The 27-year-old Indian cricketer KL Rahul’s bad patch is not going away, especially in the Test format. The veteran Indian Test specialist opener Wasim Jaffer has felt a little bit disappointed with KL Rahul.
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Many believe that KL Rahul is one of the top talented cricketers. In the last few years, he is very consistent in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as he finished one of the top three run-scorers in the last two seasons. However, he hasn’t maintained that consistency in his international career yet.
The right-batsman performed much better in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. In fact, he was enough consistent in that tournament as he scored 361 runs in nine innings with an average of 45.12. He hit one century and two half-centuries in that big prestigious event.
But he has failed to maintain that form in the recently concluded Caribbean tour. In that tour, he played one T20I at Providence and two Tests along with one three-day tour game.
He scored 20 runs in the T20I match, while scored 36 runs in the tour game. During the Test series, he scored 44, 38, 13 and 6 runs respectively.
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Like many other cricket fans and experts, Wasim Jaffer has also felt disappointed with KL Rahul’s recent performances. Jaffer believes that Rahul has so much ability and that’s why he has already scored centuries in all three formats.
The veteran cricketer said, “I feel a little bit disappointed with K L Rahul because he has got so much ability, he is one of the guys (players) who has got 100 in all three formats (of the game).”
KL Rahul’s mode of dismissals make me a bit disappointed – Wasim Jaffer
Jaffer is feeling that Rahul’s recent mode of dismissals is very softly. He further added that Rahul was getting more and more chances due to his abilities.
Jaffer added, “And his mode of dismissals make me a bit disappointed because he gets out very softly at times. He has got a lot of ability and that is why he is getting so many chances, because people believe that he is going to come good.”
Wasim Jaffer is very surprised with KL Rahul’s consistently poor batting form in recent times.
Jaffer said, “The way he gets out and the way he does not get that many runs, that surprises me…I feel somewhere he is missing those puzzles (sic) in his jigsaw.”
Since his international debut in December 2014, KL Rahul has played 36 Tests, 23 ODIs and 28 T20Is. In his international career, Rahul has scored 2,006 Test runs (average 34.58), 704 ODI runs (average 39.11) and 899 T20I runs (average 42.80).