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‘Ab Sasur ko muh kaise dikhaega?’ - Fans react to KL Rahul getting demoted from Grade A to B in Indian Cricket Board’s Central contract

Here is how fans have reacted to the news of KL Rahul getting demoted from Grade A to B in the annual contract of the Board

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KL Rahul has recently been in the headlines for his lack of performances for team India across all three formats. In Rohit's absence, he was the skipper in the Test series in Bangladesh. He led the team to a 2-0 victory but failed as an individual batter. Then, he failed miserably in the home ODI series against the Lankans.

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Rahul managed only one fifty-plus score in that three-match series. So, fans were wondering if he would get a chance in the squad for the Test and ODI series against the Aussies at home. KL Rahul managed to get a place and he played the first two matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 

KL Rahul has been struggling recently for team India across all three formats 

In those matches, he scored only 38 runs in three innings. Then, team India went with youngster Shubman Gill over him as the opener for the next two matches. Before the series, many former Indian cricketers like Harbhajan Singh and Kapil Dev claimed that the Men in Blue should give Gill more chance ahead of KL Rahul to get a better balance within the team. During the series, the former team India pacer, Venkatesh Prasad also came up with an allegation of favourism over the Indian Cricket Board.

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He shared some stats on Twitter and compared Rahul’s performances with other star batters. He blamed the team management favoured him despite his poor run of form in several matches. In the ODI series against the Aussies, he scored a match-winning fifty-plus score to win a game but failed to show consistency in the next two matches. Now, on 26 March, another bad news came for the star Indian batter as he got demoted from Grade A to Grade B. So, KL Rahul will now get INR 3 Crores as an annual salary. Seeing that demotion, fans went crazy and shared their views on the social media platform.

Here is how fans have reacted to the news of Rahul getting demoted:

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