Kuldeep Yadav hailed his captain, Rohit Sharma, for his leadership qualities and ability to manage all four spinners in the 2025 edition of the Champions Trophy. India boasted a spin quartet of Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravindra Jadeja, and Axar Patel, all of whom played pivotal roles in India's triumph in the Champions Trophy in Dubai.

"It's very difficult to manage four spinners, and the way he managed, it was amazing to see," Kuldeep told Sky Sports Cricket.

"When four spinners are playing together, it is very hard to rotate any of them. Obviously the planning was going on, we played our last game in Dubai on March 4 and we got plenty, like four or five days of break and then we had a chat how we go about this game.

"The plan for me and Varun was to bowl to the new batter. We wanted to finish Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel's over before Mitchell Santner and Michael Bracewell come to bat," he said.

Varun Chakravarthy (2/45) and Kuldeep Yadav (2/40) spun a web around the Kiwis that the Black Caps failed to come out of.

The left-arm chinaman bowler also explained how bowling in tandem with the fellow spinners has helped him during the tournament.

"I've been bowling with Varun for the last five or six years, you know, we were part of KKR. He had a fantastic domestic season and then he played T20Is for India, he has been brilliant," he said.

Kuldeep also revealed the role captain Rohit Sharma gave him. He said: "In the last game when Head was batting, he (Rohit Sharma) thought probably I was the better option against him and he wanted me to bowl and get him out. If he could have hit for a couple of sixes, he was fine with it. Today, obviously, Varun got the first wicket of Will Young, and I bowled in the 11th over. I mean, Rachin was batting really well. It was the planning, to be very honest."

When asked if Rohit ever said it was okay if he went for runs to just get me wickets, Kuldeep said, "100 per cent, because he believes that I'm an attacking spinner, and he wants me to create some magic on the field. He wants me to take wickets in the middle overs."

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