The last time Rahul was in South Africa, in 2018, he scored the beginning of the worst phase of his career. Six months since a fortunate rest gave him a second chance, he has ran quickly towards the top.
When KL Rahul was the last in South Africa, with the test team of India in 2018, he little knew he would mark the beginning of the most difficult phase of him. In four entries, the racing sequence read: 10, 4, 0 and 16. It was the first time that Rahul had been found to fail. Until then, if he was not elaborating centuries, he was hitting the fifties, he had six people in seven entrances against Australia at home in 2017.
But South Africa, 2018, broke it. Later, that year, the average test of him having dropped almost 50 to just over 20, Rahul lost the place of him in the game XI during the Australian route.
From there, to assume the leadership of the team in the absence of Wounded Captain Virat Kohli in the second test of the Tour of South Africa, it is a testimony of a remarkable change in Rahul’s fortunes. All this, in the space of six months, and only because he obtained, deservedly, a fortunate rest after a couple of injuries left the space of the opener.
The ongoing test in Johannesburg is only the sixth party of Rahul after he received the rest of him in the first test of the 2021 tour of England and responded with a racing flood. For the tour of South Africa, with Rohit Sharma was discharged with an injury, Rahul was named Vice Captain. In the morning of the second test, with Kohli down with a rear spasm, Rahul had the honor of the capitation for the first time in a test.
In full contrast to the way he had begun the last tour of him, the opener has been the Batsman of detachable in the current series so far, starting with a hundred winner in the centurion last week. He followed him with a vigilant half a century on Monday.
We have as a future captain at the beginning of him, a couple of days ago, the National Selection Committee had also appointed him captain from the ODI series against South Africa in the continued absence of Sharma.
While announcing the 50 overs squad on Friday, president of selectors Chetan Sharma stated that Rahul was being prepared as a future captain.
“Yes, we’re definitely looking at KL Rahul at this time (as a leader),” Sharma said. “He is a player of all the formats and has a good experience of captaincy. He has demonstrated his leadership quality, this is what all the selectors think, and Rohit is not fit, we think that KL will be the best to handle the side. That is why we have demonstrated confidence in Him. We are preparing the side. “