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IPL 2024: Why Kuldeep Yadav regrets his time with KKR?
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The left-arm wrist spinner made his IPL debut for KKR and spent five seasons with the Kolkata based IPL franchise. However Kuldeep could not find much success with the team and he joined Delhi Capitals ahead of the 2021 season of the IPL.
Delhi Capitals spinner Kuldeep Yadav has said that he regrets the time he spent with Kolkata Knight Riders.
The left-arm wrist spinner made his IPL debut for KKR and spent five seasons with the Kolkata based IPL franchise. However Kuldeep could not find much success with the team and he joined Delhi Capitals ahead of the 2021 season of the IPL.
“I still regret my time in KKR (from 2016-2020) and feel whatever I am doing now, wish I could have done it back then.
“It still hurts me that had I worked on those skills back then, I could have dominated even more,” Kuldeep said during a select media interaction.
Since joining Delhi Capitals, Kuldeep has found his mojo back and taken 41 wickets in 33 matches for the Delhi team.
“In KKR, I needed guidance but now I don’t need it, as now I dictate terms. In 2019, Mahi bhai (MS Dhoni, his national team mentor) had retired that year and I needed guidance. The idea that I have now, has come with experience,” Kuldeep said about his success in the last one and half years.” Kuldeep added further.
Kuldeep had an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery in 2020.
Post surgery, Kuldeep changed his run-up from diagonal to a much straighter one and also increased the pace on his delivery with more drift and prodigious turn in his break-backs.
“The difficult part was before I got that knee injury (surgery for ACL), I wasn’t bowling well. It is very important that there is someone in your life who supports you.” It was at that time he went back to the drawing board and worked with his early coach Pandey.
“It could be your coach or your parents, and my coach supported me and reminded me that you shouldn’t back-track.
“It is because you can be out of sight. During injury time, I was relaxed. I was thinking how can I get better? There were apprehensions about how things can go astray when one tries to add new things into his armoury.
“If I introduce new things in my bowling, there is fear of it affecting the turn and drift. Those aspects can get reduced while bringing a new facet.
“I did try it earlier but perhaps didn’t try in the correct manner. I tried increasing the pace in my deliveries but it didn’t work.
“Then my NCA physio gave me some tips and in a practice game, I tried to bowl with increased pace and did long sessions with Pandey sir,” he said.
Kuldeep also thanked head coach Ricky Ponting and former DC assistant coach Shane Watson for helping him when his rhythm was a bit off.
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