The series was fantastic for KL Rahul.Image Credit Source: PTI
Team India’s star opener KL Rahul created history on the tour of England. Rahul could not do anything special in the Oval Test, but this tour proved to be memorable for him. In this series, Rahul, who came as the most senior and experienced batsman of the Indian team, performed the best of his career and lived up to the expectations of Team India. Along with this, in the last 22 years, he also became the highest run -scorer in a series on England’s land.
Great series for Rahul
Rahul failed in both innings in the last match of the Test series between India and England at the Oval, London. Rahul was dismissed by scoring just 14 runs in the first innings of this decisive match of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. At the same time, he could not do anything in the second innings and could only score half of it. This time he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 7 runs. In this way, in the first two days of the match, both of them returned to the innings.
KL Rahul could score only 21 runs in this Test, but in the last four matches, he raised the run. In every match from the first Test in Leeds to the fourth Test in Manchester, he scored more than 50 runs at least once. In this way, Rahul ended the series with strong figures of 532 runs in 10 innings of 5 Tests. His average was 53.20, including 2 centuries and 2 half -centuries. His best score was 137 runs.
Best opener in 22 years in England
It proved to be the best series of Rahul’s Test career, where he not only scored more than 400 runs in a series for the first time, along with this, he also became the most successful opener on England’s land in the last 22 years. Earlier in England, in 2003, former South African captain Grame Smith scored 714 runs as an opener. This is the first time after him, when an opener scored more than 500 runs in England. From Matthew Hayden to foreign openers like Virender Sehwag and Rohit Sharma and English openers like Alester Cook-Andro Strauss also could not do this wonders.
