After Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) 14-run loss towards Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) within the Eliminator at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday, many lovers and professionals have come down exhausting on LSG skipper KL Rahul for his knock.

In a knockout sport, Rahul, all over his facet’s mammoth chase of 208, top-scored with 79 off 58 balls, but it surely wasn’t sufficient. The suitable-handed batter fell within the nineteenth over to Josh Hazlewood, and sooner or later, LSG misplaced the fit and were given crashed out of the 15th season of the cash-rich league.

Many professionals raised questions on the best way Rahul paced his innings, together with former Indian cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar. The cricketer-turned-commentator noticed that as an alternative of taking part in longer, Rahul will have to’ve curious about taking part in faster.

“Okay.L Rahul himself has the power to do this. Each and every time he made up our minds to play the massive shot, it got here off. He performed a few terrific photographs towards (Josh) Hazelwood. He can do it when he needs to, however he simply has this very deep-rooted trust, or an angle, or an means, that he needs to bat longer relatively than faster,” stated Manjrekar at the T20 Time-Out display on ESPNCricinfo.

“If I used to be his trainer, I’d just take that call out of his hand despite the fact that he’s the captain, for we’ve noticed a large number of video games the place the groups would receive advantages immensely if Okay.L Rahul simply batted faster relatively than longer,” he added.

Manjrekar drew comparisons with the likes of MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma and reckoned that Rahul is ‘temperamentally now not suited’ for the duty of being the principle batter, particularly when he’s captaining within the IPL.

“We’ve noticed sufficient of KL Rahul to now know that after he turns into this participant, the captain, the important thing participant of the facet. I imply, Virat Kohli loves that roughly duty. Dhoni liked it. I believe Rohit Sharma, barring this season, most often likes that roughly duty,” asserted the 56-year-old.

“Perhaps Okay.L Rahul temperamentally isn’t fitted to take this sort of duty the place he’s the person who has were given to get the activity carried out. They’re simply made of various mettle, and perhaps Okay.L Rahul isn’t,” Manjrekar added additional.