Indore. Currently the Australian team is on a tour of India for the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Team India was announced for the last two matches in this tournament. Contrary to the expectation of the fans, KL Rahul remains in Team India, but he has lost the vice-captaincy. For keeping him in the team, former fast bowler Venkatesh Prasad got very angry while sharing the figures on social media. After this, former cricketer and commentator Akash Chopra has also shared some records in support of KL Rahul.
Let us tell you that Indian opener batsman KL Rahul is in the team, but it is believed that Shubman Gill will be preferred over him and he will be Rohit Sharma’s partner in the Indore Test. However, it is for coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma to decide. Rahul has scored 20, 17 and 1 in the series so far, due to which he is being criticized a lot. After 47 Tests, Rahul’s average has reached 33.44.
Talk about Rahul’s performance, even former cricketers have different opinions about KL Rahul. Most of the people believe that more chances given to Rahul are not good then some people like Akash Chopra have supported Rahul. There was a figure war between Venkatesh Prasad and Akash Chopra in support of Rahul. Akash spoke about the performances in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia.
There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test average of 30 overseas in 56 innings. He has scored 6 overseas centuries but followed it up with a string of low scores that’s why averaging 30. Let’s look at a few others pic.twitter.com/MAvHM01TcY
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) February 20, 2023
Significantly, former cricketer and commentator Aakash Chopra said with a screenshot of Rahul’s healthy average of 38.64 – Indian batsman did well in SENA countries, maybe that’s why selectors, coach, captain are backing KL Rahul. They have played 2 Tests at home during this period. Shows the best average among all Indian batsmen after Rohit Sharma and Washington Sundar (only 1 Test).
Indian batters in SENA countries. May be, this is the reason selectors/coach/captain are backing KLR. He’s played 2 Tests at home (ongoing BGT) during this period
No, I don’t need a BCCI role as a selector/coach
I don’t need any mentor, coaching role at any IPL team either ? pic.twitter.com/qV6qo6Plvt— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) February 21, 2023