Apart from his batting, the 28-year-old Indian versatile cricketer KL Rahul has now impressed with his wicketkeeping skills in the international cricket. Rahul recently revealed the name of the toughest bowler to keep behind the wicket.
KL Rahul made his international debut in 2010. In his international career, Rahul has faced some ups and downs, and his discipline attitude has helped him to improve his game. In the last few years, Rahul has improved his batting impressively, and his batting is now playing an effective role for the Indian team for almost the last 12 months.
Rahul is also improving as a wicket-keeper, who generally plays this special role in limited-overs matches. Apart from playing the wicket-keeper role in domestic matches, he has continued it in the IPL career too. However, until 2019, he never played this special role in the international career.
But the in-form batsman Rahul first time got the wicket-keeping opportunity for the Indian team during the Mumbai ODI against Australia on 14th January 2020, when the designated wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant received an injury during the match. Since then, the Indian captain and team management support the wicket-keeper batsman Rahul in most of the limited-overs matches as he has shown incredible improvement in the wicket-keeping skills. He has already played ten international matches as a designated wicket-keeper (five ODIs and five T20Is).
The toughest bowler to keep to is Jasprit Bumrah: KL Rahul
In this lockdown period, Rahul recently involved in a Q&A session with the fans on Twitter, where he confidently claimed that he is enjoying the wicket-keeping. Then he revealed that the 26-year-old Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah is the toughest bowler to keep.
Rahul wrote, “Absolutely enjoying wicket-keeping. The toughest bowler to keep to is @Jaspritbumrah93.”
At present, Bumrah is the 2nd-ranked ODI bowler, 7th-ranked Test bowler and 13th-ranked T20I bowler. Though Bumrah and Rahul played together in 62 international matches (26 ODIs, 26 T20Is and 10 Tests), Rahul kept the wicket only in 10 international matches (five ODIs and five T20Is).
KL Rahul has already played 36 Tests, 32 ODIs and 42 T20Is.