‘I Believe That he Should be…’: Gautam Gambhir Reacts on KL Rahul’s Slump in Form Amid Backlash From Venkatesh Prasad

The present scorching subject in Indian cricket is KL Rahul ans his stoop in type. The India Test opener has been underperforming for 2 collection now. He failed in Bangladesh and has had poor outings vs Australia in the primary two Tests of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. Rahul’s critics, together with Venkatesh Prasad, consider that he has bought extra possibilities than others which clearly reveals a bias of the present administration and the selectors. In numerous twitter threads, Prasad has blasted Rahul and the selectors for persevering with to offer Rahul alternatives whereas others like Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan are denied even one match to show their price in Test cricket. 

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Gautam Gambhir, who’s mentor of Lucknow Super Giants, the IPL aspect Rahul leads has come out now to lend some help to Rahul. Gambhir feels that like Rohit Sharma, who as soon as was struggling in worldwide cricket, Rahul too needs to be given the house to fail earlier than he finds his peal. While chatting with ANI Gambhir mentioned: “Sometimes you back someone`s talent. I applaud Rohit Sharma that he is backing him. Rohit also went through a similar situation in his initial days when he was unable to score a lot of runs. But he got plenty of chances and now sees where he is, so he knows about KL Rahul and I support Rohit`s decision. We are up by 2-0 in this series, not down by two games. I believe that he should be given a chance in the next two tests and he will do better.”

There is a view that KL Rahul has an excellent abroad Test file. But stats communicate in any other case. He has a check avg of 30 abroad in 56 innings. He has scored 6 abroad centuries however adopted it up with a string of low scores that is why averaging 30. Let’s take a look at a number of others pic.twitter.com/MAvHM01TcY
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) February 20, 2023

Team India administration has already said that they will again Rahul to the hilt. Dravid had earlier mentioned {that a} dangerous part comes in profession of any cricketer and Rahul goes via the identical tough patch. Dravid is bound Rahul will hit type quickly. However, it’s the inconsistency which is an enormous concern with Rahul, who final scored an Test hundred s South Africa in Centurion.