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KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma will not play in Sri Lanka’s home series

India skipper Rohit Sharma and opener batsmen KL Rahul are probably going to miss the home series against Sri Lanka in January, as per a report.

• ANI sources

India skipper Rohit Sharma and opener batsmen KL Rahul are probably going to miss the home series against Sri Lanka in January, as per a report. The report expressed that Rohit is yet to Recovering totally from the thumb injury during the second ODI against Bangladesh prior in December, according to ANI sources in BCCI.

KL Rahul will get married during the time of the series, added the sources. Sri Lanka will visit India from January 3 to January 15 for three T20Is and three ODIs. Prominently, KL and Rohit didn’t have a great year with the bat in 2022.

• Talking about Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma a long time in 2022 to live up to his tag as ‘Hitman’. In two Tests this year, Rohit scored 90 runs at a normal of 30, with the best score of 46.

In eight ODIs, he scored 249 runs at a normal of 41.50, with three half-centuries of years and a best of 76*.

Rohit scored 656 runs in 29 T20I innings this year at a normal of 24.29 and strike rate of 134.42, with three half-centuries of years and the best score of 72.

Generally speaking, in 40 innings this year, Rohit scored 995 runs, failing to cross the 1000-run mark. These runs came at a normal of 27.63, with six fifties. Interestingly starting around 2012, he didn’t score a international hundred years for a whole year.

• This year KL Rahul average

Then again, KL Rahul played four Tests this year in which he scored 137 runs at a average of 17.12, with one fifty. This year, he has the best Test score of 50.

In 10 ODIs this year, he scored 251 runs at a normal-average of 27.88, with two half-centuries of years and the best score of 73.

In 16 T20Is this year, he scored 434 runs at a normal-average of 28.93 and six half-centuries of years, with a best score of 62.

Generally in 30 matches this year, Rahul has scored 822 runs at a normal-average of 25.68, with nine half-centuries of years.