However, the right-handed batter was only given one game, in which he scored eight runs on twenty balls in two innings. While Chopra expressed his delight at Rahane’s inclusion in the WTC final, he was critical of the selectors’ handling of Suryakumar.
Suryakumar has recently fallen short of expectations. He scored 123 runs in six IPL 2023 matches for the Mumbai Indians. Rahane, on the other hand, is the third highest-scoring player in the current IPL season, with 209 runs in 5 games. He has a 52.25 average and a strike rate of 199.05.
Rahane scored 634 runs in 11 innings for Mumbai in the recently concluded Ranji Trophy, averaging 57.63. He struck two hundreds, including a double hundred (204), in those 11 innings. His campaign average was higher than his career First Class average of 47.12.
