India’s stand-in skipper, KL Rahul witnessed a forgettable start to his captaincy stint so far. It hasn’t been a great start for KL Rahul so far in his tenure as India captain. Captaining the team in the second Test at Johannesburg against South Africa in place of Virat Kohli, Rahul’s India lost at the Wanderers by seven wickets. And now, leading India in the first ODI at Paarl, KL Rahul and his men witnessed another defeat with hosts South Africa winning the match by 31 runs and taking a 1-0 lead in the series.

However, former South African pacer, Dale Steyn has said he found nothing glaringly wrong in Rahul’s captaincy and if he can get the ‘little bit’ right, things will fall in place for him.

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During the post-match show on Star Sports, Dale Steyn said, “If you look at KL, I don’t think he did anything wrong with his captaincy. He had a good day. But there were just those little differences, the little bit of planning that was the difference between India and the Proteas. South Africa was walking up to the bowlers, India stayed in their crease. It’s the little things KL is going to get better at.”

India registered a memorable 5-1 series win the last time they played a bilateral ODI series in the rainbow nation. But this time around, with only three ODIs to play and India having lost the first game in Paarl, Dale Steyn reckons Rahul does not have much time to get his act together as captain.

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Elaborating the same, Dale Steyn said, “He must understand today was his first game as captain. They haven’t played a lot of white-ball cricket. Some of the guys who have come out haven’t played cricket in a while. Little bit of ring rust. So they are going to get better. But he has got only 24 hours to turn this whole thing around. So today was a good day for them. They must have learnt from South Africa what they did right.”