KL Rahul on Thursday performed a memorable knock for Delhi Capitals towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The previous RCB participant slammed 93* off 53 balls and helped DC get well from to 30/3 in 4.3 overs to chase down a 164-run goal in 17.5 overs in Bengaluru. After the win, Karnataka-born Rahul celebrated aggressively indicating ‘that is my floor’. A video from the match goes viral the place the 2 groups will be seen doing the customary handshakes. Within the video, KL Rahul will be seen shakings palms with Suyash Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Virat Kohli, Phil Salt. Simply when Rahul was shaking palms with Salt, RCB captain Rajat Patidar was additionally current however he walked straight forward. After that Rahul went on to shake palms with Krunal Pandya and Tum David.
Some social media customers noticed the act as clear snub by Patidar.
Patidar Ignored KL Rahul
This man Rajat Patidar ought to study some manners pic.twitter.com/lSpKuUhNRe
— KL’sGIRL (@Silverglohss_1) April 11, 2025
Rajat patidar ignored KL rahul?
pic.twitter.com/FQoeeYcYzN
— Viraj Rk17 (@VirajRk17) April 11, 2025
From being panned as a stat-padder, who lacked intent from the phrase go to being a toast of tough chases, KL Rahul has turned the wheels in a fashion solely a batter blessed with skill-set as his can.
He printed the most recent blueprint of his progress chart with an unbeaten 93 off 53 balls at a strike-rate of 175 on a gripping Chinnaswamy pitch to vogue Delhi Capitals’s six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Tim David (185) and Phil Salt (210) made runs at the next strike-rate however via brute pressure and the readiness to journey on riskier routes both at Energy Play or on the loss of life overs.
However Rahul’s fifty was easily paced — from a cautious 29 off 29 balls, the right-hander made the remaining 64 runs off simply 24 balls on Thursday.
It is easy to time period the innings as a product of his first-hand data of the native circumstances as a Karnataka boy. It may need performed an element however that is only one chapter of the story.
The Capitals try to weave their batting round Rahul, and it’s partly due to his technical adaptability.
On Thursday evening, Rahul confirmed DC’s religion on him just isn’t misplaced whereas nullifying a reliable set of bowlers.
Even in the course of the sedate preliminary interval, there was no trace of battle because it was very evident that he had judged the character of the observe to the T and was ready for the suitable second to unleash himself.
It got here within the fifteenth over bowled by Josh Hazlewood. Rahul punished the pacer for 22 runs in that over, together with three fours and a six.
It decisively swung the momentum in Delhi’s favour, however none of these pictures have been hit in anger.
Even the six that sailed over Hazlewood’s head was the result of a superbly poised open-faced bat, a traditional methodology to cut back the potential for edges or false pictures on such pitches.
Simply to check, his top-order colleagues Jake-Fraser McGurk, Faf du Plessis and Abhishek Porel went for cross-batted swipes to get caught because the innate slowness of the floor didn’t permit them to time the pictures nicely.
RCB’s mentor Dinesh Karthik appreciated the best way Rahul performed his knock, significantly as a result of the 32-year-old continues to be a floater via the batting line-up in whichever crew he performs.
“It is a very difficult to bat at completely different positions in T20. However he is completed that actually properly within the current previous. I’ve believed he is a high-quality middle-order batter. He is tweaked a bit,” mentioned Karthik.
With PTI inputs
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