By Admin 
Indian cricket team’s star batsman KL Rahul is playing for his home team Karnataka in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Unlike players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, Rahul’s performance has been disappointing in this tournament. He has not been successful in scoring runs in two consecutive matches.
KL Rahul had come to play against Tripura on 3 January. He could score 35 runs in that match. After this, on January 6, against Rajasthan, Rahul was out after scoring only 25 runs. This form of Rahul is a matter of concern for the Indian team before the ODI series against New Zealand.
Rahul is part of the ODI team selected for the ODI series against New Zealand. He has been selected as a wicketkeeper batsman and is certain to play. In such a situation, not getting runs from his bat is worrying for the Indian team.
India played the last ODI series against South Africa under the captaincy of Rahul. Team India had won 2-1 in this series. Shubman Gill is making a comeback in the New Zealand series. In such a situation, Rahul will be seen in the role of a wicketkeeper batsman and the responsibility of strengthening the middle order will be on his shoulders.
33-year-old Rahul started his ODI career in June 2016 against Zimbabwe. In the 83 innings of 91 ODIs played so far, he has scored 3,218 runs with the help of 7 centuries and 20 half-centuries while remaining unbeaten 18 times. His average has been 49.50.
If we look at Rahul’s performance in the last 10 ODI matches, he has scored two half-centuries with his bat. He had scored half-centuries in the first two matches of the South Africa series. In the first match, he scored 60 runs on 56 balls and in the second match, he scored 66 runs on 43 balls. He did not get a chance to bat in the third match.