New Delhi: Evolution of Kl Rahul as an all-format player has made him a deputy captain of the Indian Test Team for the three-test series in South Africa.
Toi has reported on December 15 that the selection of supporting naming Rahul as Deputy Virat Kohli after the newly appointed deputy captain Rohit Sharma was ruled out from a testing tour due to a hamstring injury.
The height of Rahul is a clear indication that the team’s voters and management are looking at the transition phase and are in the process of identifying new leaders.
Interestingly, Rahul has found a place in playing XI from the test team in England this year only when Shubman Gill and Garwal is ruled out due to injury.
For a while, it looks like the career of the Rahul test is at the intersection of the road given its inconsistency in the format.
He has been chosen in the test team for England tours only as possible backup in the middle order.
However, Sterling Rahul’s performance at the top of the order in challenging conditions won voter confidence.
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This step has also sent a clear signal to people like Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara that they are borrowing time.
Rahane has been Indian captain with a historic test series winning in Australia earlier this year but that voters find it difficult to put them in the designated leadership role when they struggle to order their places in playing XI.
Team management also wants to transition in the middle order.
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They also lead the IPL team.
There is no point in returning to the Rakee or Even Pujara because they really played to save their career at this time.
Rewane will feel very difficult to find a place in XI from the first test in Centurion which starts at the boxing day, “said the source said by voters.
R Ashwin is considered but the reluctance of team management to play it in overseas tests against it.
However, he is expected to play a role in this series with Ravindra Jadeja who is lost due to a knee injury.