Kuldeep Yadav is an Indian cricketer who plays for the national team since 2017 and represents the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Team at domestic level. This Kanpur-based cricketer pursued a cricket career because of his father persistence.

He was coached by Kapil Pandey in his starting period and wanted to bowl like his inspirations Wasim Akram and Zaheer Khan. At the beginning of his training period, Kuldeep Yadav tried to becoming a left-arm-seamer. Later, his skilled coach insisted him to become a chinaman bowler after witnessing his unusual talent.

He has some unique bowling style like the turn and variation with unorthodox spin and wrist-spin, etc. This left-armed batsman gradually became left-arm chinaman bowler of the country with the perfect training session with his coach. He started his cricket career with a shiny performance in Under-19 World Cup in 2014 where he was the highest wicket-taker. After that, in 2016 Duleep Trophy tournament, Kuldeep Yadav shone once again to the utmost with his unique chinaman style.

He is most appreciated for his cunning ability to deceive batsmen with his length & style coupled with the smartness of use width of crease. This talented bowler had started his IPL career with Mumbai Indians in 2012 but couldn’t make a desirable place. Later on, he was bought by the KKR team in 2017 and gradually started showing his quality with this team after a few tries.
(as Compiled by Madhushree Das Ghosh)
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