File picture of Wasim Jaffer.© Twitter
Team India is having fun with its dominance over West Indies within the ongoing two-match Test collection. The Rohit Sharma-led aspect started its 2023-25 World Test Championship cycle on a successful word after thrashing the hosts by an innings and 141 runs within the first recreation in Dominica. In the primary innings of the second Test, India posted a whopping complete of 438. While the likes of Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal have shone within the collection to date, it has been a poor outing for Ajinkya Rahane, who scored three runs in his solely innings within the first Test and adopted it with one other poor knock of eight runs.
Rahane was included again into the Indian staff after a profitable IPL 2023 with Chennai Super Kings. Following which he gave an excellent efficiency with scores of 89 and 46 within the World Test Championship ultimate in opposition to Australia in June. However within the ongoing collection, Rahane has did not dwell as much as the expectations.
The 35-year-old batter has been receiving a number of criticism for his flop present however former India batter Wasim Jaffer backed him and acknowledged that Rahane wants to indicate some consistency as he’s a “good captaincy option” after Rohit Sharma.
“Rahane will have to show consistency in his game, which has been his problem even though he has played 80-90 Tests (84). Consistency has been an issue, he will have to overcome it because India have a good captaincy option in him after Rohit Sharma is done. Rahane will have to make runs, and then everything else will follow,” Jaffer mentioned on Jio Cinema.
Jaffer additionally acknowledged that Rahane might have change into India’s Test captain after 2-1 win over Australia within the 2021 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
“If his form was great from that Australia series after that 36 all out, the way he led, scored a hundred in Melbourne… had his form remained the same, he would have been the next Test captain. But he lost his form and got dropped,” mentioned the previous India batter.
“However, he reinvented himself in the IPL and got a chance in the WTC final. He was appointed the vice-captain as well, because the Indian selectors see a good leader in him. He still has age on his side but he needs to score runs, if he does not then he will find it difficult,” he added.
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