Three low cost dismissals can’t change the fact that KL Rahul is India’s ‘best T20 batsman’ and it received’t be lengthy that one shot or one innings will get him again to his best, batting coach Vikram Rathour mentioned, promising assist for the struggling opener.
Rahul bought out with out scoring in two of his final three innings whereas he managed only one run within the series-opener. Part of it may very well be attributed to no sport time for the reason that finish of T20 sequence in Australia early December.
“Anybody can have a lean phase and KL has been our best batsman in T20 format. He is averaging 40 plus with a strike rate of 145 and 3 failures doesn’t change the fact that he is the best batsman we have in this format,” Rathour mentioned, after India misplaced the third T20 International on Tuesday (March 16).
“This is the time when we need to support him and I am absolutely sure he will come back out of the lean phase,” the batting coach spoke in the identical vein as Kohli did on the presentation ceremony.
However, Rathour did agree that rustiness may very well be a cause and all it could take is one good shot to get again into the groove.
“I agree they do tend to get rusty when they are sitting out but only thing we can do is to provide them practice. They are having a lot of net sessions and even on middle (centre strips),” he mentioned.
“That’s all they can do and we can just hope that one innings or one shot and they will be back in form. People like KL Rahul.”
India have now misplaced two video games batting first and based on the previous Test opener the pitches on supply over the past three matches have been difficult.
“It is a difficult surface to assess what will be a good score and the bounce makes it tricky when you start batting. The ball stops and we saw some variable bounce. So you can’t assess how many runs will be a good score,” Rathour mentioned.
“Every game that we have played was on different surface and as a team it is tough. We have had 3 games now and next game hopefully we can do better if we bat first.”
