The former Indian fast bowler Dodda Ganesh is not amused by the fact that Ajinkya Rahane is still being backed by the Indian team management despite his long time inconsistency in the test match arena.
Ajinkya Rahane has been averaging 33 in test match cricket for the last 5 years, which, considering the calibre he has and the fact that he is representing arguably the best test team in the world, is a fairly low average. But, at no point of time, the Indian selectors or the team management have given the impression that his place is under threat.
Even the new head coach Rahul Dravid threw his weight behind Rahane in the post match press conference after the Kanpur test match where he said that the Indian vice captain would be back among the runs very, very soon and people shouldn’t be worried.
Dodda Ganesh is one of those ex cricketers who are frequent Twitter users
Dodda Ganesh, who didn’t have a long international career, but is someone who is very active on Twitter, quoted a news source of Rahul Dravid’s statement on Twitter and wrote even if a tail-ender is given repeated opportunities with the bat, he will score a fifty at some point.
What Dodda Ganesh meant by his tweet is that just because someone is able to play an extraordinary knock after 15-16 failures, it doesn’t mean he should be kept in the team only for those rare extraordinary knocks.
Even a tail ender can get a 50 once in 15-20 innings. Enough is enough 🙏🏻 https://t.co/a75WW2qsvY
Advertisement— ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಣೇಶ್ | Dodda Ganesh (@doddaganesha) November 29, 2021
While his inconsistency is a matter of much debate at the moment, it’s not that Ajinkya Rahane has never been consistent in his test career. There was a stage when he was averaging more than 50 for India in the longest form of the game.
It’s Rahane’s quality itself which makes it hard for the selectors as well as the management to leave him out, but with the new crop of middle order batsmen emerging now, one will have to agree with Dodda Ganesh that time is running out for Rahane.
