Former Indian batter Sanjay Manjrekar believes opener KL Rahul has ironed out his lone weak spot of inconsistency within the ongoing Check collection in England. Manjrekar’s remarks got here after the 33-year-old scored a masterful 100 off 177 deliveries within the first innings of the third Check at Lord’s.
It was Rahul’s tenth Check century, with half of them coming in opposition to England and an unbelievable 4 in England. Regardless of his brilliance within the ongoing collection, the veteran batter entered the UK tour with a Check common of beneath 34 in 58 outings.
Nevertheless, Rahul has already crossed three figures twice in 5 innings on this collection.
Speaking in regards to the trendy opener on ESPN Cricinfo after Day 3 at Lord’s, Manjrekar mentioned (4:04):
“It is one thing we find out about KL Rahul, there are not any apparent weaknesses, apart from the little interval he was unsure exterior off. As soon as he labored that out, you could not discover a loophole in his batting, protection, or assault. The one difficulty he had was of carrying his type and he has executed that fantastically on this collection. So, he has additionally corrected that one little flaw that he had.”
He added:
“Perfection of batting to be very trustworthy. He hasn’t put a foot flawed and even with Jofra Archer coming again into the aspect and being an opener, going through him with the brand new ball, it appeared like he had lot extra skill in spare to deal with this type of an assault. He hasn’t put a foot flawed and that is been the hallmark of his performances this collection.”
Rahul joined Dilip Vengsarkar as the one Indian batters with a number of Check centuries at Lord’s. The previous scored his maiden Check ton on the venue in 2021.
“He tackled England’s short-ball ploy simply” – Sanjay Manjrekar on KL Rahul
Sanjay Manjrekar praised KL Rahul for tackling England’s short-ball ploy on Day 3 of the Lord’s Test with ease. With the Indian opener being untroubled for his total innings, skipper Ben Stokes tried the short-ball tactic to no avail.
Rahul’s knock included 13 superb boundaries as he reached the milestone off 176 deliveries.
“He tackled England’s short-ball ploy simply as a result of it is a pitch which isn’t going to actually make it easier to with that tactic. So, it was Ben Stokes simply attempting to latch on to something he may and to set, class batters with no historical past of weaknesses in opposition to the short-ball, he was by no means going to fall lure to that,” mentioned Manjrekar (by way of the aforementioned supply).
Rahul’s heroics helped India end on degree footing with the hosts after the primary innings, with each groups scoring 387.
Edited by Venkatesh Ravichandran
