After successfully qualifying for the Super Eight stage of the ongoing T20I World Cup, India are preparing to lock horns with Afghanistan in their first match of the Super 8s on Thursday. Indian head coach Rahul Dravid addressing the media ahead of the battle talked about Kuldeep Yadav who is yet to make his appearance at the World Cup. India in their squad have four spinners in the form of Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja. 

But, they have only brought two spinners in the operation. Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have been the proper spinners but conditions haven’t allowed India to operate all of their four spinners. Whatever plan was chalked out on paper hasn’t been executed in real due to the unpredictable nature of the pitches. However, Rahul Dravid has hinted that Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal will be considered in the Super Eight stage of the tournament. 

"It's tough to leave anyone out. I mean, all the four guys that we left out in those games, to be honest, are all quality players, quality performers. Any one of them actually coming into your squad, if you were to look at it, man for man will not make your squad a weaker squad,” said Dravid during the press conference. 

“It's just that the conditions and what we felt was the requirement in that particular venue made us go with that particular combination where we felt that there wasn't a huge role for spin and it was more a pace bowlers kind of conditions. And we also wanted to ensure that we had the depth on those tricky kind of wickets if and when required. So that's what we went there with," he said.

"Here it might be different obviously without giving too much away certainly it might be slightly different here we might need to feel the need that we might need an extra spinner and then certainly someone like Kuldeep or Yuzi with their quality and their skill do come into play and do become really big factors for us and that is the thinking in which why they have been selected because we knew that conditions could be potentially different in each of the different islands or each of the different countries," said Dravid.