KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer throughout South Africa Take a look at sequence© AFP
As India’s tour of South Africa concludes, there stay loads of questions that the selectors and the crew administration are left to reply. The performances of Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Prasidh Krishna left a lot to need whereas a couple of others managed to ship in fragments. So far as the No. 5 debate goes within the Take a look at crew, former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar feels it is a place that will likely be determined between KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer as soon as wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant is totally match and able to return.
With Pant nonetheless working his method to make a comeback to the nationwide crew, Rahul was given the wicket-keeper’s position, making him the crew’s go-to participant behind the stumps throughout the three codecs. However, Manjrekar feels that is solely the case until Rishabh is unavailable.
“I feel he is a man who cares about each format. You know the way he is constructed to worth each alternative that he will get after he received that 100. You already know, I’m wanting two years from now and I assumed he is actually competing with Shreyas Iyer for a batting place within the center order as a result of the second Rishabh Pant is match, he turns into your keeper batter, and there is nice high quality to Rishabh Pant batting and maintaining as properly,” he stated in a chat on Star Sports activities.
Rahul did rating a century on the tour of South Africa, reaching the triple-digit rating within the first Take a look at. However, he struggled to get sufficient assist from the opposite finish as India misplaced the match inside the first three days.
“That innings was simply unbelievable (First Take a look at hundred). Sadly, you recognize, Dean Elgar received a 180, they received 400 as a result of we on the time thought that 260 was gonna be sufficient. And that was the second if India may have latched onto, there would have been a sequence win in South Africa,” he added.
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