'Wo aaye aur bhumi pujan karke chale gaye' - Fans lash out at KL Rahul for yet another early departure against Bangladesh

Indian team’s stand-in skipper and senior batter KL Rahul is once again on the receiving end of harsh criticism from the Indian cricket fans following another poor display of batting against Bangladesh. He failed once again to live up to the expectations in the ongoing Test series against Bangladesh. The 30-year-old fell prey to Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam in the early hours of the first session second day of the Mirpur Test.

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KL Rahul could score only 10 runs and took 45 balls to score the same having only one boundary to his name.

Yet another continuous poor display from the Karnataka batter didn’t go down well with the Indian cricket fans. They immediately took to Twitter to lash out at him followed by a criticism of the Indian team management for giving more than enough chances to KL Rahul.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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वो आए और भूमी पूजन करके चले गए#KLRahul #INDvBAN2nd Test pic.twitter.com/gTOBqv5sab

— LUCHA WARRIOR GAMING (@LuchaWarrior) December 23, 2022

If u make a fool cricketer as captains then he will do whatever he wants #KLRahul. The real 🐐 of over confidence

— Abhi (@abhinay4cs) December 23, 2022

Its time for #KLRahul to quit test cricket and concentrate on his wedding and family... #worstPlayer #worstcaptain #worststrategy #worstMindSet.. please help @BCCI..

— LiveNLetLive (@LiveNLetLiveOk) December 23, 2022

Its time for #KLRahul to quit test cricket and concentrate on his wedding and family... #worstPlayer #worstcaptain #worststrategy #worstMindSet.. please help @BCCI..

— LiveNLetLive (@LiveNLetLiveOk) December 23, 2022

Kick this selfish, fraud, bc out of the team @klrahul #KLRahul

— Anshuman Tripathy (@Anshuma73266462) December 23, 2022

He is fighting for his place, underperformed, and is the most overrated player ever. #KLRahul

— Girish (@crazygireesh8) December 23, 2022

some of our best intact Good Players apart from #klrahul waiting for Opening slot or waiting for an opportunity or still else Some new Rookies from Domestic Level Playing with their heart since childhood to Represent the nation🇮🇳 @bhogleharsha @vikrantgupta73

— John_PA1 (@Pa1John) December 23, 2022

I am very surprised,why this guy getting this much opportunities,definitely he is not worth it for playing in indian cricket team pathetic @klrahul @BCCI #klrahul

— MAHESH (@Maheshgnanaiya) December 23, 2022

Indian Cricket Team needs a smart captain to lead in all three formats.#KLRahul is a worst option.
BCCI should find a best player to Captian Indian team immediately.#INDvBAN

— Viraj Sabnis (@virajsabnis) December 23, 2022

Vaise vo agressive cricket ka kya hua?#CricketTwitter #Cricket #KLRahul #INDvBAN #indvsbang

— Apoorv Kalla (@Apoorvk18) December 23, 2022

KL Rahul is quick in all three formats like the England team, They score quick runs in all three formats and Kalu gets quickly out in all three formats. Kalu the legend #KLRahul 🤣🤣🤣

— Yuvraj Thakur (@uvshimla) December 23, 2022

Speaking of the current updates of the ongoing first session of the Mirpur Test, the visitors have lost three wickets on the score of 86 runs. Taijul Islam provided two early breakthroughs to Bangladesh in the 14^th and 16^th over of the Indian innings. He trapped both Indian openers KL Rahul and Shubman Gill in his spin web. The 23-year-old also failed to repeat his heroic display of the first Test’s second innings and went back to the pavilion only on the score of 20 runs.

In the recent setback for the Indian team, they lost the senior specialist batter Cheteshwar Pujara who also fell prey to Taijul Islam. Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant and former skipper Virat Kohli were unbeaten on the individual scores of 18 and 12 runs at the time of Lunch on the second day.

Earlier, the visitors’ bowling bundled up Bangladesh only on the score of 227 runs, thanks to the brilliant bowling performances from the senior lads, Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav. The former scalped 4 wickets by conceding 71 runs in 21.5 overs alongside Umesh who scalped as many wickets by conceding only 25 runs in 15 overs.

Comeback man of India, Jaydev Unadkat also scalped two wickets and contributed in the early wrap of the batting lineup of the hosts.