Overview
- Kuldeep Yadav took a career‑best 10 for 120, with 4 for 70 and 6 for 50, in Yorkshire’s innings-and-106 win over Essex at Headingley on Thursday.
- He also scored 36 off 94 balls as Yorkshire posted 390 and then bowled Essex out for 171 and 113 to wrap up the match inside three days.
- The spell included two successive second‑innings wickets and a narrowly missed hat‑trick that helped turn the game decisively in Yorkshire’s favour.
- Yorkshire coach Anthony McGrath praised Kuldeep’s mindset and control and said the club would be willing to host him again, with the win all but securing their Division One status.
- Kuldeep’s showing comes after recent non‑selection by India and follows changes in the national spin picture, so selectors led by Gautam Gambhir now face fresh pressure to reconsider his place in Tests.