Things are not looking good for the Indian team. KL Rahul suffered an injury during the ongoing intra-squad match in Perth. He left the ground after taking a blow to the elbow.

Bharat Sundaresan, the sports journalist in Australia, took to X to give an update on Rahul’s incident. He tried to stay on but couldn’t and left with the physio. He is the front-runner to open with Yashasvo Jaiswal in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as a regular opener, and captain Rohit Sharma is likely to miss the contest due to personal reasons.

Rahul has been going through a prolonged lean patch in Test cricket and couldn’t score runs in India A’s second unofficial Test against Australia A. He played in the first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru but was benched for the remaining games due to his poor returns with the bat.

Former India player Sanjay Manjrekar has questioned the selectors and team management for giving preference to Rahul over others. He didn’t want KL to be part of the Test team and highlighted his batting average in the format.