KL Rahul, wicketkeeper middle-order batter for India on the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup flourished in his function with the bat as he scored 452 runs together with a quickest century for his nation in the match historical past. Rahul has completed properly at No.5 in the ODIs as he had no choice however to do properly given there was no place on the prime of the order with first Shikhar Dhawan after which Shubman Gill taking the second opener’s function. Now it appears that evidently Rahul is revelling in the middle-order job and desires to develop his horizons past ODIs.
As per a Cricbuzz report, Rahul desires to embrace the middle-order function in Test cricket and the IPL as properly to deliver his T20 worldwide career again on observe. The report said that Rahul is probably going to be most well-liked as wicketkeeper batter for two Test matches in South Africa forward of Ishan Kishan, who made his debut in the longest format in the Caribbean earlier in July this 12 months.
Rahul can have seven Test matches (if he performs all of them) and a full season of the IPL to show his value in the center order in codecs apart from ODI. Rahul final performed a Test match in February earlier this 12 months when he opened in opposition to Australia however was dropped following low scores in three innings. Rahul mustered simply 38 runs in three innings after which Shubman Gill took his place.
Similarly in T20Is, Rahul final performed in the T20 World Cup 2022 the place he had 4 single-digit scores in six matches whereas opening the innings. But beginning IPL 2024, he’ll bat in the middle-order, which was on the anticipated strains after Lucknow Super Giants made a commerce of Devdutt Padikkal, who is probably going to companion considered one of Quinton de Kock or Kyle Mayers on the prime.
Not simply Rahul, the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli additionally have not performed T20Is since final 12 months’s T20 World Cup and it appears that evidently IPL 2024 might need a large tole to play in deciding who will get on the aircraft to the Caribbean and USA for the marquee occasion subsequent June.
