IND vs AUS: Former Indian quick bowler Venkatesh Prasad has as soon as once more focused out-of-form Indian opener KL Rahul. Prasad, who has been vocal about Rahul’s battle to attain runs in current occasions, has now focused his overseas efficiency. Prasad has additionally hoped for the opener to carry out in India vs Australia’s third Test in Indore.
The former Indian bowler has come out to be a robust critic of Rahul, who’s underfiring in current outings for India. Rahul has 4 tons in SENA nations and is the third visiting opener on this planet to have tons in Australia, South Africa and England. But he averages round 30 away from residence and Prasad focused this in his current tweets.
Prasad stated that Rahul’s common in 56 overseas innings is sort of 30 and has adopted his tons with a string of low scores. “There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test avg 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,” he wrote on Twitter.
Notably, the previous Indian bowler in contrast Rahul’s numbers with Rahane’s stats. “And if overseas performance is a criteria, Ajinkya Rahane despite being out of form and also inconsistent before being dropped had one of the best overseas Test records, averaging over 40 overseas in 50 test matches. Was out of form and dropped,” he added.
Prasad additionally hoped for the Indian opener to bounce again within the third Test in Indore. “But with KL being retained for the remaining 2 test matches, if he is picked in the playing 11, Indore is his best chance of coming back to form and silencing critics like me. Else needs to play county cricket, perform well and make a comeback in the Test side,” he stated.
The 30-year-old Rahul has made simply 38 runs within the three innings within the first two check matches towards Australia. Rahul final scored fifty 11 innings again towards South Africa in Johannesburg. His final hundred got here 13 innings again towards in Centurion.
