KL Rahul may be the captain of Lucknow Tremendous Giants, a franchise which has been fairly constant since its inception in 2022, however part of his coronary heart nonetheless lies for his first Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).
Rahul began his journey within the IPL at RCB after signing for the favored franchise forward of the 2013 season. The wicketkeeper-batter revealed that Virat Kohli was the one who requested him to hitch the Royal Challengers after he had a wonderful outing within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In truth, Rahul stated that Kohli did not give him a selection and requested him to place pen to paper. The Karnataka batter talked about that taking part in for RCB was all the time his dream.
“Virat was there (ITC Gardenia), coach Ray Jennings and different help employees had been additionally there and Virat solely stated, ‘Would you need to signal this contract and play for RCB?’ I used to be like, ‘Are you kidding? It was all the time my dream.’ After which he stated, ‘I am simply kidding. It is not an possibility, simply signal this contract.’ I signed and Virat stated ‘It is gonna be a loopy trip. You are going to get pleasure from so much within the subsequent couple of months’,” Rahul stated in a video shared by Ravichandran Ashwin on his YouTube channel.
“The issues that I realized (at RCB) in these two months, I imply the period of time it will have taken me to be the participant by taking part in simply Ranji Trophy would have in all probability taken it 7-8 seasons. These two months within the IPL, I gained a lot data and expertise and every thing was fast-forwarded,” Rahul added.
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I’d have appreciated to complete at RCB: KL Rahul
KL Rahul principally performed within the center order for RCB throughout his tenure with the franchise. Nonetheless, he could not safe a everlasting spot within the XI and was finally launched after the 2016 season. The 32-year-old stated that he would have cherished to have spent his complete IPL profession on the Bengaluru-based franchise. After being launched by RCB, Rahul had stints with Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings earlier than settling at Lucknow.
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“I’d have additionally cherished to play for Bangalore. I had began there, I’d have appreciated to complete there and that was there in my head. However the fantastic thing about IPL is that you just get to enter completely different groups with completely different gamers,” Rahul concluded.
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