KL Rahul walks off field injured during India’s match simulation session in Perth

According to reporters astatine the venue, Rahul was deed connected his close forearm/elbow disconnected a bumpy abbreviated delivery. Though helium tried to resume his batting aft immoderate assistance from the physio, Rahul decided to locomotion disconnected the field.

KL Rahul’s not looking precise comfy aft being struck connected his close elbow/forearm disconnected a rising delivery. Tried to resume batting by shaking it disconnected but intelligibly couldn’t. And present leaving with the physio #AusvInd pic.twitter.com/JFivRNx7af

— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07) November 15, 2024

The Karnataka batter has been riding a unsmooth spot aft being initially slated for a middle-order spot earlier India’s location Test bid against New Zealand with the backing from skipper Rohit and caput manager Gautam Gambhir.

Rahul was, however, dropped aft the archetypal Test successful Bengaluru earlier India suffered a harrowing 3-0 bid defeat. He was past drafted into the India A squad for the 2nd unofficial crippled precocious against Australia A successful Melbourne.

Rahul had a torrid outing aft helium was moved backmost to the apical of the bid successful an opening audition alongside Abhimanyu Easwaran, who was picked successful India’s Test squad arsenic back-up for Rohit. Rahul managed scores of 4 and 10 portion besides being criticised for a comical dismissal against spinner Corey Rocchiccioli, offering nary changeable to a fuller transportation that castled him astir his legs.

Rahul, who averages 33.87 aft 51 Tests, has lone aggregated 187 runs successful 9 innings successful Australia.