Former England spinner and commentator Graeme Swann hailed Yuzvendra Chahal as a "world-class spinner" and said that the star leg-spinner should be part of India’s Test team.
Chahal has been one of the key bowlers since making his debut in 2016 in limited-overs cricket, but he has yet to get an opportunity to play for Team India in Test cricket. Notably, the leg-spinner has so far played 61 ODIs and 60 T20Is, where he has picked up 104 and 75 wickets respectively.
Speaking to The Times of India, Graeme Swann said: “I’d sit down with Yuzi and I’d say, ‘What is it? Do you want to play for India?’ If he does, I’d have him in the squad straight away.”
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He also believes that Chahal is the best spinner in the world and he can bowl in tricky conditions.
He added, “I think he is world-class, he is the best spinner in the world in my opinion. His control, bowling leg-spin in very tricky conditions, especially when that ball gets dew on it and gets wet is incredible.”
Swann also said that spinners get easily pigeonholed into one of the other formats of the game by the national selectors, and it has an adverse impact on their careers.
He signed off by saying, “Definitely people get pigeonholed into one or the other format and can then find it hard. Well, I should say Yuzi is the best white-ball spinner then because we don’t know if he can be the best red-ball spinner. But it shows that some cricketers have been pigeonholed into the white-ball format.”
(With TOI Inputs)
