South Africa vs India: KL Rahul hints India will play 5 bowlers in 1st Test – It has helped us abroad

India’s newly-appointed Test vice-captain KL Rahul on Friday hinted India would possibly go in with 5 bowlers for the primary Test towards South Africa, beginning on Boxing Day on the Supersport Park in Centurion. Rahul mentioned India have gone in with a 5-bowler method in abroad situations and it has labored nicely for them to date.

As Rahul identified, Virat Kohli has usually pressured on enjoying 5 bowlers, particularly in abroad situations. In the World Test Championship ultimate, India performed 5 bowlers, together with each R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja within the XI. Throughout the 4-Test collection towards England in England, India benched Ashwin however nonetheless performed 5 bowlers with Jadeja being the lone spinner.However, with issues over the batting type of fairly a number of batters, together with captain Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteeshwar Pujara, India would have wished to take a look at an additional batter. Without senior batter and Rohit Sharma, who has been injured, India could have KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal on the high of the order.However, Rahul believes that enjoying 5 bowlers not simply offers the cushion to assault and choose up 20 wickets but additionally helps in managing the workload of the bowlers, particularly in abroad Tests.India have picked 2 spinners in Jayant Yadav and R Ashwin within the absence of Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel who have been dominated out on account of harm issues. They have picked 6 pacers within the crew, together with all-rounder Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Siraj.”I think most teams have started playing five bowlers and every team wants to pick up 20 wickets and that’s the only way you can win a Test match. We have used this tactic and it has helped us in away games,” Rahul informed the press throughout his tackle as vice-captain of the Test crew.”In every Test match that we have played away from India, it has helped us. So, workload also becomes slightly easier to manage that way with five bowlers and when you have that kind of quality, you might as well use them,” he added.India gazing ‘very, very tough’ resolution forward of 1st TestTaking part in 5 bowlers additionally provides to the choice headache for captain Virat Kohli and head coach Rahul Dravid as India might need the room to play solely one in every of Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer and Hanuma Vihari.While Rahane’s place within the facet is in query after he was sacked as vice-captain, Iyer has arrived in South Africa after having made merry in his debut Test collection. On the opposite hand, Vihari has hit 3 fifty-plus scores for India A towards South Africa A in a 3-match unofficial Test collection earlier this month.Rahul conceded that selecting one from the three batters for the No. 5 spot goes to be difficult.”It is a very, very difficult decision. Ajinkya has played crucial knocks for India including the one in Melbourne or in Lord’s recently. He has been a key player for us. Shreyas has taken his chances. Hanuma has also done the same for us. We will have a chat about that today or tomorrow,” he added.Full Schedule of South Africa vs India Test collection 1st Test, SuperSport Park, Centurion – December 26 to 302nd Test, Imperial Wanderers, Johannesburg – January 3 to 73rd Test, Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town – January 11 to fifteen