Cricket News: So far, Rahul has scored 38 runs in three innings against Australia.
KL Rahul has had a difficult time in international cricket. He has delivered particularly poor performances in Tests, failing to make a half-century in the last ten innings. Rahul’s poor record has prompted numerous former cricketers to demand that he be withdrawn from the playing XI immediately. Incidentally, Rahul has 38 runs in three innings of the series against Australia.
Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has also slammed the Indian opener, claiming that he does not deserve to be in the squad with Shubman Gill. In the last two months, Gill has been on fire across all platforms. In the first Test against Bangladesh in December, he scored a century.
He continued his momentum in ODIs, scoring two hundred and a double hundred in January. The 23-year-old also shattered the record for the highest individual score by an Indian in T20Is when he hit 126 off 63 balls against New Zealand earlier this month.
Despite his amazing run in international cricket, Gill was left out of the starting XI for the first two Tests of the ongoing series against Australia. Meanwhile, Latif slammed KL Rahul and accused the Indian team’s management of favouritism in wanting to play him.
“Ye (Rahul) deserve hi nahi karte Shubman Gill ke hote hue. Bahaana kuch bhi nahi hai, bas inko khilaana hai. (Rahul does not even deserve a berth in the Eleven while Shubman Gill is available. There is no justification here. The management only wants to play him (Rahul),” stated Latif on his YouTube channel.
The BCCI removed Rahul’s vice-captaincy due to his poor performance in Test cricket. Former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh commented on the situation, saying that now that he is no longer a vice-captain, the management will find it easy to drop him.
The VC tag is missing, implying that Shubman Gill would open for Harbhajan Singh.
“When you’re not the vice-captain, it’s simpler for management and selectors to bench you. No matter what kind of performance you put in as a vice-captain, you’re still one of the eleven guys who will play in the game,” Harbhajan stated to India Today.
“But, the VC tag is missing. KL Rahul is a quality player who is going through a dry spell in which he is not getting runs. That is something we are all aware of. But I’m confident he’ll come through with the bat. But, the VC tag is missing, which indicates Shubman Gill will start with Rohit Sharma,” he went on to say.
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