The Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar believes that KL Rahul plays as a complete team member, but the Indian opener has not yet unleashed his full potential. Rahul has not yet got a place where he steadily fits in the test team, and has been moving back and forth the batting line-up. Rohit Sharma has retired and that led to an opportunity where he can now be the right hand partner of Yashasvi Jaiswal at the top. After the day finishing session with the broadcasters, Gavaskar stated that Rahul possesses a form of equanimity. Nevertheless, the Indian legend believed that even Rahul would tell that he remains to fulfil his potential.
Sunil Gavaskar’s Statement
“Total team man. He has even been asked to keep wickets. He does that for the team, and that’s what you want in the team. You see the way he reacts to the situation. He’s got an equanimity about him, which is so rare because in today’s day and age where everybody’s got to be doing things to show that they have achieved something, his celebrations are also muted. One thing everybody agrees about KL Rahul is that he doesn’t know how good a player he is. I mean, he would agree,” said Gavaskar.
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“He’s got so much talent. Look at all the shots on the offside, leg-side, the flick, everything. All the shots, but he hasn’t lived up to that. Now, that could be a bit of self-doubt in his mind or whatever that sometimes keeps the Bangalore boys from fulfilling their potential,” said Gavaskar.
“Thrilling to watch off the front foot, off the back foot, then the straight batter drive, which we saw just now and the cover drive. I can rave about that cover drive because there’s perfection in that.”
“I hope that he comes good in this series and scores over 500, maybe 700 runs. That would be fantastic from India,” said Gavaskar.
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