KL Rahul was over-careful in his methodology on a pitch that should have been genuinely taken advantage of. Maybe he was lacking in certainty.
In the second ODI against Zimbabwe last month, KL Rahul succumbed to only one run while opening the batting.
Rahul was getting back to activity in the wake of going through a medical procedure for a games
hernia in Germany in June.
He was batting interestingly at the Harare Sports Club after almost three months. All he wanted was to invest energy in the center, become acclimated to batting against worldwide bowlers after a long break and get into the notch.
However, that was not to be as he endured just five conveyances.
In the third ODI, he again opened with Shikhar Dhawan, scoring 30 however those were not the familiar 30 runs he has scored.
His unsteady thump came from 46 conveyances and finished when he played Brad Evans onto his stumps. Short on certainty, Rahul tumbled to a first-ball duck against Pakistan in the Asia Cup opener, cleaving youthful Naseem Shah onto his stumps while endeavoring a level shot.
Rahul, who has the uncommon differentiation of scoring 100 years in every one of the three organizations, needed to invest energy at the wrinkle and score hurries to get his certainty back.
Be that as it may, against Hong Kong, whose bowlers were neither risky nor experienced enough against such top-notch batsmen, Rahul invested energy. However, he invested an excessive amount of energy in the center, consuming a lot of conveyances that his scoring rate was an unsatisfactory 92.30.
KL Rahul’s methodology
Rahul was over-careful in his methodology on a pitch that should have been taken full advantage of. Maybe he was lacking in certainty.
Just Rahul battled on a superficial level and got some margin to settle down against Hong Kong, scoring at a sluggish speed that put different batsmen under tension.
Rahul might have posted on his virtual entertainment account after the match, which India won by 40 runs, that he felt satisfied to have gotten back to shape by scoring 36.
However, how he scored those runs was careful, dead delayed by T20 norms and unquestionably not the sort that Rahul is known to play.
Rahul, the bad habit skipper of the Indian T20 group, has played better thumps at a quicker rate. He might well put it on the pitch and term it as sluggish that controlled his shot-production capacities.
In any case, on similar surface, his captain Rohit Sharma scored 21 in only 13 conveyances, venturing out and hitting right-arm medium-pace bowler Haroon Arshad straight into the sightscreen for a six and went on the front foot to crush off-spinner Ehsan Khan through the covers for four.
Rohit was scattered by a sluggish conveyance and not by the gradualness of the pitch.