KL Rahul

During Maharaj's arrival to the crease, as the song played in the background, former Indian captain Virat Kohli enjoyed it in particular as he made actions to pull a bow and arrow, and later did 'namaste' to honour Lord Ram.

India is going with four seamers Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, and Mohammed Siraj while three spinners Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav.

Aakash Chopra even called Venkatesh Prasad an agenda peddler and accused him of pushing some personal agenda for questioning spot of KL Rahul.

Venkatesh Prasad said, in a response to Aakash Chopra "The argument that we should not criticize a player in an ongoing match personally doesn’t make sense to me."

"There is a view that KL Rahul has an outstanding overseas Test record. But stats speak otherwise. He has a test avg of 30 overseas in 56 inning", Prasad tweeted.

After KL Rahul's horrid run in international cricket continued as the batter failed to fire with his willow, India captain Rohit Sharma defended the opener

Venkatesh Prasad slammed the selectors for ignoring players who have been performing consistently in the domestic circuit and making them wait for a place in the national Test side.

"I don't know who is really an Argentina or a France supporter so we will just enjoy the game today. We will all watch the game together and we will have a good meal and watch the game", KL Rahul said

A Jodhpur Court on Tuesday granted relief to cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul and film director Karan Johar, in a case that was registered against the trio, for some offensive remarks made on the talk show “Koffee with Karan,” hosted by Karan Johar.

KL Rahul has sustained a muscle strain on his left thigh and has been ruled out of the upcoming 2-test match series against NZ