'I am working on my strike-rate' - KL Rahul after Rohit Sharma confirms his name as first-choice opener for T20 World Cup 2022

KL Rahul isn't having good times with the bat since returning from injury. He didn't have a great Asia Cup despite scoring a half-century in the final Super Four game against Afghanistan. His form and slow batting caught a lot of attention. There were even calls for Virat Kohli replacing him as an opener after the former skipper scored a scintillating ton against Afghanistan opening the innings.

However, Rohit Sharma rubbished all the talks and confirmed KL Rahul as India's first-choice opener for the upcoming T20 World Cup. The latter has now admitted his issues with the strike-rate stating that he is working on the strike-rate aspect of his game. Rahul himself had once stated that 'strike-rate is very very over-rated in T20 Cricket'.

"Yes, it (strike-rate) is something that I am working on. Obviously with the roles that have been defined for each player in the last 10-12 months, you know very clearly and the player understands what is expected out of them and everyone's working towards it," he said while speaking to the reporters on the eve of the first T20I against Australia.

No one in the dressing room is perfect, says Rahul

KL Rahul further mentioned that every player in the dressing room is working on his game and that no one is perfect. He also went on to say that a batter has to play according to the situation and at times, one can win his team a game by scoring runs at a stirke-rate of 100 or 120 too.

"No one is perfect. No one in the dressing room is perfect. Everyone's working towards something, everyone has a certain role to do. Obviously, strike-rates are taken on an overall basis. You'll never see when that batsman has played at a certain strike-rate, whether it was important for him to play at a 200-strike rate, or whether the team could have still won playing at a 100-120 strike rate. So these are things that not everybody analyses. That's why when you look at it, it looks slow," India's vice-captain added.