“The 100 in South Africa has given me some confidence” – KL Rahul reacts to his 86 in 1st Take a look at vs England

KL Rahul has accepted that he’s having fun with enjoying as a middle-order batter after a short stint as an opener. He made the feedback following his exploits with the bat in opposition to England in India’s first innings of the continued Take a look at in Hyderabad.

The wicketkeeper-batter credited his century in the course of the just lately concluded Take a look at sequence in South Africa for a lift in confidence. Rahul additionally identified the changes that he needed to make to duplicate his abroad success in residence circumstances.

Rahul stated within the post-match present on Jio Cinema:

“The 100 in SA has given me some confidence, additionally having performed 6-7 months of cricket since my harm. The purpose was to remain constructive once I went out to bat.

“Very completely different to that of South Africa (on the pitch) – a little bit of flip, it turned slower and slower because the ball went previous. [It] Was a problem. I needed to look forward to my alternative to play pictures.”

He added:

“[I am] Enjoying batting in the middle-order. I did enjoy batting in the top-order for a long time, but here you get some time to put your feet up, watch as to how the ball is doing, what the bowlers are doing and it gives time to plan your innings.”

Rahul scored 86 runs off 123 balls, together with two sixes and eight boundaries. He stitched a few 50+ partnerships with Shreyas Iyer and Ravindra Jadeja.

“The chat was to bat as long as possible” – KL Rahul on India’s gameplan in opposition to England

KL Rahul additional revealed that the hosts wished to bat all through day as they prolonged their first innings result in 175 at stumps on Day 2. He added that the hosts weren’t speeding to get a end result. He stated:

“It’s only the second day. We just wanted to bat the full day and get as many runs as possible (on the team plan). The chat was to bat as long as possible and everyone to bat and score as many runs as we could.”

Other than KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ravindra Jadeja additionally scored of their 80s.

At stumps on Day 2, India have been 421/7 after 110 overs, with Jadeja (81 off 155) and Axar Patel (35 off 62) on the crease.

Earlier on Day 1, the hosts bundled out England for 246 in 64.3 overs. Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja shared three wickets apiece, whereas Axar Patel and Jasprit Bumrah bagged two every.

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