The Indian staff administration, headed by Rahul Dravid, has requested KL Rahul to be “ready to keep wickets and bat in middle-order” in ODIs going forward, the Indian vice-captain revealed on Sunday. Rahul has sporadically stored wickets and batted in middle-order again in 2021 and within the first ODI towards Bangladesh, he did don the large gloves other than scoring 73 runs.

This was after Rishabh Pant was rested from the ODI sequence on medical staff’s recommendation.

Rahul dropped an aerial catch of Player of the Match Mehidy Hasan Miraj, which might have ensured victory for India relatively than the one-wicket defeat.

“We haven’t played a lot of ODIs in last 8-9 months but if you look at 2020-21, I have kept wickets, and I have batted at Nos 4 and 5. This is the role that team has asked me to be ready for in white-ball cricket as I have done it before,” Rahul curtly replied when requested about Pant’s absence.

Rahul, who by advantage of being vice-captain, is part of the staff administration, nevertheless, did not make clear whether or not Pant was rested due to workload administration or attributable to some niggle.

“When it comes to Rishabh, I am not sure to be honest, just found today, that he is going to be released. What the reasons are, medical team will be in a better situation to answer those questions.

Rahul didn’t feel that either batters or bowlers should be held responsible for this defeat.

“That’s cricket proper. You should anticipate the sudden. As lengthy as cricket has been performed, these sort of issues maintain taking place. They fought very nicely until the top and the couple of dropped catches and that innings from Mehidy.” He was personally satisfied after scoring runs on a tricky wicket.

“One of these days the place it appeared like I used to be timing the ball higher (than others). The pictures I picked luckily went to boundary, each possibility that I picked went my approach,” he said.

“Such innings provides you pleasure as a batter as you might be challenged and you set your hand up when staff requires. Ideally, we must always have gotten 40 runs extra. I did fancy 230-240 if I batted until finish or even when I might have batted until fortieth over.”

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