9. Kuldeep Yadav
With Ravindra Jadea suffering the injury during their third friendly in Sydney (SCG), Culdip Yadav was set to replace him in the fourth friendly, but India surprised everyone by choosing Washington Sundar over Culdip Yadav.
In conditions conducive to spin bowling in India, India has a good chance of including Chinese bowling from XI v England in the first test. Having last played a friendly in January 2019, his capricious form saw Kuldeep stay away from XI India for the most part, but the China national has a decent record in the longest game format.
Kuldeep Yadav has amassed 24 wickets to his name in the 6 friendly matches he has played. A total of 24 weekends including two draws with 5 belts.
