Despite being in top form, left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav didn't get the continuous opportunities and was eventually sidelined because it seems he was not in the 'good books' of the then Team India captain and coach, says his childhood coach Kapil Dev Pandey.

Yadav has had a rough ride in the past two years, after a five-wicket haul in Sydney, when head coach Ravi Shastri had termed him as India's No 1 spinner in overseas conditions in 2019.