Rajat Patidar became a victim of bad luck in his debut test, you will also say OMG
Rajat Patidar out India vs England : Today was a special day for Rajat Patidar. It is a wonderful moment for any player to play for his country. Rajat Patidar has played ODI before, but this is his debut in Test. Anyway, Test cricket is closest to Rajat Patidar, he has already revealed this. He was batting well in the very first match, he did not make any mistakes, but in a moment something happened that he had to be out. It would be really unfortunate to be out like this.
This is how Rajat Patidar got out in his debut test.
Rajat Patidar got a chance to make his Test debut in the India vs England Visakhapatnam Test. He came to bat at number 5. On one end was the young Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was not very experienced yet, but had played more matches than Rajat and proved himself. In such a situation, batting was not a difficult task for him. Yes, it is true that any player is a little nervous during his test debut. He had also scored 32 runs. But then he had to be out. Actually, Rajat played a defensive shot on the ball of Rehan Ahmed, but after hitting the bat, the ball started going towards the stump. After a few seconds, Rajat’s eyes went in that direction and he tried to stop it with his foot, but the ball had already hit the stumps with his foot and he was out.
Rajat Patidar scored 32 runs in the first match
Rajat Patidar, as we told you, scored 32 runs before getting out. For this he faced 72 balls. Three fours came from his bat. Perhaps no one has any control over the way Rajat got out. But in the very first innings, Rajat proved that he is an excellent batsman at the international level and can become a reliable player in the future. However, he still has the second innings, where he can prove his usefulness by scoring more runs.
Rajat Patidar’s first cricket statistics
Talking about Rajat Patidar’s first-class cricket statistics, he has scored 4000 runs in 55 matches. Here his average is 45.97 and he is scoring runs at a strike rate of 53.48. He has 12 centuries and 22 half-centuries to his name in first-class matches. Looking at these figures, he got a chance to be selected in the Test team of Team India. Now it will be interesting to see how he performs for the Indian team in the coming times.
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