Big news coming in from Indore from the Indian cricket team’s side during the toss for the 3rd Test match of the 4 match series against Australia. India captain Rohit Sharma has confirmed that young opening batsman Shubman Gill is in the Playing XI for the match in place of our of form KL Rahul.
The Indian cricket have retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after winning the first 2 matches of the series against Australia in Nagpur and in Delhi.
The Indian team have been solid throughout the series so far, both with the bat and the ball. But the same can’t be said for KL Rahul, who only managed to score past 20 runs only once in the 3 innings he played in the series.
Rahul has been going through a bad run of form for some quite some time and he was still part of the Playing XI, which led to some former player coming out in public and speak against. A huge amount of fans also supported.
Venkatesh Prasad was one of those who spoke against KL Rahul. He presented various stats showing how KL Rahul has failed to deliver strong performances from the last couple of years.
Team India captain Rohit Sharma has won the toss in Indore and have decided to bat first. He has named 2 changes in the Playing XI, one obviously being Shubman Gill replacing KL Rahul and other one Umesh Yadav has come in for Mohammed Shami, who has been rested for the match.
But KL Rahul being dropped from the Playing XI and someone deserving getting the chance has made Indian fans satisfied, checkout how Twitterati reacted to the same.