5 reasons why Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal should be India's front-line spinners in ODIs

#3 Genuine wicket-taking threat in middle-overs

Yuzvendra Chahal has picked up 14 wickets from 8 ODIs

One of the major advantages of preferring wrist-spinners stems from their discernible capacity of picking up crucial wickets at various stages of the game. With the vast majority of modern-day limited-overs affairs being played on flat tracks across the globe, leg-spinners can extract turn on even docile surfaces and consequently produce valuable breakthroughs in the middle-overs phase.

While Chahal has picked up 14 wickets from 8 ODIs at an average of 21.07 and accounted for 14 wickets from 7 games at an average of 15.50, Kuldeep has taken 13 wickets from 8 ODIs at an average of 20.77.

The chinaman bowler also showed his versatility when he ran through Australia's top-order on a non-responsive pitch in the Dharamsala Test earlier this year.