KL Rahul Scored A Century As An Opener At Lords
KL Rahul scored a century as an opener at Lord’s, the names of these 2 Indian legends in the list.
Indian opener KL Rahul played a brilliant inning in the second match of the five-match series being played against England.
The batsman, who missed a century in Nottingham, made a place in the list of Indian legends with a century on the historic ground of England.
Earlier, only two openers from India had scored a century on this ground. Rahul became India’s third opener to score a century on this ground.
In the Lord’s Test, England captain Joe Root won the toss and decided to bowl first. Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul gave a strong start to the team by sharing 126 runs while batting brilliantly.
Played unbeaten on 127 runs on the first day of the second test match against England. While Rohit returned after playing an innings of 83 runs.
While captain Virat Kohli scored 42 runs, Cheteshwar Pujara could only score 9 runs.
KL Rahul scored a century.
Rahul, who missed a century in the first Test against England, kept his patience here and completed the century.
Rahul, who completed fifty runs in 137 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six, completed his century on the 212th ball. During this, 9 fours were hit while one six was seen.
Third Indian opener to score a century at Lord’s.
Rahul became the 10th batsman overall to score a century at Lord’s for India. Vinoo Mankad opened the Indian account by scoring a century on this ground in 1952.
He became the first Indian batsman to do so. He was also the first Indian to do so as an opener.
After this, the current Indian coach Ravi Shastri scored a century in 1990. Rahul is only the third Indian opener to be included in this list.
Veenu Mankad, Dilip Vengsarkar, Gundappa Vishwanath, Ravi Shastri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, Ajit Agarkar, Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane have all scored centuries at Lord’s.
Virat Kohli did not win a single toss in Test on England soil, fans trolled on Twitter.
Team India is currently playing against England in the second Test of the five-match Test series at Lord’s from 12 August.
Meanwhile both the teams were progressing in the game in the absence of some key players of the team. India was forced to drop Shardul Thakur from the team as he suffered a hamstring injury.
At the same time, England will miss Stuart Broad, who had to be ruled out of the entire series due to a calf injury. On the other hand, Indian captain Virat Kohli once again lost the toss in England.
This is the eighth time that Indian captain Virat Kohli has lost in the toss of a Test match. They have not yet won a single toss in Test cricket on the soil of England. Because of this, he is being trolled.
