Rajkot, Jan. 14 -- After New Zealand secured a seven-wicket win in the second ODI of the three-match series, India's assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate hailed wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul, who notched up his eighth ODI century.

During the post-match press-conference, ten Doeschate hailed Rahul's ton as "a quality hundred." The assistant coach also spoke on the strategies for playing all-rounders at the sixth, seventh, and eighth positions, with Rahul taking the number five slot in the batting order.

"I mean, KL Rahul is certainly good enough to be a number five, that's a quality hundred. I guess one of our strategies in the last 18 months has been to prolong that batting order, and we do like to use the all-rounder either high up the or...