Kuldeep threat for Warner
kolkata — Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav relishes the opportunity of getting Australia opener David Warner out time and again and feels the southpaw comes under pressure every time he bowls to him.
“If you are all over a batsman, you don’t feel the pressure. I think Warner is under pressure when he is playing me. He feels I can get him out any time,” Kuldeep told reporters ahead of India’s second One-Day International (ODI) at the Eden Gardens here against the Aussies on Thursday.
“I feel good when I bowl to Warner. I set up a plan when I bowl to him. Hopefully, I will get him out on more occasions in the next four ODIs,” the 22-year-old said.
Kuldeep got Warner out in the first rubber in Chennai with a slider that went straight through at the same line with Warner going for a cut and getting a big outside edge to wicket-keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni who took a sharp catch.
This was not the first time Warner failed to read the left-arm trickery of Kuldeep who got his back on debut in the fourth Test in Dharamsala too.
That was not it. In the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Kanpur lad sent the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper back in the hut here four months back.
Asked who is the toughest batsman to bowl to in the Australian side, Kuldeep said it is skipper Steve Smith.
“In Tests, I have seen him reading the balls well. He knows how to eke out singles. I feel it is tough to bowl to him. Generally, he prefers playing on the leg stump. Whenever he feels, he hits a four and likewise takes a single at will. So I feel it is tough to bowl to him,” he said. —