Fresh from his match-winning display in India’s 188-run win within the Chattogram Test, Kuldeep used to be benched for an additional seamer in Jaydev Unadkat, a call which used to be slammed through the likes of Sunil Gavaskar.
“I don’t regret the decision. It was a right decision. If you look at the wickets, our fast bowlers too have taken many wickets and they had a lot of assistance. There was a lot of inconsistent bounce,” Rahul mentioned protecting his resolution on the post-match media interplay.
Struggling at 74 for 7 whilst chasing a tough 145 on a hard fourth-day observe, India survived a scare as Ravichandran Ashwin and Shreyas Iyer pulled off an out of this world three-wicket chase with an unbroken 8th wicket partnership of 71 runs.
“We took the decision keeping in mind our experience of playing here in the ODIs. We saw there’s assistance for both spin and bounce. It was to have a balanced side and I think it was a right call,” he added.
Kuldeep had made a impressive comeback after 22 months, returning with a match-haul of 8 wickets and likewise scored a valiant 40 in a a very powerful lower-order partnership with Ashwin. He used to be additionally adjudged the ‘Man of the Match’ of their opening Test at Chattogram.
“It was really a tough call, knowing that he won us the last Test. But seeing the pitch a day before the game, we felt that there would be assistance for both fast bowlers and seamers and keeping that in mind we wanted to play the Best and balanced team that we can,” Rahul mentioned.
The workforce felt Kuldeep’s absence particularly in Bangladesh’s 2nd essay when India with a a very powerful first innings lead of 87 runs struggled to bowl out the house aspect.
Bangladesh had been 70 for 4 however went directly to make 231.
In hindsight, Rahul mentioned he would have beloved to have Kuldeep bowl in the second one innings if he had the choice of the ‘Impact Player‘ rule that may make its debut in subsequent yr’s IPL.
“Ideally, if the Impact Player rule was there — like in the IPL — I would definitely have loved to bring Kuldeep in the second innings,” Rahul mentioned.
The Impact Player of ‘Super Sub’ rule, which made its debut within the Big Bash 2020 and used to be additionally noticed within the Syed Mushtaq Ali home T20s this season, way every workforce could make one substitution at some point of a tournament.
Each workforce will put up 4 substitutes on the toss and any one in every of them can are available as ‘Impact Player’.
The two-Test collection proved to be disastrous for Rahul (57 runs, moderate: 14.25) and Virat Kohli (45 runs; 15.00) however the stand-in skipper blamed it at the fast transition from white ball to crimson ball cricket.
“When you play all three formats, it is a bit tricky to jump from one format to another. Personally, it takes a bit of time to get back into the groove and understand, to get your mind back to what you were doing right.
“Each structure is a problem on how briefly you’ll adapt… It’s a problem this is one thing that excites me.
“Obviously the performance in this series was not great. I can accept that. I tried my best and it didn’t work. I can look forward and see what I can do better next time,” he added.
Blaming it on their tight time table, Rahul mentioned: “Unfortunately our schedules are too tight for some of the players who play all formats to do that and get used to too quickly.
“But that is the problem for us. Ideally, we might have sought after much more time between crimson ball and white ball to get used to, get our thoughts again to play crimson ball cricket and broaden just a little little bit of endurance and carry out.”
Iyer had a fruitful series as he averaged 101 with two fifties. He was the second leading run-getter with 202 runs behind Cheteshwar Pujara (222) and his reassuring presence, especially in the second innings calmed things down.
“He has been across the workforce for a very long time. I’m so glad for him, he grabbed the chance with each arms. The approach he performed these days used to be extra special. He made it glance in point of fact simple,” Rahul mentioned.