Auckland: It now looks a bit strange that the man in form in white-ball cricket will be coming back to India next week while youngsters like Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill will be part of the Test squad for the two-match series. Of course, you can't blame selectors for ignoring KL Rahul for Test matches as he failed to go past 50 in the last 12 innings since his 149 at the Oval in England in 2018. However, it can be argued that now especially after Rohit Sharma's forced departure because of injury, Rahul should have stayed in NZ for the remainder of the series.

"You want to capitalise on form like this. You have seen it in the past too, that players have been drafted in a particular squad based on their form. Why not KL Rahul? After this innings, even the team management, the selectors must be thinking, 'okay, maybe we have been harsh on him. Maybe, we should have just given him the opportunity in Rohit Sharma's absence," said former India pacer Zaheer Khan on Cricbuzz.