India’s star participant KL Rahul, who is commonly criticised for his performances and scoring charges, opened up on receiving on-line trolling and hate on social media. The wicketkeeper-batter stated that whereas he was initially good at going through them, he was subjected to a whole lot of on-line abuse afterward even whereas not enjoying, which affected him. “I was good with (dealing with) trolling. I didn’t care, however I really feel I used to be a lot youthful again then. After which, a few years again, I used to be uncovered to a whole lot of trolling. If I sat, I acquired trolled, if I stood, I acquired trolled,” Rahul stated on entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath’s YouTube Channel.
Rahul’s final worldwide look was throughout the ODI collection towards Sri Lanka, the place he scored 31 runs in two innings. Regardless of a superb ICC Cricket World Cup final 12 months, wherein he scored 452 runs in 10 innings at a mean of 75.33, with a century and two fifties, KL was panned for his knock of 66 in 107 balls throughout the last towards Australia, which India misplaced by six wickets after failing to defend 241 runs towards Australia.
On this 12 months’s Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024, Rahul additionally attracted some criticism for his strike fee regardless of ending amongst high 10 run-getters, with 520 runs in 14 matches at a mean of 37.14, with 4 fifties. His strike fee of 136.12, decrease compared to veterans like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and youthful stars like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and so on., was a topic of trolling.
Again in 2019, each Hardik and KL had been handed suspensions from the nationwide crew and fined Rs 20 lakh for Hardik’s misogynist feedback in “Koffee With Karan”, earlier than they may return to the crew.
Whereas KL and Hardik featured within the ICC Cricket World Cup that 12 months and suspension didn’t final very lengthy, it nonetheless had a nasty impact on KL, who admitted of “by no means being suspended at school”.
(With ANI Inputs)
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