Ravi Shastri fires warning shot to under-fire KL Rahul as he is still struggling to find form and rhythm with the bat.
Ravi Shastri gave some advice to KL Rahul on how to improve his current lean run with the bat.
Star batsman KL Rahul needs to alter his batting style, according to former India head coach Ravi Shastri, in order to regain his golden touch. Commenting on the present First Test match between India and Bangladesh, Shastri believes it’s past time for Rahul to pull up his socks and find his lost spark.
Rahul’s form has declined; earlier this year, while India was touring South Africa, he scored his last Test century. The player was lucky enough to be included in the starting lineup against Bangladesh despite suffering an injury during the home series against England earlier this year.
When India captain Rohit Sharma concluded the innings with an overall lead of 514, Rahul was undefeated at 22 after managing a score of 16 in the first innings against Bangladesh.
Even though Shastri believes Rahul has limitless potential, he recommended Rahul shift his perspective because it might make him a different player.
“KL Rahul needs to realise that he has got much of talent. The day he realises that and comes out with a mindset and thinking in that fashion. He will be a different player,” Shastri said on-air during the match.
Sanjay Manjrekar, a former batter for India, recently asserted that Rahul’s problem is solely temperamental. Manjrekar attempted to describe Rahul’s current phase by using an example from himself.
“This has been the KL Rahul story. It’s amazing that he plays a brilliant innings at the Test level and the next two three innings it seems like he has got a pair in the last Test. Even when you saw him bat today, it almost seemed like an innings without purpose. That can happen, it happened to me in the second half of my career where everything was internal,” Manjrekar said
“I went in to bat just thinking about my technique and am I going to play the ball well. Imagining a certain kind of delivery coming my way. And I’ve got to play instead of going to your instinct as a batter which I think all the other Indian batters practice that is about getting runs. Even if you’re defending looking for ones and twos,” he added.
Rahul has played in 50 Test matches and has amassed some impressive hundreds of runs. However, his average of merely 34 is a major worry for Manjrekar.
“That is more a temperamental problem for KL Rahul that has plagued him for 50 Test matches because the number that he has. He’s got some brilliant hundreds but an average of 34. He’s got hundreds, not one or two, quite a few and in testing conditions. But the average of 34 tells you about his temperament and that we got to look at it today as well,” he added.