India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir and Ok L Rahul, at a coaching session in Bengaluru just lately.
| Picture Credit score: Ok. Murali Kumar
India head coach Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday (October 23, 2024) threw his weight behind under-fire batter Ok.L. Rahul, saying it is the workforce administration’s opinion that issues and never the criticism that he’s going through on social media.
Rahul was dismissed for a duck within the first innings of the opening Check in opposition to New Zealand in Bengaluru and made 12 within the second essay because the hosts misplaced the sport by eight wickets.
However it seems Gambhir is able to give him a protracted rope.
“Social media doesn’t matter one bit. What the workforce administration and management group thinks is essential. He’s batting very well, had a good knock in Kanpur (in opposition to Bangladesh) on a troublesome wicket,” Gambhir instructed reporters on the eve of the second Check when requested about Rahul’s place within the workforce.
Rahul had managed a 68-run knock within the first innings of the Kanpur Check in opposition to Bangladesh.
“I’m positive he can be figuring out that he has to attain massive runs and he has functionality of scoring runs. That is why he has been backed by the workforce…In the end, everyone seems to be judged. Worldwide cricket is all about being judged,” Gambhir added.
Tough alternative
However, Sarfaraz Khan’s maiden hundred within the first Check has made the job tougher for Rahul, and the Karnataka man will look to get his act proper within the second match ought to he play.
New Zealand lead the three-match sequence following their eight-wicket victory in Bengaluru.
It was a humbling expertise for the mighty hosts who entered the sequence after finishing a 2-0 sweep of Bangladesh together with profitable the Kanpur Check after a majority of the sport was affected by rain.
“Cricket, sports activities are a giant leveller. If we have now loved days like Kanpur we needed to endure what occurred in Bengaluru. We did not present any intention to bat out the rest of the 2 and a half days,” Gambhir mentioned of the defeat in Bengaluru the place India had been shot for 46 within the first innings, their lowest-ever whole at dwelling.
Revealed – October 23, 2024 12:02 pm IST
