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Legendary Australian cricket crew batter Matthew Hayden made a hilarious gaffe on stay air when he mentioned that he needs Rahul Dravid as a substitute of KL Rahul whereas speaking about India’s crew choice for the third Check match. Hayden was analysing India’s loss within the pink-ball Check and his fumble left Gavaskar in splits. The remark got here after Gavaskar mentioned that Rohit shouldn’t bat at No. 6 and return to opening the batting for India as he’s already affected by a number of confidence resulting from his lack of kind.
“I think he should come back to opening for the next Test because he likes the ball to come onto the bat. This innings, one can understand, because he hadn’t played for a while, and Rahul and Jaiswal had a 200-run partnership in the previous game. But Rahul can come down the order and face the second new ball. I’m being optimistic that India will bat so well in the next game that Rahul will take care of the second new ball,” he mentioned.
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) December 10, 2024
Hayden was not on the identical web page as Gavaskar and we went to say that India shouldn’t make a hasty change to the taking part in XI. He additionally backed the “technically-sound” Rahul to proceed as opener however ended up saying “Rahul Dravid” rather than “KL Rahul”.
“I’ll be slightly more stubborn. I will not be changing at this stage. I know you would like a better outcome inside the top three. But from what I saw in Perth, technically, Rahul Dravid is right there. He just needs to do it for a longer,” Hayden defined.
As quickly as Hayden completed his evaluation, Gavaskar taunted the Australia legend as he mentioned – “I would love it if it was Rahul Dravid, as you said, but it is KL Rahul.”
Hayden was left in splits as he mentioned that Dravid’s centuries on the Adelaide Oval “still haunts him”.
“Sorry, KL Rahul. My apologies. I was thinking of when he dominated here in Adelaide and got us smashed in 2003/04 series. That’s a nightmare I’m stull living,” he mentioned.
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