Opening the innings, KL Rahul scored 100. He brought up his century with a six in the first ODI against Zimbabwe. (Source: Reuters) It was a dream debut for opener Lokesh TILL THAT point, no batsman had managed to clear the boundary on Saturday. Far from it. Nobody had even come close. It wasn’t that kind of a day. It wasn’t that kind of a match. If anything, the action for a major part of the day seemed like a throwback to a much gentler epoch of ODI cricket, when ball actually beat bat as often as the other way around and sixes were a novelty. A period in...
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