Rahul's honeymoon period is over in tests

[zen]

Oh boy! .... another failure at Adelaide .... Should this be his last test?

 

Hazlewood to Rahul, OUT, loose drive and that's been taken at third slip! This is full and gets it to shape away a touch, Rahul enticed to drive, no feet movement and ends up getting a thick edge that has been superbly taken by Finch with his fingers pointing upwards. Rahul's second Australia tour has started quite poorly, and to a poor stroke.

KL Rahul c Finch b Hazlewood 2 (8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

[Straight Drive]

Failed again. Drop him for the sake of Indian team. Playing totally out of form players overseas is a blunder.2 runs..Seriously...

[Tendulkar1996]

How much longer will this tailender have to be endured i dont know..

[Vk1]

2 hours ago, Straight Drive said:

Failed again. Drop him for the sake of Indian team. Playing totally out of form players overseas is a blunder.2 runs..Seriously...

Persisting with this guy at the cost of the other guy who had scored tons of runs in domestic. 

[Straight Drive]

1 hour ago, Vk1 said:

Persisting with this guy at the cost of the other guy who had scored tons of runs in domestic. 

Openers contribution is very important and when we have two openers who are failing series after series, change is required.  Shame Prithvi Shaw got injured.  Maybe he would have shown the seniors how to bat.

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

End this torture. Send him back to domestic cricket where he belongs.

[Vijy]

On 10/14/2018 at 12:29 PM, zen said:

Apart from Agarwal, who else is a promising undebuted opener in Ind? 

maybe panchal, but he seems to be out of the reckoning these days.

[Straight Drive]

Scored 7 runs for Australia. Dropped Starc on 1 run.  Scored 2 with the bat. Already -5 

[velu]

rahul after his honeymoon

 

 

 

[rtmohanlal]

it is a shame that we can't find reliable variety options w.r.t opening, preferably a left-right  &  defensive-aggressive combination.

Rahul has been  far  from adequate for the post.....no technique or temperament for opening...

[Frustrated]

I was wondering how come this joke of an opener is still out there in the middle.  But alas !!

[Straight Drive]

13 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

I was wondering how come this joke of an opener is still out there in the middle.  But alas !!

imo most luckiest Indian opener and probably the only one to have played 32 tests in spite of averaging just 37 ?  Is there anyone else who did as averagely as him and still played more test than him as opener ?

[Frustrated]

3 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

imo most luckiest Indian opener and probably the only one to have played 32 tests in spite of averaging just 37 ?  Is there anyone else who did as averagely as him and still played more test than him as opener ?

And some ICFers blame the mumbai lobby for everything.  Wonder how no one talks about Karnataka Lobby.   Or Even Tamil Nadu lobby (M Vijay is also among the world's worst openers in tests right now. He won't even make it to the Bangladesh playing eleven).   What wrong Mayank Agarwal/Shubham Gill have done, I hv no clue. 

[Straight Drive]

9 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

And some ICFers blame the mumbai lobby for everything.  Wonder how no one talks about Karnataka Lobby.   Or Even Tamil Nadu lobby (M Vijay is also among the world's worst openers in tests right now. He won't even make it to the Bangladesh playing eleven).   What wrong Mayank Agarwal/Shubham Gill have done, I hv no clue. 

Chetan Chauhan beats him as worst opener in Indian cricket with 31 + matches. 39 matches, average 31.83. Anyone else?

 

Even i was one who got on to the talk of Virat Kohli beuing insecure of this so called batting great.  

 

Agarwal has issues with fast paced bowling but he atleast deserves a chance.  Shubman Gill might make the team once these two failures are replaced.

 

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by Straight Drive

[Straight Drive]

Del

 

Edited December 8, 2018 by Straight Drive

[Vk1]

Hope Rahul doesn't think that he's there to give aggressive starts like Sehwag did. He should look to cross atleast 50 and then play the attacking shots. 

[jf1gp_1]

he first showed he can bat like an opener and then after doing all the hard work he showed he can also bat like an a$$. 

 

All runs after 25 were bonus. 

[G_B_]

valuable contribution today

[rtmohanlal]

this guy just doesn't have the technique and temperament to play long inns on difficult pitches. 44 today was a good knock, but these 40s  won't impact matches any way

[King Tendulkar]

Guys.  Hold your horses

 

Lets see after the match

 

This 44 after match finished maybe seen as crucial knock in a great win!