If Shubman Gill is not at number three in the second test, then who will be the contender, this player's name is at the forefront.

Cricket News Desk. A five-match Test series is going on between India and Australia. The second match of the series will now be played in Adelaide, which will be the Pink Ball Test. The return of regular captain Rohit Sharma for this match has worried the team management. However, the team is still under stress due to Shubman Gill's injury. After being out of the first match, Gill is not expected to play in the second match. With Rohit's return, he will surely open the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal, forcing KL Rahul, who opened in the last match, to play in a different position.

It is almost certain that either Dhruv Jurel or Devdutt Padikal will get a chance in Adelaide. In such a situation, Rahul can be seen playing at number three, due to which Padikal will have to sit out. Gill has been asked to rest for about 2 weeks. This means that he will not be able to play the match even against India A's Prime Minister's XI.

Rahul showed his strength in Perth test

KL Rahul was in his best form in the Perth Test when he opened for India along with Jaiswal. In the first inning, he played a brilliant inning of 26 runs and in the second inning, he scored a strong inning of 77 runs with his bat. He made a 201-run partnership with Yashasvi in ​​India's second innings, which is the highest opening partnership by an Indian batsman in Australia.

Rahul-Yashasvi made many records
Here he left behind the record of Sunil Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth, who had added 191 runs for the first wicket in the 1986 Sydney Test. Kangaroo fast bowler Mitchell Starc broke the 201-run opening partnership by getting Rahul caught out on the last ball of the 63rd over. During this innings, the Rahul-Yashvi pair also formed India's first 100-plus opening partnership in Test cricket in Australia since 2004. The last pair to do so was Virender Sehwag and Aakash Chopra, who added 123 runs in the Sydney Test during India's 2003–04 tour of Australia.