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“(Throughout my) Preliminary days, I’m stunned I hit a six as a result of I used to be not a really robust T20 or ODI participant again then,” stated Rahul, who has performed for 4 IPL groups since making his debut within the league in 2013.
He began his profession as a middle-order batsman, earlier than including wicket-keeping expertise to his resume and likewise reworking his batting to incorporate big-hitting expertise as a way to shed the tag of a Take a look at-match participant.
“Ek tag lag gaya tha ki yeh Take a look at=match participant hai, ye kabhi nahi khel payega one-day ya T20, isme itna talent nahi hai, itna power nahi hai. It took me a very long time to get out of that mould simply to vary folks’s notion about my cricket,” stated Rahul
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It was the 2016 IPL with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) that noticed Rahul break the shackles and emerge as a skillfull white-ball batsman who ultimately earned a spot within the Indian staff and went on to attain a century on his ODI debut.
“In 2016, after I performed the IPL, I had a extremely good yr with RCB and after that I feel folks began seeing KL Rahul as a one-day and T20 participant as effectively. So after a few years of quietly working laborious behind the scenes, I bought my time, bought my highlight,” he added.
After representing RCB to begin his IPL profession, Rahul performed for the Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014 and 2015 and returned to RCB in 2016. From 2018 to 2021, he was a part of the Punjab Kings (earlier Kings XI Punjab) squad and ultimately moved to his present staff Lucknow Tremendous Giants as captain in 2022.
He has scored 4 centuries within the IPL and was the Orange Cap winner in 2020 along with his tally of runs standing at 670.
