Former Pakistan spinner, Danish Kaneria reckons that the current Indian dressing room looks divided, especially during the ODI series against South Africa. He mentioned that the stand-in captain KL Rahul and former captain Virat Kohli were sitting apart. Speaking on his YouTube channel Kaneria said that the former ODI captain Kohli wasn’t in the same mood after leaving the captaincy.

Danish Kaneria had said, “We saw during is the game is that the Indian dressing room was divided into two groups. KL Rahul and Virat Kohli were sitting apart. Also, Kohli wasn’t in the same mood as he used to be when he was the captain. But he’s a team man and will come back stronger.”

Former Pakistan spinner reckons that the stand-in skipper KL Rahul has not shown the spark yet and the lack of intensity from Team India helped the Proteas side to put the total of 296 runs on the board in the first ODI.

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Elaborating the same, Danish Kaneria said, “After losing the Test series, India would be eager to redeem themselves and clinch the ODI rubber. But Rahul hasn’t shown that spark until now. He had led in the Test series but wasn’t able to lift the team to break the South African partnership. At one stage, it didn’t look like the Proteas would put up 296 on the scoreboard. Lack of intensity from the Indian team helped the opposition in scoring such a total. “

Danish Kaneria further added that KL Rahul needs to get better with his batting skills and captaincy. Former Pakistan cricketer also pointed out that speedster Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave away a lot of runs in the first match and the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal failed to do much. 

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Danish Kaneria elaboarted, “Rahul needs to lift up captaincy and batting as well. He needs to lift the team. Also, Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave away many runs against South Africa and the Ashwin-Chahal pair didn’t look effective like the Kuldeep-Chahal duo. India didn’t use Venkatesh Iyer’s bowling services too. The next ODI will be played at the same venue and India needs to learn from their mistakes. Their intensity was poor in the series opener.”