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Kumble indicates KL Rahul's inclusion for Visakhapatnam Test
Anil Kumble, India's head coach, gave a strong indication regarding KL Rahul's immediate selection for the second Test against England. The 24-year-old opener is on a comeback trail, having suffered a hamstring injury in the Kanpur Test against New Zealand that ruled him out of remainder of the Tests and the ODI series, and was a late inclusion to India's squad ahead of the Visakhapatnam Test.
Kumble and BCCI's team of physios, however, saw enough in Rahul's Ranji Trophy performance against Rajasthan - he scored 76 & 106 - to be convinced of his match-readiness after a substantial layoff. The Karnataka batsman will, in all probability, take Gautam Gambhir's place at the top of India's batting line-up.
"Yes, Rahul is available for selection and you would want Rahul to be in the starting line-up, that's the reason he has been included," Kumble said on Tuesday (November 15). "He had an injury in Kanpur which all of you are aware of. And then since then, he was not available for any of the Test matches against New Zealand nor for the one-dayers. He has recovered now and as per the protocol, we wanted him to go and play a first-class match and I think today he got a hundred. In the first innings, he got 70-plus against Rajasthan. Since the match was happening very close to Vizag, it's good to have him in the squad and he is available for selection."
A lot of talk during the post-mortem of the drawn Rajkot Test centered around England landing the first punch in the series, particularly with their spinners - Adil Rashid, Moeen Ali and Zafar Ansari - outbowling India's own spin troika. That India were six wickets down in their attempts to bat out 49 overs of the final day's play didn't help quell the murmurs but Kumble was quick to establish that, at the heart of it all, the match was a stalemate.
"It was a draw! Overall, if you look at the first innings, both teams batted close to 160 overs each, so it was a challenge for the bowlers to pick up wickets. It was a good wicket to bat on. Yes, when you look at the last day, those 50 overs, I don't like to read too much into that batting that happened in those 70 overs.
"If you look at that, probably if [Cheteshwar] Pujara had taken the DRS, probably it would have been 170 for 1 and probably people would have focussed more on the pitch. But it was a performance where I thought it was a good batting surface and there were six centuries - two from us and four from the English batsmen. It was a good Test match but unfortunately we couldn't get a result," Kumble said.
Kumble had words of praise for India's seamers - Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav - for their bowling disciplines in Rajkot and for their ability to reverse the ball prodigiously when England found little to no assistance with the old ball. The head coach, however, identified fielding as an immediate area of improvement following a sub-par effort in Rajkot, where they dropped three catches in the first half an hour of the Test match.
"I thought the fast bowlers bowled really well. Both Shami and Umesh bowled exceptionally well on that surface. They got it to reverse as well and they troubled all the English batsmen.
"If you look at the only aspect where we probably let ourselves down, it was in the catching. We have done really well in all the three departments over the past three and a half months that I have been a part of this team or even before that. Our batting, our bowling and catching is something that this team really prides itself on. That's something where we probably let ourselves down, the catching department."
Kumble indicates KL Rahul's inclusion for Visakhapatnam Test - Cricbuzz
Anil Kumble, India's head coach, gave a strong indication regarding KL Rahul's immediate selection for the second Test against England. The 24-year-old opener is on a comeback trail, having suffered a hamstring injury in the Kanpur Test against New Zealand that ruled him out of remainder of the Tests and the ODI series, and was a late inclusion to India's squad ahead of the Visakhapatnam Test.
Kumble and BCCI's team of physios, however, saw enough in Rahul's Ranji Trophy performance against Rajasthan - he scored 76 & 106 - to be convinced of his match-readiness after a substantial layoff. The Karnataka batsman will, in all probability, take Gautam Gambhir's place at the top of India's batting line-up.
"Yes, Rahul is available for selection and you would want Rahul to be in the starting line-up, that's the reason he has been included," Kumble said on Tuesday (November 15). "He had an injury in Kanpur which all of you are aware of. And then since then, he was not available for any of the Test matches against New Zealand nor for the one-dayers. He has recovered now and as per the protocol, we wanted him to go and play a first-class match and I think today he got a hundred. In the first innings, he got 70-plus against Rajasthan. Since the match was happening very close to Vizag, it's good to have him in the squad and he is available for selection."
A lot of talk during the post-mortem of the drawn Rajkot Test centered around England landing the first punch in the series, particularly with their spinners - Adil Rashid, Moeen Ali and Zafar Ansari - outbowling India's own spin troika. That India were six wickets down in their attempts to bat out 49 overs of the final day's play didn't help quell the murmurs but Kumble was quick to establish that, at the heart of it all, the match was a stalemate.
"It was a draw! Overall, if you look at the first innings, both teams batted close to 160 overs each, so it was a challenge for the bowlers to pick up wickets. It was a good wicket to bat on. Yes, when you look at the last day, those 50 overs, I don't like to read too much into that batting that happened in those 70 overs.
"If you look at that, probably if [Cheteshwar] Pujara had taken the DRS, probably it would have been 170 for 1 and probably people would have focussed more on the pitch. But it was a performance where I thought it was a good batting surface and there were six centuries - two from us and four from the English batsmen. It was a good Test match but unfortunately we couldn't get a result," Kumble said.
Kumble had words of praise for India's seamers - Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav - for their bowling disciplines in Rajkot and for their ability to reverse the ball prodigiously when England found little to no assistance with the old ball. The head coach, however, identified fielding as an immediate area of improvement following a sub-par effort in Rajkot, where they dropped three catches in the first half an hour of the Test match.
"I thought the fast bowlers bowled really well. Both Shami and Umesh bowled exceptionally well on that surface. They got it to reverse as well and they troubled all the English batsmen.
"If you look at the only aspect where we probably let ourselves down, it was in the catching. We have done really well in all the three departments over the past three and a half months that I have been a part of this team or even before that. Our batting, our bowling and catching is something that this team really prides itself on. That's something where we probably let ourselves down, the catching department."
Kumble indicates KL Rahul's inclusion for Visakhapatnam Test - Cricbuzz
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England (Playing XI): Alastair Cook(c), Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow(w), Zafar Ansari, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson
India (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami
India (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami
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