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Twitter reactions on Indian openers’ lean patch

Dixit Bhargav
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Twitter reactions on Indian openers' lean patch

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 08: Lokesh Rahul of India bats during day three of the First Test match in the series between Australia and India at Adelaide Oval on December 08, 2018 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Twitter reactions on Indian openers’ lean patch: Fans lash out at the Indian opening batsmen for their spree of poor performances.

During the second day of the second Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Perth, Indian opening batsmen yet again failed to cope up against a fierce pace bowling attack comprising of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.

After India bowled out Australia on 326 in 108.3 overs, they had to bat for three over before the lunch break. While everyone expected the Indian openers to survive for three overs, it didn’t happen as Murali Vijay (0) was bowled by Starc on the last delivery of the session.

In which was one more instance of Vijay playing a loose shot first up, he was seen playing a half-drive-half-defense against an incoming delivery from Starc. A significant gap between his bat and pad was enough for the ball to hit the stumps.

While Rahul survived the three overs before lunch, he couldn’t survive for another three after the break. On the first ball of the sixth over, Rahul seemed to have no answer whatsoever to a Josh Hazlewood swinging yorker. With the ball appearing to come in into the batsman and going away a tad at reaching him, it ended up hitting the stumps. Rahul ended up scoring 2 (17).

On a pitch which is doing a bit and is expected to only get worse for the batsmen, India needed a start in the affirmative up the order. With both the openers back in the pavilion in the sixth over, India’s chances of covering up Australia’s total look in a spot of bother.

In the 12 Test matches that Rahul has played in this year, he has scored 468 runs at an average of 23.40 and a strike rate of 59.31. Barring his century against England at The Oval, he has scored 321 runs in 21 innings (including today’s innings), something which is unacceptable for an opening batsman.

Vijay, who made his comeback into the team in the first Test, has registered scores of 11, 18 and 0 in the three innings which he has played down under. With one more innings remaining in the Test, both of them would be hoping to make a substantial mark. Another failure might see one of them swapping places with Prithvi Shaw in Melbourne.

Read some of the latest Twitter reactions on the same below:

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Dixit Bhargav

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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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