Captain Rahul May miss the 2nd Ban v Ind Test Match

[spiritb2]

 

India could be without both their first-choice openers in the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka, with KL Rahul taking a blow to his hand while batting in the nets on the eve of the match. While India batting coach Vikram Rathour indicated on Wednesday that Rahul's injury wasn't serious, he did not confirm whether he is certain to start the match.

 

"It doesn't [look serious]," Rathour said in his pre-match press conference. "He seems to be fine. Hopefully he'll be okay. The doctors are looking at it, but hopefully he'll be okay."

 

Rathour, incidentally, was delivering throwdowns to Rahul when he took the blow to his hand towards the end of his nets session. He was seen rubbing the injured area, and was attended to by the team doctor.

 

Rahul is also India's captain in the absence of Rohit Sharma, who missed the first Test in Chattogram and was also ruled out of the Dhaka Test, having failed to recover fully from a thumb injury that he picked up during the ODI series that preceded the Tests.

 

If Rahul is unavailable on Thursday, vice-captain Cheteshwar Pujara will likely take over the captaincy. Rahul's place at the top of the order, meanwhile, could go to a debutant in Abhimanyu Easwaran, who initially came into the squad as Rohit's standby.

 

Abhimanyu's selection came on the back of a prolific India A tour of Bangladesh. Having just come off a 50-overs century for Bengal against Services in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Abhimanyu made back-to-back hundreds in the four-day games against Bangladesh A in Cox's Bazar and Sylhet.

The blow to Rahul's hand is the latest in a series of injuries India have suffered in recent weeks.

 

Jasprit Bumrah is a long-term absentee with a stress fracture of the back, while as many as seven players were ruled out of the ODI series at various points - including first-choice Test players Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami.

 

India lost that ODI series 2-1, and lead the two-Test series 1-0 after a 188-run win in Chattogram.

Edited December 21, 2022 by spiritb2

[Clarke]

This guy will be injured every night post marriage. Not that one should mind it.

[R!TTER]

WT eff is wrong with this guy, how brittle is he 

Shetty should really reconsider her life choices!

[neel roy]

Main tumhe bhool jaon yeh ho nahi sakta aur tum mujhe bhool jao yeh main hone nahi doonga.. 

 

KL Rahul to Indian selectors ( always)

[vvvslaxman]

Eswaran will replace hum?  Make Pant captain.

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, R!TTER said:

WT eff is wrong with this guy, how brittle is he 

Shetty should really reconsider her life choices!

If ball hits your finger, you will get injured. What's so surprising in this?

[bowl_out]

Make Ashwin captain 

[R!TTER]

12 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

If ball hits your finger, you will get injured. What's so surprising in this?

He gets hit virtually everywhere way too often, you're making it sound as if SRT/Dravid/Kohli/SS never held a bat in practice 

Edited December 21, 2022 by R!TTER

[SM2907]

Itni khushi. opportunity for someone new

[puneet28]

Pujara will be our Captain theb

[wanted_desi]

He will miss it; It would be wise to not compete against Gill. Hence when Rohit is back, this guy will sneak in as first choice opener. 

[nevada]

2 hours ago, R!TTER said:

WT eff is wrong with this guy, how brittle is he 

Shetty should really reconsider her life choices!

Don't worry, he will become fit in time to play every single game of IPL!

[rkt.india]

1 hour ago, R!TTER said:

He gets hit virtually everywhere way too often, you're making it sound as if SRT/Dravid/Kohli/SS never held a bat in practice 

During their days, we hardly had bowlers with pace to bowl in the nets. 

[The Realist]

SOS to Rahane?

[Clarke]

42 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

During their days, we hardly had bowlers with pace to bowl in the nets. 

 

Vikram Rathour is the pace bowler now ?

[Vijy]

not a big fan of easwaran, but I would like to see him for this 1 test - anyone but kela for the time being would be worth watching

[The Realist]

Dhawan incoming?

 

Dravid likes em old.

[Vijy]

14 minutes ago, The Realist said:

Dhawan incoming?

 

Dravid likes em old.

one can't rule such cr*p out from drabid

[Majestic]

3 hours ago, rkt.india said:

If ball hits your finger, you will get injured. What's so surprising in this?

Why does Virat Kohli never gets injured?

 

Clearly the reason behind it is lack of intense training. They care about Workload management more than training hard. 

 

In football, the likes of Messi and Mbappe need to keep that energy for 2 hours throughout and then they have to maintain high level of energy even while training and on a regular basis.

 

[figo6762]

Pujara will open and dravid will play at 3 . And we will witness pujara , dravid partnership of 100 (500) …  can’t wait for  action ..