India vs South Africa: Three players who can replace injured KL Rahul in the Squad

 India vs South Africa: Three players who can replace injured KL Rahul in the Squad

Team India is looking to continue their dominance in the shortest format of the game as they will host South Africa from 9 June 2022. This series will consist of five T20I series as both teams will look at it as an opportunity ahead of this year’s mega-event later this year. Both teams announced their squads earlier as Team India rested some big names like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. 

Both teams prioritised players based on their performance in the recently concluded Indian T20 League. Players like Umran Malik and Arshdeep Singh were added to the Indian squad while the Proteas put faith in Quinton de Kock and David Miller for their recent show in that league. However, on 8 June, KL Rahul got ruled out of the series due to an injury. Therefore, Rishabh Pant was handed over with captaincy duties and still, any replacement is yet to be announced by the Indian Cricket Board.

Here are the three players who can replace injured KL Rahul for the series

Rahul Tripathi

Rahul Tripathi enjoyed another great Indian T20 Leauge season for his new franchise Hyderabad, batting at no.3. His contribution was instrumental in managing this franchise’s winning streak of five matches this year.

In 14 innings, he scored 413 runs at an average of 37.54 with a strike rate of 158.23. His batting ability under pressure impressed the whole cricket fraternity and he was tipped to be part of National colours very shortly.    

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