New Delhi, Oct 20 (PTI) India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has always been unwavering in his cricketing conviction, and picking multi-skilled players to shore up the batting till number eight is primary among them.

So it becomes doubly difficult for a Kuldeep Yadav, with 181 wickets from 113 games, to fit in the head coach’s scheme of things at the moment.

Only three 50-over games in Australia isn’t big enough sample size to reach a definitive conclusion on whether Gambhir’s punt (not Shubman Gill’s) of playing three all-rounders is the way to go forward on those tracks, which offer both bounce and seam movement.

With India scoring only 136 in a game featuring multiple rain stoppages, it would also be unfair to judge the bowling unit, which got very little runs to defend.

But if India p

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