Wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav is having a tough time in international cricket for quite a while now. He was part of the Indian squads on the Australia tour and the home series against England, but didn’t get many opportunities.

While the 26-year-old played only one ODI Down Under, he featured in one Test and two ODIs against England without any notable performance.

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With the COVID-19 situation forcing the BCCI to send a second-string squad to Sri Lanka for the white-ball series in July, Kuldeep finds himself with an opportunity to impress and claim his place in India’s T20 World Cup squad, slated to be held in UAE later this year.

“Nothing parallels performance, and if I perform, I know I’ll definitely be back,” Kuldeep told The Telegraph.

The left-arm chinaman bowler believes a good outing in Sri Lanka followed by the second leg of IPL can guarantee him a spot in the Indian limited-overs sides.

“This Sri Lanka tour is very, very important because, first of all, I’m not a part of the Test squad (in England). And secondly, this is one good opportunity to play and perform.

“Thereafter, we’ve got the IPL as well, which gives me another opportunity to be back in the reckoning,” Kuldeep said before the squad’s departure to Sri Lanka.

“And honestly, I’m not thinking much about a T20 World Cup berth now because it eventually boils down to how well I keep doing. There’s healthy competition in the squad, so I know what my job is,” he further remarked.

Kuldeep failed to take a wicket in two ODIs during the home series against England earlier this year. However, he is not too concerned about it.

“When teams easily get 300-plus and that too, in 40 overs or so, you can understand how the conditions were. But I don’t want to blame the wickets or anything else.

“If I had bowled more good-length deliveries, I could’ve had an impact. The stuff I dished out was a little bit on the fuller length and on good batting wickets, playing shots off such deliveries becomes easy. At the same time, these mistakes happen when you don’t play regularly. Your rhythm then gets affected,” he said.