KL, playing a role of an opener and an elderly, wise statesman, within a team full of youngsters and a team with some players with experience level as much or more than him, will be aiming to continue this career-defining series going at the venue where he has some fond memories, having smas
KL Rahul continued his fine overseas run in Test cricket, becoming only the second Indian opener after legendary Sunil Gavaskar to score 10 or more scores of fifty-plus in South Africa, England, New Zealand and South Africa (SENA) countries.
After playing a solid knock of 42 runs in the first innings, but missing out on scoring big in the first innings, KL made the most of all chances he got, scoring an unbeaten 120* in 227 balls, with 15 fours by the end of the second session. His runs came at a strike rate of 52.86.
Playing on a tough Centurion surface, coming to the crease at 92/4, the middle-order batter batted for most of his knock with lower middle-order/lower-order batters to register a memorable comeback ton.