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Defending champions India started the 2022 Asia Cup in the UAE with a winning start by registering back-to-back wins in the league matches. But in the first match of the tense Super 4 round, India lost to the arch-rivals Pakistan by 5 wickets and are forced to go to the finals only if they win the rest of the match. KL Rahul, who has been playing as the vice-captain since the beginning of this series, has been acting modestly and is causing a big setback in the batting department.
He made his debut in 2014 and stumbled a lot in the early stages. After the 2019 World Cup, he performed so well that he surpassed Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and took a permanent place as India’s latest run machine. So in the IPL series when his market has reached the peak of 17 crores, in order to maintain that position, he plays with the selfish idea of scoring big runs without worrying about the success or failure of the team in the recent past, so he plays at a low strike rate for that.
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Dissatisfied fans:
In that situation, he scored more than 400 runs as the captain of Lucknow in the IPL 2022 series and was waiting to take the field as the captain in the South African series that took place after that, he was away from the Indian team for 2 months due to an injury suffered at the last moment. After that he recovered and returned to the team in the recent Zimbabwe series where he got out with few runs, got out for a golden duck in the first match against Pakistan in this Asia Cup and played slowly by scoring 36 runs off 39 balls in bowling against Kathucutti which was not of a standard like Hong Kong.
Most of the fans have demanded that he should be removed from the team as he has not scored more than 30 runs in the Super 4 round and that he will fail for India in the IPL series. However, some former players like Sunil Gavaskar are supporting him as he has returned to the team from injury and needs time for some matches to return to his old form.
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Joining the ranks, former player Kiran More has supported that Rahul, who is considered a classy batsman in T20 cricket, should be chosen without thinking in the T20 World Cup held in Australia as he has the ability to easily score a century in any match. Here is what he said about it:
“KL Rahul has returned to the team after undergoing surgery and recovering from a major injury. A key player of Indian team, he is needed in the World Cup. He can easily score hundreds in international T20 cricket. In the match against Pakistan, he hit the shot a little too early. Otherwise he would have easily scored 80-90 with the way he batted.”
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“So we have to support him in the T20 World Cup. We should not easily panic and make decisions about him. And we have to be very focused to win the Asia Cup and win the World Cup. For me Asia Cup is not bigger than World Cup. Because after 2011 we have not won any kind of world cup. So Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid should trust Rahul and give him a chance,” he said.
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In other words, Kiran More says that KL Rahul is necessary in the Indian team to win a big series like the World Cup despite his modest performance in this Asia Cup, so he has requested that he should not be removed from the World Cup team with his current form.
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