kl rahul under scanner as india seek rohit sharma replacement for border gavaskar trophy 2025 perth test

A five-match Test series will be played between India and Australia from November 22 under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2025. Captain Rohit Sharma may stay out of this test due to personal reasons. In such a situation, who will open in his place in Perth? This is the biggest question. Will Abhimanyu Easwaran make his debut or will KL Rahul open? At present, these options are visible. Perhaps for this reason, KL Rahul was sent to Australia before the rest of the squad and he also came to open in the second unofficial test against Australia A. But his game ended after just 4 runs.

In such a situation, a new puzzle arose before the Indian team management. Along with Rahul, reserve opener Easwaran also flopped. He could not even open an account. He was out on the third ball of the match on the green top wicket of Melbourne. Abhimanyu had also failed in the first unofficial test against Australia A. He had scored 19 runs in both the innings combined. In such a situation, instead of solving the problem of the Indian team management’s salute, it seems to be getting complicated.

KL Rahul has opened on foreign tours before also. He has also opened in Australia and has also scored a century while opening the innings. In such a situation, only his past record is such that he can get him a place in the playing-11 in the Test against Australia. Rahul has played five Tests in Australia in which he has scored 187 runs. He played an inning of 110 runs in Sydney in 2015. Apart from this one century, Rahul has not been able to do anything special in Australia. He has scored 61 runs in 7 innings. It has 44 top scores.