England vs India: James Anderson praises Kuldeep Yadav for his heroics in the first ODI

England were invited to bat first by the visitors on a flat pitch in Nottingham as the fans hoped for yet another run-fest at the venue. The openers of England started well and added 73 runs for the opening wicket to give a headache to the Indian captain. But the introduction of Kuldeep Yadav changed the things dramatically as he ran through the defences of the top three batsmen of the opposition which has impressed James Anderson immensely.

Jason Roy was the first one to lose his calm against the wrist-spinner as he tried a reverse sweep only off the second delivery of his spell. He completely lost his shape while playing the shot and could only pop up a catch to Umesh Yadav who was standing at cover. In the very next over, he caught Joe Root plumb in front of the stumps as the batsman completely misjudged the length.

Soon they got the much-needed wicket of Jonny Bairstow to tighten their grip. Kuldeep bowled a wrong’un which totally foxed the in-form batsman as he also urged his captain to take the review which turned out to be an excellent decision. He went on to bowl a four-over spell which read 3/9 and had titled the game in India’s favour.

Anderson impressed with the chinaman

James Anderson, while analysing the ongoing ODI for BBC, was rather worried to see England not picking Kuldeep Yadav once again after playing him so well in the second T20I. He was impeccably impressed with the Indian youngster and had some special words for him.

“They have not picked Kuldeep which is worrying, he is spinning it a lot both ways. It’s not just the fact Kuldeep is hard to pick – he lands it brilliantly and hardly ever misses his length. Usually, leg spinners bowl some bad balls but he doesn’t,” he said.

England are currently 109/4 in the 21st over and they have completely struggled to score runs since the powerplay and it remains to be seen if the duo of Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler bail them out of the trouble.

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