KL Rahul: Team India is currently playing a 2-match Test series against Bangladesh. The host country won the first match of the series by a huge margin of 280 runs. But despite this, the performance of the dashing batsman KL Rahul remained criticized. He scored 16 runs in the first innings, while he remained unbeaten on 22* in the second innings. But meanwhile, another innings of Rahul has come into the limelight, when he had weakened the opposition team with 47 fours and 4 sixes.

KL Rahul created a stir

Actually, this is not a matter of today or yesterday, but almost 9 years ago in 2015. The Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and UP was being played in Bengaluru, which is also KL Rahul's home ground. Taking advantage of this, the young batsman made a lot of noise.

Rahul played a huge innings of 337 runs on 448 balls with the help of 47 fours and 4 sixes. During this, he troubled the dreaded bowlers of UP like Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra and Kuldeep Yadav.

did not benefit

Karnataka could not take advantage of this huge innings of KL and the match was drawn. UP won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be their big mistake. Due to KL Rahul's triple century, Abrar Kazi's century and Shreyas Gopal's innings of 90 runs, Karnataka declared their first innings at a score of 719/9. In response, UP's first innings collapsed for 220 runs. It was expected that Karnataka would give follow on, but this did not happen.

Karnataka batted the entire second innings and scored 215 runs. Thus, UP got a target of 715 runs in the final innings, but they could score only 42/2 in 14 overs and the match ended in a draw.

KL Rahul has an amazing record

It is worth noting that KL Rahul's first class record is quite impressive. He has scored 6892 runs in 162 innings of 95 red ball matches played for Karnataka at an average of 44.17. During this period, 18 centuries and 33 half-centuries have also come from his bat.

Talking about Rahul's international career, he has scored 2901 runs in 88 innings of 51 Test matches played for India at an average of 34.12, which includes 8 centuries and 14 half-centuries.