Former India Coach Ravi Shastri Comments On Opener KL Rahul's Batting Form. Details

Former India head coach Ravi Shastri wants KL Rahul to come back in form soon.

KL Rahul in action.

Source : PTI

The Indian team have been playing good cricket for a while now. In the ongoing T20 World Cup, the Men in Blue have lost just one game against South Africa. The only cause of concern for the Indian team management is Kl Rahul’s poor outing in the middle. 

Former India head coach Ravi Shastri wants KL Rahul to come back in form soon. The 30-year-old has completely failed to deliver from his willow. Despite scoring back-to-back fifties in the team’s last two warm-up matches, Rahul has not scored in the main event. 

Speaking on ICC's 'The Big Time Preview,' Shastri said, "You need some more consistency from the top. KL Rahul getting some runs will help because you can't keep putting pressure on the middle order”.

The current head coach of the Indian team, Rahul Dravid in the pre-match press conference ahead of the Bangladesh match said, "No, not at all (his technique and mindset bothering you?). He is a fantastic player. He has got a proven track record. He is batting superbly (at the nets). And these things can happen. In a T20 game, it's been tough. It's not been easy for top-order batters in this T20 World Cup. The ball has been doing a bit”.

"He is actually playing really well, I just hope it all clicks together in the next couple of games. We all know his quality. We all know his ability. He is really suited to these kinds of conditions, these kinds of pitches. He has got a good all-round game, good backfoot game, which is very essential in these conditions. We are pretty happy with the way he is hitting it," he added.

India will be playing Bangladesh at the Adelaide Oval on Wednesday.

Bangladesh Squad: Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan(c), Afif Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain, Nurul Hasan(w), Yasir Ali, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Taskin Ahmed, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Ebadot Hossain, Shoriful Islam, Nasum Ahmed.

India Squad: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Dinesh Karthik(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal.