How 3 wicketless IPL games triggered Kuldeep Yadav’s mid-season reset
5 min readChennaiJun 19, 2026 07:13 PM IST In the middle of the IPL, as Kuldeep Yadav went wicketless for three successive matches, the wrist-spinner did something he hadn’t done before: Take a break mid-way through the campaign and head to Kanpur to work with his personal coach Kapil Pandey. The reasons why he couldn’t wait till the IPL was over were evident to Pandey even before Kuldeep landed at his doorstep. “Before the IPL, in the T20 World Cup, he played just one game. When you spend so much time on the bench, you tend to lose your rhythm. That’s what was happening with Kuldeep,” Pandey tells The Indian Express. The rhythm that Pandey refers to isn’t just pointed to the wristspinner’s line and length. It transcended into his bowling action as well. “From being side-on, he was more open-chested. The stability that a spinner needed was lacking. If you are not side on, then you are compromising on your basics. And without basics, you are not really who you are,” the coach adds. …
