dravid co drafted him into team straight after injury pant ponting told him he will play all matchesnew delhi kuldeep yadavs career is already one of the most intriguing stories in indian cricket a trump card till the 2019 world cup he fell off the radar of the indian team management and subsequently lost his place at kolkata knight riders toothis ipl season in delhi capitals colours he seems to have turned a corner its obvious he is enjoying his cricket again i am enjoying my bowling after a long time kuldeep unapologetically declared during the postmatch presentation on wednesdaywhen he suffered a gruesome knee injury in dubai ahead of the second leg of ipl last year the darkest phase of his career just got darker the turnaround however happened when the new team management under head coach rahul dravid and bowling coach paras mhambrey decided to bring him straight back into the whiteball and redball squad during the home seasonthe idea was to listen to him give him space and get him back into a good mental space the present team management didnt want to get into what the previous management had told kuldeep or dealt with it dravid wanted to see firsthand what kuldeep was going through and make sure the potential wasnt missedhe was kept in the team to give him the confidence that he still belonged there and that could be translated by giving him an odd game bowling quicker through the air was the only bit of cricket skills that was discussed with himand it continued at capitals when he came into delhi capitals setup he needed a lot of confidence he had not played the last season and had a couple of poor seasons rishabh i and ricky gave him confidence during the practice games he has been told that he will play all the matches and he didnt have to worry about the performances now he can entirely focus on his bowling if he is taking wickets it becomes easier for me to bowl in tandem with him axar patel his spin partner at capitals said on wednesdaykuldeeps slide was widely linked to ms dhonis retirement from international cricket dhonis inputs from behind the stumps had been critical to his growth at capitals he has found a mature rishabh pant leading the team from behind the stumps a lot of the credit goes to rishabh for backing me the way he backs us bowlers even when we go for runs thats a huge positive he keeps guiding me to plot dismissals kuldeep saiddelhi capitals and the team india management has dragged him back to a happy place overthinking about his cricket has taken a backseat i dont watch videos now because i have played against all of these batters when you are very confused you watch videos to see what a batter might do i am just focusing on how i feel he statedas his good mate yuzvendra chahal goes about