T20 World Cup 2024

Sunil Gavaskar sheds light on why KL Rahul has failed to score runs in the 20-20 World Cup 2022

India have managed to win 2 matches out of three played so far in the 20-20 World Cup 2022. They have had a pretty good campaign but KL Rahul’s form is a big concern for the team right now. He has opened the innings for the team in all three games but could only manage to score 22 runs so far. His scores in the three games read: 4,9, and 9.

Meanwhile, former Indian legendary cricketer, Sunil Gavaskar has said that the Indian opener has oodles of talent, however, he has lack of self-belief. During an interaction with India Today, Gavaskar said,

“Every time I see Rahul not scoring runs, I get the impression, he does not actually know the kind of ability he has. He doesn’t seem to believe in himself. He is a fabulous player and has loads of ability. He’s got to start saying ‘I’m gonna go and knock the stuffing out of the ball’. He’s got to have that kind of attitude. I want him to swagger. It will make a whole difference,”.

Ahead of their fourth match against Bangladesh, the Indian Cricket Team trained indoors in Adelaide. During the training session, Virat Kohli was seen having a chat with KL Rahul. Shedding light on the same, Gavaskar tried to decode what the conversation what about.

“He’s (Kohli) the senior player, has bags of runs in every format, this has been his favourite ground, and he’ll be able to tell him what to do. I think he was trying to say that the ball outside off stump could cause trouble to anybody early in the innings when you are not certain about your off stump. You are not certain where the ball is gonna move. You tend to play at deliveries which you would otherwise leave and in this format, you can’t afford to leave deliveries. He’s got out a couple of times dragging the ball onto his stumps, at Perth, the extra bounce did him but he’s a class act, let’s not forget that,” he added.

India will play their fourth match in the Super 12s against Bangladesh on Sunday.