IND vs SA: KL Rahul is Team India's 'Man of Crisis', batting coach Rathore enumerated his specialties

India's batting faltered on the first day of the first Test against South Africa, but thanks to KL Rahul's unbeaten half-century, Team India's score crossed 200 by the end of the day's play. After the match, Indian batting coach Vikram Rathore praised KL Rahul's brilliant innings. Indian batsmen had to struggle a lot on the first day to deal with the African pace attack. Team India was on the back foot after the top order returned to the pavilion early. Four wickets had fallen within 100 runs. Then, KL Rahul came to the crease. He held one end. By the end of the first day's play, Rahul had scored 70 not out. He hit 10 fours and two sixes in his innings of 105 balls.

Indian coach Vikram Rathore has described KL Rahul as the 'troubleshooter' of Team India. Rathore said that I think he is a 'man of crisis' for us. Most of the time he stands for the team in difficult situations. Rahul is a player who handles those situations well. He knows how to defend good balls. Whereas runs have to be scored on bad balls.

Coach Rathore said that the conditions for batting were difficult. By lunch we had lost three wickets and the score was only 91 runs. There was a good partnership between Kohli and Iyer. The coach believes that despite the early collapse, India made a brilliant comeback by the end of the day's play. India scored 208 runs for 8 wickets on the first day of the rain-interrupted first Test. KL Rahul is unbeaten on 70 runs.