Champions Trophy 2025: In the Champions Trophy 2025, Team India has entered with two wicketkeeper batsmen KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant. However, so far Rishabh Pant has not got a chance to play in the playing eleven of any match. In all four matches, the captain and coach have expressed confidence in KL Rahul only. There were many questions in the minds of the fans about this as to why Pant is not being given a chance in a single match. Regarding this, now Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir has made it clear why Rahul is the first choice of Team India instead of Pant.
After defeating Australia in the semi-finals, Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir said about KL Rahul, "KL's average in one-day cricket is 50, that's the answer. I don't care what people say about it, how they talk about it, do they have any agenda. My job is to be honest with 140 crore Indians and my players in the dressing room."
Although Virat Kohli played the highest innings of 84 runs in the semi-final, but after Kohli's wicket fell, the heartbeat of Indian fans increased a bit. On the other hand, Rahul, who was batting on the other side, had something else in his mind.
Rahul wanted to leave the field only after making Team India win and he did so. In the semi-finals, KL Rahul played an unbeaten innings of 42 runs in 34 balls. During this innings, Rahul hit 2 sixes and 2 fours. Apart from this, Rahul is also doing wicketkeeping very well.
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