Rahul scored 101 runs for India off 137 balls. His innings included 14 fours and 4 sixes. The Indian team could not do anything special in this innings. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after scoring 17 runs. Rohit Sharma retired after scoring 5 runs. Shubman Gill was out after scoring 2 runs. Virat Kohli was out after scoring 38 runs and Shreyas Iyer was out after scoring 31 runs. After the first day, Rahul was also seen batting in the first session of the second day. But he couldn’t last long on the second day.
Irfan has praised Rahul a lot. “Excellent overhead hits, great ground balls, strong pulls and strong defence,” he wrote in X. Rahul has batted strongly in challenging conditions.” Irfan had shared this post on the first day of the Test match and Rahul completed the century from him on the second day. What is important is that Rahul scored a Test century for the second time in Centurion.
If we look at KL Rahul’s Test career so far, it has been excellent. He has scored 2743 runs in 82 innings of 48 Test matches. During this period he has scored 8 centuries and 13 half-centuries. Rahul’s best score in Tests has been 199 runs. He has also performed well in the ODI and T20 formats.