End of the road for Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara?

A few days back after their umpteenth failure Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane were trending on social media with the hashtag being lsquoPuRanersquo oldNow social media is a platform for outrage almost 24x7 and it is very easy to call the latest trend as the ldquoproverbial outside noiserdquo which the Indian cricket team management does not like taking note ofBut after five failures in six completed knocks in South Africa the two veterans surely seem to have played their last Test for India for some timeIt will be a travesty if two among the trio of Hanuma Vihari Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill recovering from a shin injury donrsquot make it to the playing XI in the twoTest series against Sri Lanka in FebruaryMarch Rahanersquos tally stands at 136 at an average of 2266 and Pujara is even worse with only 124 at 2066 In all likelihood the statistics will be the final nail in the coffin when Chetan Sharma and his colleagues pick the squad for the next Test series in IndiaMore than anyone else the duo knows that time indeed has run out for them Never ever has Indian cricket establishment given such a long rope to two individuals like the one being given to Rahane and PujaraIn last two years they have failed consistently and found success not even sporadically whereas it should have been the other way roundIt seemed that team management as well as selectors were bent on giving them every chance to succeed Perhaps now stakeholders would think that itrsquos time Vihari and Iyer get half of those chances to fail One can vouch they wouldnrsquot do much worse than what Rahane and Pujara have doneSo what is the problem with Pujara and Rahane Itrsquos a twofold issue of technical issues which have also been compounded by mental cobwebsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever