Okay.L. Rahul and Vidwath Kaverappa had been again in Karnataka colors within the crew’s coaching session right here on Tuesday. The duo is ready to characteristic in Karnataka’s essential Elite ‘C’ group stage match towards Haryana which commences right here on Thursday.
Rahul’s final Ranji Trophy look got here in February 2020. The batter, who performed all 5 Assessments in Australia not too long ago, is prone to open the batting for Karnataka.
Kaverappa, a constant performer, makes his comeback from harm. Kaverappa joins a high-quality Karnataka tempo lineup consisting of Prasidh Krishna, V. Koushik, Abhilash Shetty and Yashovardhan Parantap. V. Vyshak stays unavailable attributable to an harm.
Rahul batted within the KSCA ‘B’ floor, earlier than shifting to the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium most important floor for a catching session. Kaverappa bowled at full tilt, and had successful within the nets.
Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal was happy to have his previous mate Rahul again. “I actually take pleasure in taking part in with Okay.L. (Rahul). I’ve little question in my thoughts that when he’s right here he’s going to place in these performances and add loads of worth,” Mayank mentioned.
Mayank acknowledged that Kaverappa is “hungry” to get into the thick of issues once more. “Once I spoke to him (Kaverappa), he was actually trying ahead to coming again and taking part in some video games. Figuring out his perspective – he’s very hungry, he all the time desires to exit and provides his finest and carry out for the crew. We’ve seen that over the past couple of years, so we’re glad to have him again,” Mayank mentioned.
On the worth of getting a close to full power squad, Mayank mentioned, “Even within the Vijay Hazare Trophy, when Prasidh (Krishna) and Devdutt (Padikkal) got here again, the perspective they’d was phenomenal. It boosted our crew, and raised the depth of every participant. With Vidwath and Rahul again, that very same depth will make it higher for all of us,” Mayank mentioned.