The Indian cricketer KL Rahul is facing such a hard time at the present moment. After continuous poor forms with the bat, he has now entered to the controversy along with the Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya for inappropriate comments in a popular Indian talk show. However, the legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar is still hopeful on the Karnataka batsman.

Everything was right for him till the IPL 2018 where he performed remarkably well in consistent wise as he scored 659 runs in 14 innings with the average of 54.91. But since the English tour, his form started to drop down and most recently, he was seriously struggling to score even the double-digit runs and that too in the Test format.

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However, Gavaskar is still hopeful on him as he still believes that Rahul is going to be the next big thing in Indian cricket. The Indian legendary batsman feels that Rahul’s recent performances have been affected for his poor technique and mental frailty.

Recently, Gavaskar told in an interview according to scroll.in, “I think it is a combination of poor technique and mental frailty. He is short of runs, so he is short of confidence. I’ve said it before but I think he is going to be the next big thing in Indian cricket and I do believe he still has the capability of becoming the next big thing if he just solely focuses on his batting and a couple of things that seem to have crept in.”

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Later, Gavaskar elaborated Rahul’s batting technique issue. Gavaskar has pointed out that Rahul’s present feet movements are not proper.

The 69-year-old said, “He is a tall guy, he is six feet. So for him, I believe that shuffle where he goes around the off-stump with the back foot is not helping. The next movement is around the fourth and fifth stump with the front foot, which is what is making him play the off-stump and getting caught. Because of the initial trigger, he thinks he can reach those deliveries. While the ball is still new and moving away, he is not in a position at the start of the innings to play that shot. Secondly, when he is trying to leave the ball or defend, there is a chance of the ball taking the inside edge and going onto the stumps.”

Talking about the proper feet movements, Gavaskar pointed out another Indian legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s feet movements.

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Gavaskar quoted, “I think what he really needs to do is figure out his preliminary movement. Sachin [Tendulkar] had a slight front foot movement… not even front and across. Just slight front foot movement. He got his momentum to go forward or back from that. But your balance still remains the same.

“In Rahul’s case, the balance doesn’t remain the same because when he goes on the back foot and then onto the front, the balance has moved so much to the front that he is unable to make that late adjustment.”