KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer throughout South Africa Test collection© AFP
As India’s tour of South Africa concludes, there stay loads of questions that the selectors and the crew administration are left to reply. The performances of Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Prasidh Krishna left a lot to need whereas a couple of others managed to ship in fragments. As far because the No. 5 debate goes within the Test crew, former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar feels it is a place that will likely be determined between KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer as soon as wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant is totally match and able to return.
With Pant nonetheless working his solution to make a comeback to the nationwide crew, Rahul was given the wicket-keeper’s function, making him the crew’s go-to participant behind the stumps throughout the three codecs. But, Manjrekar feels that is solely the case until Rishabh is unavailable.
“I think he’s a guy who cares about every format. You know how he’s built to value every opportunity that he gets after he got that 100. You know, I am looking two years from now and I thought he’s really competing with Shreyas Iyer for a batting position in the middle order because the moment Rishabh Pant is fit, he becomes your keeper batter, and there’s great quality to Rishabh Pant batting and keeping as well,” he stated in a chat on Star Sports.
Rahul did rating a century on the tour of South Africa, reaching the triple-digit rating within the first Test. But, he struggled to get sufficient help from the opposite finish as India misplaced the match inside the first three days.
“That innings was just incredible (First Test hundred). Unfortunately, you know, Dean Elgar got a 180, they got 400 because we at the time thought that 260 was gonna be enough. And that was the moment if India could have latched onto, there would have been a series win in South Africa,” he added.
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