Twitter feels KL Rahul's Test career is over as Mayank Agarwal shines on debut

Team India took a brave call to completely revamp their opening duo for the third and most important Test match of the series. The visitors handed over an international debut to Mayank Agarwal who came into the squad for Prithvi Shaw and promoted Hanuma Vihari, only 2 Tests old, to open the innings. This step was a forced one thanks to KL Rahul and Murali Vijay who didn’t do much in the four innings at the top of the order.

Mayank, however, grabbed his chance and rose to the occasion in front of close to 70,000 spectators at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. The 295th Test player for India showed nerves of steel and showed good technique against the new ball. He faced Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood with the new cherry and played some exquisite strokes.

The debutant went into the lunch unscathed and proved that he belongs at the highest level and went on to score a half-century as well.

End of the road for Rahul?

Mayank Agarwal continued to bat well in the post-lunch session and handled Nathan Lyon really well stepping out of his crease to him. He also smacked him for a six before going on to hit a couple of boundaries straight down the ground. Just when it looked like Agarwal will go past the three-figure mark on his debut, Pat Cummins got the better of him at the stroke of Tea.

Nevertheless, he scored 76 off 161 deliveries and justified his selection in the Test side. Immediate success for Mayank has put KL Rahul’s Test career in the doldrums now and it will be interesting to see if he is even retained in the squad now for the next Test series. Twitterati also contemplated over the same and trolled Rahul feeling that Agarwal should’ve replaced him long ago.

Here’s how Twitter reacted:

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