KL Rahul replacement: Who can replace out-of-form Indian opener in Tests vs South Africa?

Dixit Bhargav | 09/09/2019
KL Rahul replacement: Who can replace out-of-form Indian opener in Tests vs South Africa?

Abhimanyu Easwaran

Much like Panchal, Bengal opening batsman Abhimanyu Easwaran has also been among the runs in the domestic circuit. If Panchal was the fourth-highest run-scorer in the last season of Ranji Trophy, Easwaran ended the season as its seventh-highest run-scorer.

In six matches, Easwaran had scored 861 runs at an average of 95.66 and a strike rate of 59.33 including three centuries and half-centuries each. Overall in 52 First-class matches, the 24-year old right-hand batsman has amassed 4,067 runs at an average of 49.59 and a strike rate of 51.06 including 13 centuries and 17 half-centuries.

Opening the batting with Panchal in the final of the Duleep Trophy against India Green last week, Easwaran had scored 153 (300) with the help of 16 fours and two sixes in a match-winning effort.

While Easwaran scored a solitary half-century in six innings for India A in West Indies, he had scored a dominating 233 (321) with the help of 22 fours and three sixes against Sri Lanka A at home in May.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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