Rohit Sharma breaks his silence on KL Rahul's prolonged lean patch

second Test against Australia in New Delhi.Rahul's prolonged lean patch has become a huge talking point and the clamours of dropping him from the team has been growing with each passing day.Former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad has launched a scathing attack on Rahul saying, "No top order batsman in atleast last 20 years of Indian cricket has played these many Tests with such a low average."India captain Rohit Sharma broke his silence on Sunday on Rahul and said that the batter needs to devise his own methods of scoring runs on slow turners.

With the young Shubman Gill waiting in the wings despite his golden run across formats, the pressure is increasing on Rahul, who averages less than 35 after 47 Tests, which is poor by any standards."When you are playing on pitches like these, you need to find your methods of scoring runs," Rohit said about Rahul, whose sequence of scores in last seven innings read 22, 23, 10, 2, 20, 17 and 1.

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