Put in to bat underneath overcast situations on a red-soil pitch that noticed Hasan Mahmud operating in together with his tail as much as run by India’s prime order, the hosts had been in hassle at 34 for 3.However Rishabh Pant (39) and Yashaswi Jaiswal (56) added 62 vital runs for the fourth wicket. The autumn of Pant, who’s enjoying his first Check after recovering from the horrific automotive accident in December 2022, introduced Rahul to the crease.
The 32-year-year Rahul scratched round in opposition to younger Bangladeshi pacers earlier than being dismissed by spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz for a 52-ball 16.
Speaking about Rahul’s innings on an ESPNcricinfo present, former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar known as it an “innings with out function”.
“That is KL Rahul’s story. It is superb that he performs a superb innings on the Check degree, and the subsequent two-three innings it looks as if he bought a pair within the final Check,” mentioned Manjrekar.
“Even once you noticed him bat in the present day (Day 1 of Chennai Check), it nearly appeared like an innings with out function. However that may occur. It occurred with me within the second half of my profession, the place all the pieces was internalised. I went into bat simply fascinated by my approach, am I going to play this ball nicely, imagining a sure kind of supply coming in and I’ve bought to play correctly as a substitute of going to your intuition as a batter, which I believe all the opposite Indian batters follow…about getting runs. Even if you’re defending, (you’re) searching for ones and twos,” he defined.
Rahul was the sixth Indian wicket to fall and the scorecard wore a apprehensive have a look at 144 for six. However India’s bowling all-rounders, the spin twins Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, had different concepts.
Native man Ashwin went on to attain sixth Check century in his one hundred and first Check and had an unbroken partnership of 195 runs with Jadeja, who was batting on 86 when stumps had been drawn on Thursday.
Ashwin will resume his knock on Friday at 102 not out.
Coming again to Rahul’s innings, Manjrekar felt temperamental points are hurting the right-hander.
“I believe that’s extra a temperamental downside with KL Rahul, which has plagued him for 50 Check matches. The numbers that he has…He is bought a whole lot, not one or two, fairly a number of in testing situations. However the common of 34 tells you about his temperament, and that we bought a have a look at in the present day as nicely,” mentioned Manjrekar.
Rahul has scored 2879 runs in 87 Check innings at a mean of 33.87, together with 8 a whole lot and 14 fifties.
“Let’s hope issues enhance for him within the second innings,” Manjrekar concluded.
