India vs Australia, KL Rahul on Yashasvi Jaiswal: Lokesh Rahul sees a glimpse of himself in 22-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal, who on his first tour of Australia is seen in the same condition as he was in his first tour of Australia 10 years ago. Rahul made his debut at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the 2014-15 series, batting at number six and playing innings of three and one run. However, he made a strong comeback as an opening batsman in the very next match and caught everyone’s attention by scoring 110 runs in Sydney.
Rahul looked nervous in the second innings in Sydney where he scored 16 runs while batting for an hour with Murali Vijay. Rahul is trying to play the same role with Jaiswal that former opener and senior national team teammate Vijay played with him. Rahul and Jaiswal, while opening the innings in the second innings of the first Test in Perth, made a partnership of 201 runs, which is an Indian record. Jaiswal had scored a century in Perth while Rahul had scored 77 runs.
Asked about his conversation with Jaiswal, Rahul said, “I saw myself in him, as I was 10 years ago, opening the innings for the first time, a lot of doubts, a lot of nervousness and you want to play your game. But you keep having doubts and there’s a lot going on in your mind and so all you can do is try to slow things down, try to take some deep breaths.” Recalling his Test century in Sydney, Rahul said, “My opening partner (Murali Vijay) told me the same thing, I just told him the same.”
Said this about pink ball
India’s experienced batsman Lokesh Rahul, who is preparing for his first day-night Test, has been successful in testing that the pink Kookaburra ball comes at a faster speed, hits the hands more hard while fielding and it is quite difficult to understand it from the bowler’s hand. It is difficult. Rahul, who played an important role in helping the team win by 295 runs by scoring 77 runs in the second innings of the first Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy, is trying to learn as much as possible during the practice session with the pink ball.
Rahul, who has scored more than 3000 runs in 54 Tests in his career so far, said, “Even while fielding, this ball feels more solid than the red ball. It seems as if the ball is coming into the hand at a slightly faster speed and Is more solid.” He said, “It is the same during batting. This ball seems to be coming at more speed than the red ball and is getting more help from the seam.”
He said, “We are looking forward to this challenge. This is my first pink ball match, so I would like to reach the field and face the real challenge.” Rahul said, “If you look at the pink ball, its shine does not fade away quickly and this will help the fast bowlers a lot. Even on the first day of the Perth Test, the ball was getting a lot of help from the seam.”
