Not long ago, KL Rahul picked up a nasty injury on the field while playing against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Lucknow Stadium. It didn’t look good at all as the LSG captain was taken off the field with physio’s assistance.
Later on, it was confirmed that KL Rahul will no longer play his part for Lucknow Super Giants for the remainder of the Indian Premier League. Krunal Pandya has been leading the team in KL Rahul’s absence.
KL Rahul, in his social media post has also confirmed that he is absolutely gutted that he won’t be able to turn up for the ICC WTC Final 2023 against Australia at the Kennington Oval in London.
In his post, he made it clear that he will be undergoing a thigh surgery, which will take him more time to recover. He further added that he will be going through rehabilitation and recovery process in the coming weeks.
Ishan Kishan replaces injured KL Rahul for WTC Final 2023
Since KL Rahul has been ruled out of the WTC Final 2023, the Indian cricket team management took a bold call by announcing Ishan Kishan as the replacement.
Meanwhile, Ishan Kishan is yet to make his international Test debut as the wicket-keeper batsman. He was the part of Indian squad in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but he was not featured in playing XI.
Ishan Kishan has played 48 games in first-class cricket. He has scored 2985 runs at an average of 38.76 including 6 tons and 16 fifties. Meanwhile, the majority of the fans reckon that the selectors should have picked Saha who has enough experience under his belt.
Wriddhiman Saha 40 Tests for India wherein he scored 1353 runs including 3 centuries and 6 fifties at an average close to 30.
India’s squad for WTC final: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan (wk).
Standby players: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Mukesh Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav.
Won't change the fact
Saha deserved this spot more than anyone else— divz (@koliesque) May 8, 2023
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I will never understand how BCCI's selection works😂
Advertisement— Pooh (@ThodaYehThodaWo) May 8, 2023
Makes no difference to the team. X-0+0 = X
— Bineet Mishra (@bineetmishra) May 8, 2023
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Ishan will play whole life because he is friends with all superstars where as best wicketkeeper like Saha will be shown door even if Pant is injured.
Advertisement— Shubman Gang (@ShubmanGang) May 8, 2023
Saha deserves it 😒
— 𝙍𝘿𝙆 #LEO (@Goatcheeku_18) May 8, 2023
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Why not Saha?
Advertisement— Saurabh Jaiswal (@cricrazy100rbh) May 8, 2023
Ishan was playing test in IPL for a reason…😭
— ً (@Ro45King) May 8, 2023
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I still wonder why Hanuma Vihari is not in the squad.
Advertisement— The RAW ni 💥 #SRH (@Jai_Kalla) May 8, 2023
Justice for saha
— , (@AltofLeg) May 8, 2023
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If they are planning to play Bharat as Wk
Then there's no need for Ishan
There are many specialist batter present wo deserves to be the part of ICTAdvertisement— Ayush (@Ayush_r_Writes) May 8, 2023
