India has won their first match against the West Indies in the T20 Series. Surya Kumar Yadav opened the innings with Rohit Sharma and played really well inning.
KL Rahul is injured and did not play a single in T20 International is 2022. He is also out of the series against the West Indies and that is why Surya Kumar Yadav has opened the innings with Rohit Sharma.
Surya Kumar Yadav made 24 runs out of 16 balls in which he had 3 boundaries and one six. Team India won this match by 68 runs due to Rohit Sharma’s half-century and the high scoring aggressive played by Dinesh Kartik who made 41 runs. India made a total of 190 runs while the West Indies could only score 122.
The T20 World Cup is going to start in October-November in Australia. Indian management is looking for the replacement of KL Rahul if we will not get well at that time and there have been a total of seven players have been testing for the opening with Rohit Sharma.
As an option to the KL Rahul The Other player that has been tested are Surya Kumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Rituraj Gaikwad, Sanju Samsun, Deepak Hooda and Rishabh pant.
Ishan has scored three half-centuries in his 13 T20 International and Rituraj Gaikwad has scored one century in 6 matches and Sanju Samson has scored one half century in his two matches. Also, Deepak Hooda has made 47 runs in one of his innings and pant has got 27 runs in 2 matches and Surya Kumar Yadav has scored 24 runs in one match.
Captain Rohit Sharma hasn’t played really well in T20 International in 2022 and he has scored his first half century in this year in T20 International. He has called 239 runs in nine matches at an average of 27 with a strike rate of 141.
If we talk about KL Rahul, his T20 record is amazing. In IPL 2022 he scored 2 centuries and made more than 600 runs but before T20 world cup he got injured and will be playing in the T20 World Cup if he gets well.