Gavaskar feels KL Rahul has lost his confidence and should be dropped from the Indian side.
KL Rahul (Photo: AFP)
Former Indian batting great Sunil Gavaskar feels upper order batsman KL Rahul should be dropped from playing XI if he continues his poor run with the bat in the second innings of the ongoing Test match between India and Australia.
On the opening day of the first Test match, KL Rahul once again disappointed with the bat as the opener only managed to score two runs before getting dismissed by Josh Hazlewood in Adelaide on Thursday.
Gavaskar feels KL Rahul has lost his confidence and should be dropped from the Indian side.
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“KL Rahul should be dropped from playing XI if he fails to score in second innings. Because he has no more self-confidence left in him. There was a time when he was a very confident player, but now he doesn’t look so. There is a tentativeness, a certainty in him about the ball outside the off stump, about his shots, he plays it across the line as well. He has not bothered to correct the faults in his techniques,” Gavaskar said.
Speaking about his batting technique, Gavaskar told Aaj Tak, “When you shuffle from leg stump to leg stump, you know the placement of the stump, but when a tall batsman like him shuffles towards off stump off his backfoot then the front foot will go a lot outside the off stump and then you play the shot outside the off stump you are liable to get out at slip. He had made this mistake in England and he making the same mistake now as well and only he knows why is he doing it.”
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