By After registering scores of 1 and 0 in the first two matches, India decided to give KL Rahul another chance to turn things around. But unfortunately for both, it wasn’t to be. In fact, Rahul on Tuesday became the fifth India batsman in history to register back-to-back ducks in T20Is. Before him, Ambati Rayudu, Ashish Nehra, Yusuf Pathan have been dismissed for consecutive ducks, while Washington Sundar is the only player to have recorded a hat-trick of ducks.
Rahul played four balls before being bowled by England pacer Mark Wood, who fired the ball at almost 150 clicks. The ball pitched and moved back in, beating Rahul’s defence and giving the batsman his second duck of the series. With his dismissal, Rahul has now been bowled for the eighth time in T20Is and has the most ducks in a bilateral T20I series among Indian openers (2).
This is Rahul’s three duck in four innings. In Rahul’s last T20I innings before the start of the England series, he was dismissed for a second-ball duck against Australia in the third match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in December. Rahul’s dismissal left India at 7/1, before things worsened for the home team. Rahul’s dismissal was followed by the wicket of the returning Rohit Sharma for 15, who miscued Wood to Jofra Archer.
