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Twitter wants Kohli to drop KL Rahul for the fifth Test

Dixit Bhargav
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Kohli to drop KL Rahul is what is the chant on social media platform Twitter after the latter’s has failed to make a mark in this series.

Following a poor display of batting by opener Lokesh Rahul in the ongoing Pataudi trophy between England and India, members of the social media platform Twitter have raised a voice, wanting the batsman to be dropped for the fifth and final Test of the series.

It has been such a series for Rahul where despite looking decent in the middle, he has failed to score a significant total. Interestingly, the 26-year old right-hand batsman was preferred ahead of Cheteshwar Pujara at No. 3 in the first Test. After being promoted to play as an opener in the next three matches, Rahul still couldn’t stand tall on the expectations bestowed upon him.

There is no hiding to the fact that three (Sydney, Colombo and Kingston) out of Rahul’s four Test centuries have have come on foreign soil. However, his recent form outside of India does not speak in the affirmative.

In the last five Test matches that he has played overseas (excluding the ongoing match), Rahul has scored 124 runs in five matches at an average of 12.40 and a strike rate of 51.02. Additions of 19 and 0 in this match won’t help his case wither.

It was this spree of Rahul to not be able to score runs in the longest format of the game off late that has attracted a lot of criticism on Twitter. People have went on to the extent of requesting captain Virat Kohli to not include him for the fifth Test. Prithvi Shaw, who was included into the squad for the last two Tests, is being advocated to replace Rahul at The Oval.

Here is how people have reacted to Rahul’s poor form on Twitter:

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Dixit Bhargav

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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