As veteran offie Ravichandran Ashwin failed to impress in his comeback to the ODI fold in the ongoing three-match series against South Africa, the call to bring back young spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the Indian white ball team has gained pace among cricket fanatics. Ashwin was rested for the third ODI in Cape Town and Jayant Yadav came in his place but he also failed to take any wicket and finished with the bowling figures of 10-0-53-0. During the match, the commentators were discussing the importance of Kuldeep in the team, recalling the way 'KulCha' (Kuldeep and Yuzvendra Chahal) dominated the ODI series against South Africa in 2018.

Just to remind readers, Chahal took 16 wickets the last time India played an ODI series in South Africa in 2018 and Kuldeep scalped 17. The duo was a regular in the Indian white-ball squad between 2017 to 2019 and achieved great success. But things changed quickly, especially for Kuldeep after the 2019 World Cup in England. The 27-year-old has had a rough ride in the past two years, after a five-wicket haul in Sydney, when head coach Ravi Shastri had termed him as India's No 1 spinner in overseas conditions in 2019.