Sanjay Manjrekar said “I was feeling that someone else should be given a chance in the Indian Test squad” instead of KL Rahul

Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar was unsure of India including KL Rahul in the playing XI for the first Test against England in Nottingham. Manjrekar felt someone else should have been given a chance, considering Rahul’s lack of game time in the longest format over the last couple of years.

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However, Manjrekar was pleasantly surprised as Rahul went on to make a stellar comeback and turned out to be the best batsman for the visitors in the series-opener. Rahul had last played a Test match for India in 2019 and was making his comeback after almost two years.

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With Shubman Gill out of the series and Mayank Agarwal ruled out of the first Test due to a head injury, Rahul was slotted as an opener and opened the batting alongside Rohit Sharma at Trent Bridge. He slammed a brilliant 84 in India’s first innings to help Virat Kohli & Co. post 278 runs on the board, in reply to England’s first-innings total of 183 runs.

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“I was impressed as well as extremely happy for KL Rahul. I have been regularly saying that he failed in Test matches for 4-5 series, so I was feeling that someone else should be given a chance in the Indian Test squad or Test XI because KL Rahul was not giving good performances in Test cricket,” said Manjrekar speaking about Rahul on Sony Sports post the first Test between India and England.