As India convincingly lost the first T20I against Sri Lanka, one in all the things that came as a giant surprise was KL Rahul's exclusion from the playing XI despite the fact that India is missing such a lot of star players.
He has been one of the most effective players since his debut in T20Is on 18th June 2016. he's among the three Indian batsmen to have scored a century in T20Is after Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma.
He has the most effective average among Indian players to have opened the batting on a minimum of 5 innings bettering averages of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, and Gautam Gambhir.
Virat Kohli has the most effective balls per boundary rate among the top five Indian players to have opened the batting on a minimum of five innings with 4.10 balls per boundary whereas KL Rahul isn’t so much behind with a rate of 5.89.
He has scored the most runs by an Indian player since his debut with 458 runs in eleven innings, 55 more than the second highest scorer MS Dhoni who has 403 runs for India since 18th June 2016.
KL Rahul conjointly has the best average among batsman to have scored over 400 runs in T20Is. He even averages over Virat Kohli marginally. Players with the highest average in T20Is. (minimum 400 runs)
With India facing Bangladesh in the second T20I, the boys in blue are going to be looking to regain powerfully and play up to their favorites tag. KL Rahul may well create a comeback into the side, if to not open, then perhaps a slot in a rather inexperienced middle order.
I , personally like K L Rahul’s batting , than any other batsman after Virat Kohli . For me , he is at par with Virat Kohli’s class , but his performances in the near future will determine if he is better batsman or not . He definitely is the next big thing of India , if handled properly .
I personally like K L Rahul’s batting , but I do not like to compare . But one thing is for sure ,K L Rahul has to be in the team .He needs to be given chances. Infact, he deserves those chances.I don’t think it will come at the cost of Rohit Sharma in the team . I think he would be given chances at 3 , until Rohit Sharma or Shikhar Dhawan perform miserably poor .
K L Rahul has been in tremendous touch and he has made batting look easy , while Rohit Sharma initially takes time and then goes blizzard . If India have both in the team , it is a privilege to India.
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