The Asia Cup championship will be a stern test for India's two wrist spinners, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav, more so the latter after he was sent back from the England tour following a dismal performance in the Lord's Test. He was the cynosure of all eyes when he bamboozled the England batsmen in the first T20 International at Manchester where he grabbed six wickets in his four overs.

It was thought he would give the home batsmen a harrowing time in the Test matches too after doing fairly well in the ODIs. But the team management chose to play him at Lord's when the conditions were not in his favour. After the flop show in the second Test he was dropped for the third and then sent back home to the grind with India 'A'.