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MS Dhoni’s Return Seems Tricky With KL Rahul Doing Well?
By CricShots - May 4, 2020 1:37 pm
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Former BCCI Chief Selector MSK Prasad reckons that the consistent performances of KL Rahul as India’s limited-overs wicket-keeper batsman will make the return of former Indian skipper, MS Dhoni more difficult. Rahul was promoted by the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli to keep wickets for India in the ODI series against Australia series at home in January to provide ‘better balance’ and the batsman from Karnataka has since done reasonably well behind the stumps.

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MS Dhoni and KL Rahul

Talking about the same during a chat with Fancode, Prasad said, “We had a discussion and MS (Dhoni) didn’t want to play for some time. So we moved on and picked Rishabh Pant and we have been backing him. Now KL (Rahul) has also done extremely well in the matches that he played in New Zealand. So it would have been nice if the IPL was being played and we would have seen old glimpses of Mahi but now it’s a very tricky situation.”

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Under his reign, the former India cricketer highlighted the sudden out of favor players like Ambati Rayudu and Karun Nair, whom they could’ve handled better. Rayudu was recalled to the Indian team in September of 2018 and despite his consistent performance, he was surprisingly dropped from India’s World Cup squad. This led to the batsman announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket before he reversed his decision.

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Ambati Rayudu

As for Nair, it seems baffling to see that why the Test specialist didn’t get the long rope despite scoring a triple-century in only his third Test. Since, he played only six Tests, his last game coming against Australia during the 2016-17 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The final nail in the coffin seemed to be when Nair was sent back during India’s 2018 tour of England and the team went ahead with handing a debut to Hanuma Vihari ahead of him.

Describing the same, Prasad said, “I feel bad for Ambati Rayudu, he was in thick and thin of things till the last second of the World Cup and on that day of the selections, he was missed out, there’s no doubt that it’s not only he who felt bad for it, I am sure all of the selection committee, all of the members also feel bad for that.”

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He further added, “Especially, after getting the triple hundred. We couldn’t give him a comeback opportunity. We did give him in England series but he didn’t get a match to play. It happens very rarely that someone hits a triple hundred in international cricket and we couldn’t give him a comeback opportunity, it’s really heartbreaking, not only for him but all of us.”