Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar heaped praise on opener KL Rahul after his match-winning performance in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Centurion, saying the right-hander would be raining "centuries after centuries" as he has found form with the bat.
Rahul has been scoring runs consistently in Test cricket and he has yet again played a key role in India’s maiden victory in Centurion, smashing 123 and 23 in both innings to help the tourists beat South Africa by 113 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the ongoing three-match Test series.
Notably, Rahul had been inconsistent with the bat in the longest format for the past 2-3 years since making his Test debut in 2014, but he has now cemented his place as the first-choice opener in the Test side and the legendary said his century in Centurion would provide him with much-needed momentum.
Gavaskar said on Star Sports: “He has always been a very very talented cricketer. Perhaps, he might agree with me that after he made his debut in 2016-17 (2014) and then those two or three years in between, he might have been an underachiever. But now that he has got his mojo back, now that he has got his confidence back, I expect him to rain centuries after centuries because he has got his hunger.”
He signed off by saying, “Once you got the taste of what a Test century means.. the pleasure of lifting the bat to the crowd or the changing room…the entire change room applauding you, these are the moments that every cricketer or batsmen savor. Now that he has got the taste of it, we can expect hundreds from KL Rahul's bat.”
