South Africa vs India 2018: 5 reasons Indian management should choose Rahul over Dhawan

Form

Rahul would look to carry his scintillating form into the South Africa series

KL has been in superb form in Test cricket of late. His exemplary run of form reads - 64, 10, 90, 51, 67, 60, 51*, 57, 85, 0, 79, 7. That's 9 half-centuries in his last 12 Test innings and 8 fifty-plus scores in his last ten knocks, all of which have come at an average of 51.75 per innings.

Rahul, carried this superlative test match form into the most recently concluded Sri Lanka T20 series where he made 154 runs at an impressive average of 51.33. He silently went about his game playing second fiddle to Rohit Shama's 118 and Yuzvendra Chahal's 4 wicket hauls.

If team India are to make good use of the Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman's rich vein of form, the selectors must give him the green signal to open in South Africa.