KL Rahul during his innings of 85 in the third Test v Sri Lanka at Kandy last August. Pic/Getty Images

KL Rahul, the man who scored six half-centuries from seven innings during the four-Test series between India and Australia at home last year, has also got a T20I ton besides averaging 35 from 10 ODIs. But for all that, he was left out of the first Test in South Africa while for an ODI series in Sri Lanka, he was the No. 4 batsman, given one or two chances and then cast aside.