This player is going to take a break after Border-Gavaskar Trophy, will not participate in this tournament

MN news January 7, 2025

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Indian batsman KL Rahul

KL Rahul miss Vijay Hazare Trophy knockout Matches: The Indian team had to face a crushing defeat of 1-3 against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Team India had won the first test by a huge margin of 295 runs, but after that the Indian team’s train derailed. Similarly, star batsman KL Rahul batted well in the first two Tests of the series, but in the subsequent matches, runs stopped coming from his bat. Now after the completion of the series against Australia, Rahul will take a break.

Rahul will not play knock out matches of Vijay Hazare Trophy

According to the report of Sportstar, KL Rahul will not play for Karnataka in the knockout round matches of Vijay Hazare Trophy. He is going to take leave for some time. But in the report of Sportstar, no reason has been given for his taking leave. A decision on Rahul’s availability for the second phase of the Ranji Trophy, starting on January 23, will be taken later.

Karnataka team will play quarter final against Vadodara

Karnataka team will play the quarter-final match of Vijay Hazare Trophy against Vadodara team from January 11 and Rahul is going to take a break for this. Even if the Karnataka team progresses by winning the quarter-finals, they will not take part in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He took part in all five Test matches against Australia and scored a total of 276 runs, which included two half-centuries. He opened and batted at number 3 for the Indian team.

On the other hand, Devdutt Padikkal and fast bowler Prasidh Krishna who were with Team India in Australia. He will be available for Karnataka team for the quarter final match. Devdutt played his first test against Australia. Whereas Krishna got a chance in the fifth test match.

Karnataka team:

Mayank Agarwal (captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Nikin Jose, K.V. Anish, R. Smaran, K.L. Srijit, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal (vice-captain), Hardik Raj, Prasidh Krishna, V. Kaushik, Vidyadhar Patil, Abhilash Shetty, Praveen Dubey, Lavnith Sisodia, Yashovardhan Parantap.