-Vinay Kumar
The second match of the 3-match Test series being played between India and South Africa (India vs South Africa Test Series, 2021-2022) is being played on the ground of Johannesburg, where the Indian team won the toss and won the bat. Team India’s regular captain Virat Kohli could not take the field due to back pain. Therefore, in this match, the captaincy of the team was given to KL Rahul in his place. Jasprit Bumrah has been made the Vice Captain in this match.
On Monday, January 3, on the first day of the second Test, Indian team opener KL Rahul faced 133 balls in his first innings batting and scored 50 runs with the help of 9 brilliant fours and 13th in his Test career. Completed half century. South Africa’s deadly bowler Marco Jansen trapped KL Rahul on his bouncer ball and got caught by Kagiso Rabada in the deep wicket. The team’s opener KL Rahul made a big record as soon as he landed on the Johannesburg ground as the captain of the Indian Test team. And, as soon as he made the half century, many more records became his name.
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This feat was repeated after 3 decades
Indian team opener KL Rahul made his captaincy debut in Test cricket in the Johannesburg Test match. After playing in this match, KL Rahul has joined the special list of former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin and Sunil Gavaskar. History tells that these great players got the captaincy of Test team in their career before captaining limited overs cricket. Mohammad Azharuddin took over the captaincy of the Indian Test team in the year 1990 before captaining the ODI team. Now after 1990 this history has been repeated. Significantly, in continuation of the 3-match Test series between India and South Africa, India’s ODI team for the 3-match ODI series was also announced in this tour of South Africa, in which KL Rahul. He will take charge of the captaincy of the team. Rohit Sharma, the regular captain of the Indian ODI and T20I team, is out of the series due to a hamstring injury. And, Test team captain Virat Kohli is not present in the second test match of the series being played in Johannesburg due to back pain. Because of this, the vice captain of the Test team, KL, is captaining this match. International cricket history tells that apart from Mohammad Azharuddin, the names of Sunil Gavaskar, Bishen Singh Bedi and Ajit Wadekar are also associated with this record.
KL Rahul made a special thirteenth century
Opener KL Rahul, who was captaining the Indian team in the Johannesburg Test match, maintained his excellent form in this match as well. After scoring a century in the first match of this latest series played at Centurion ground, KL Rahul has also scored a half-century in the ongoing match in Johannesburg. In this match, he faced 128 balls and scored the 13th half-century of his Test career, which included 9 brilliant fours. KL Rahul has become the 8th captain of India, who has scored a half-century in the debut match of the captaincy of the Test team. Significantly, this second match of the series is the 42nd match of KL Rahul’s Test career. And during this he also completed a triple century of fours in his international cricket career in the batting of the 71st innings of his career.
It is worth noting that KL Rahul needed 3 fours before this match to hit a triple century in international career. Now the number of fours in his account has increased to 306. He needed just 33 runs to touch this figure. He has 2517 runs in his account in Test cricket.
Included in the special list of Test cricket captaincy debuts
In the second match of the series at the Johannesburg ground, KL Rahul got out after scoring 50 runs. But, he stood in the line of these captains of India in Test cricket, in which the captains have scored a half-century in the debut match of the captaincy of their Test team. He joins the list of players to debut as Test captain, including Vijay Hazare (164* vs England, 1951/52), Sunil Gavaskar (116 vs New Zealand, 1975/76). ), Virat Kohli (115 vs Australia, 2014/15), Sourav Ganguly (84 vs Bangladesh, 2000/01), Chandu Borde (69 vs Australia, 1967/68), Hemchandra Officials (Hemchandra Adhikari) (63 vs West Indies, 1958/59), Nariman Jamshedji Nari Contractor (62 vs Pakistan, 1960/61) and KL Rahul (50 vs South Africa, 2021/20). 22) names.