In a lighthearted second, Delhi Capitals (DC) batter KL Rahul reminded his workforce’s mentor, Kevin Pietersen, of his previous social media submit on him. Rahul, who was purchased by DC for Rs 14 crore, hit a match-winning half-century, serving to his aspect beat the Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) on Saturday. Rahul hit 77 off 51 balls, slamming six 4 and three sixes, as DC maintained its 100 per cent file in IPL 2025. After the match, Rahul had a freewheeling chat with Pietersen, which was organised by the IPL.
Throughout the interview, Rahul reminded Pietersen than he as soon as in contrast his batting to be as gradual as watching “paint dry on a wall.”
“It is higher than watching the paint of the wall dry. Precisely. That was your tweet about me in the future,” KL Rahul informed Pietersen.
Whereas Pietersen discovered it exhausting to recall sharing one thing like that, he was glad to see Rahul change his batting method.
“Did I say that? Properly, I’m glad you have modified your recreation,” Pietersen replied.
Rahul additionally talked about his new method to enjoying white-ball cricket from the realisation that he has to adapt to the fashionable means of being related within the recreation.
“I feel someplace alongside the way in which I misplaced that enjoyable of hitting boundaries and hitting sixes. I needed to take the sport deep, deep, deep and that in some way caught in my head. However now I’ve realised I want to return. Cricket’s modified, and T20 cricket, particularly, is just about hitting boundaries.
“The workforce that hits extra boundaries and sixes finally ends up successful the sport. So again to having fun with my cricket. I’m not pondering an excessive amount of in regards to the recreation, not fascinated by taking it deep or none of that stuff. Simply see (the) ball and attempt to be aggressive and put the strain on the bowler and the opposition and simply take pleasure in hitting boundaries,” he concluded.
Rahul had missed DC’s first recreation as a consequence of paternity go away and on return in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad, he hit an aggressive five-ball 15 earlier than unleashing a knock in the identical vein and on a bigger scale in opposition to CSK.
“Realizing that the opposition struggled as a lot as I did within the center and so they could not recover from the road and get the victory, so it feels good now. However within the center, I felt I left 15-20 runs on the again finish. On the midway stage after we had the chat and I bear in mind telling you that I’ll look to hit my pockets.
“I used to be nonetheless in, and I feel I had good intent. I used to be nonetheless seeking to rating boundaries however simply wasn’t timing the ball too nicely. A little bit little bit of a break actually helped me. The minute I went again on, I received one within the center, hit the ball within the hole and I received going after that,” added Rahul.
(With IANS Inputs)
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