Former South Africa pacer Dale Steyn praised India’s captain KL Rahul for his strong batting performance in the ongoing three-match ODI series against South Africa.
Speaking on Star Sports, Steyn said: “A good, handy knock set by the skipper, KL, and he led his team well in the first one, managed to up the ante when he needed to. And again today, there was a period where he went semi-slow with Jadeja. South Africa bowled well in that little transitional period there, and the last over picked up the most expensive over of the innings.”
Rahul scored 60 in the first match in Ranchi and built two key partnerships of 76 and 65 runs with Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja to take India to a strong total of 349. In the second match, he improved his performance and made 66 off 43 balls at a strike rate of 153.49.
Steyn believes that if Rahul batted in the top order, he could have converted these scores into hundreds.
“He just knows how to do it. Again, if he batted 3 or if he opened the batting, I am pretty certain he would also go on to get the hundreds. But those positions are for other players, and he knows what his role is within this team. And both games so far, he has played fantastic innings.” he added.
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