File photograph of KL Rahul.© BCCI/IPL
Former India cricketer Akash Chopra has lauded Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul forward of the sixteenth version of the Indian Premier League. While predicting that Rahul would be the staff’s highest run scorer in IPL 2023, Chopra added that it might be a difficulty if the right-handed batter fails to contribute with the bat. He was the best run scorer of LSG within the aspect’s maiden IPL season in 2023, whereas total, Rahul was the second on the record being solely behind Rajasthan Royals and England star Jos Buttler.
“With your eyes closed, you can say that LSG’s highest run-scorer will be KL Rahul. He is brilliant and is also the team’s heartbeat. But right now he is under some pressure, not that he has to prove anything to anyone. But if he doesn’t score runs, then it will be an issue,” stated Chopra on JioCinema.
Since IPL 2018, KL Rahul has discovered himself among the many prime run scorers within the match. He scored 659, 593, 670, 626 and 616 in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 edtions of IPL.
While runs have been coming from the bat of Rahul on a constant foundation previously few years of the match, his strike charge is one thing that has been underneath the radar of critics.
In the 2018 version, Rahul’s strike charge was 158.41 nevertheless it dipped to 135.38 the very subsequent 12 months. His common strike charge from the 2019 IPL is 134.72.
Under Rahul’s captaincy, LSG had completed on the third spot within the desk by the top of the league stage. They had been later knocked out of the match after dropping the Eliminator match in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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