conditions are spin-friendly, which I am assuming that it would be, then the preferred spinner would be Axar Patel, because of what he brings to the table in terms of his batting and all-round abilities. But if it’s a really good batting surface, then the preference would be for Kuldeep as the third spinner.”
