He averages 30 in 56 abroad innings: Venkatesh Prasad fires recent salvo at KL Rahul’s amid lean run

Former India seamer Venkatesh Prasad fired a recent salvo at struggling India opener KL Rahul for his inconsistent performances within the longest format of the sport, stating the batter’s modest abroad report and evaluating it with residence/abroad statistics of gamers akin to Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill and Ajinkya Rahane, three of whom have turned out for India as openers in Test cricket.

Rahul’s final century in Tests got here in December 2021, in opposition to South Africa at Centurion. His horror run with the willow in worldwide cricket continued within the second Test of the continued collection for the Border-Gavaskar trophy, at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley stadium, because the right-hander might combination simply 18 runs throughout two innings.

Chasing simply 115 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead within the collection, followers would have anticipated Rahul and Rohit Sharma to romp residence with out a lot trouble. However, Rahul fell to the spin of Nathan Lyon, who trapped him in entrance of the stumps for only one run.

“There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test avg of 30 overseas in 56 innings. He has scored 6 overseas centuries but followed it up with a string of low scores that’s why averaging 30. Let’s look at a few others,” tweeted Prasad on Monday.

He introduced up veteran Shikhar’s stable abroad information, stating his common of “nearly 40, with 5 100s”.

“Shikhar Dhawan has the best overseas average amongst recent openers. Avg of nearly 40 with 5 100’s. Though he too hasn’t been consistent in Test but had Outstanding centuries in SL and NZ, plus a much better home record,” the previous India seamer wrote in one other tweet.

He additionally introduced up Mayank Agarwal, who as opener has fared exceedingly effectively in residence circumstances.

“Mayank Agarwal after the brilliant start in Aust did struggle in away test matches. But he has by far the best home record. Avg of nearly 70 in 13 innings,2 double 100’s & a 150 on a Wankhede pitch where everyone else struggled. Great against spin & had a prolific domestic season,” Prasad tweeted.

He additional identified that younger opener Shubman Gill averages 37 in his temporary abroad run in Tests, with the knock of 91 in opposition to Australia at The Gabba in Brisbane being “one of the best overseas fourth innings”.

“Shubhman Gill has had a brief international career and in 14 overseas innings averages 37, with his 91 at Gabba amongst the best overseas 4th innings and has been in outstanding form,” he tweeted.

He additionally pointed to veteran Ajinkya Rahane’s abroad report, saying he averages “over 40 overseas in 50 Test matches”.

“And if overseas performance is a criteria, Ajinkya Rahane, despite being out of form and also inconsistent before being dropped had one of the best overseas Test record, averaging over 40 overseas in 50 test matches. Was out of form and dropped …,” the previous India seamer added in one other tweet.

He added that after being retained for the ultimate two Tests of the continued collection for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rahul’s finest probability of coming again to type is the third Test at Indore or else he ought to play county cricket, carry out effectively and earn again his place within the nationwide aspect.

“But with KL being retained for the remaining 2 test matches, if he is picked in the playing 11, Indore is his best chance of coming back to form and silencing critics like me. Else needs to play county cricket, perform well and make a comeback in the Test side,” Prasad tweeted.

The opener had a horror 2022. After lacking almost six months of motion, Rahul blew cold and warm ever since Asia Cup 2022. He did rating some half-centuries however drew criticism from followers and veteran India cricketers for his lack of attacking intent and incapability to ship in huge matches.

Rahul performed 4 Tests final 12 months, aggregating 137 runs at a mean of 17.12, with only one fifty. In 10 ODIs final 12 months, he scored 251 runs at a mean of 27.88, with two half-centuries and a finest rating of 73. In 16 T20Is in 2022, he scored 434 runs at a mean of 28.93 and 6 half-centuries, with a finest rating of 62. Overall in 30 matches final 12 months, he aggregated 822 runs at a mean of 25.68, with 9 half-centuries.

This 12 months, he has scored a paltry 38 runs in three Test innings. Overall, he has totaled simply 148 runs throughout 5 worldwide matches at a mean of 29.60, with one half-century and the very best rating of 64*.

India’s squad for the ultimate two Test matches and three ODIs in opposition to Australia was introduced on Sunday.

India’s Test squad for the third and fourth Test in opposition to Australia: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Okay L Rahul, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav and Jaydev Unadkat.

India’s ODI squad in opposition to Australia: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Okay L Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya (Vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umran Malik, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel and Jaydev Unadkat.

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