Kl rahul in ipl: KL Rahul has not waited for a long time to make a splash after his delay in IPL 2025. He was on paternity leave in the first two matches of Delhi Capitals. After the return, he scored 15 runs from five balls in his first match and scored 77 runs to win the match off 51 balls against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Saturday. This is his new approach because “the team that hits more fours and sixes wins the match.”

Since IPL 2019, Rahul has not scored above 138.8 in terms of strike rate for a season. This includes a decline of 129.34 (2020) and 113.22 (2023), while he has scored 520 to 670 runs in every season except 2023, when he played just nine matches. He has got freedom from being freed from captaincy (in Lucknow Super Giants) and being just one player with Delhi Capitals.

After the victory, Rahul said in a conversation with his team’s mentor Kevin Pietersen on IPLT20.com, “I have really worked hard on my white ball game in the last one year. Thank you Abhishek Nair very much. Since I have come to the Indian team, I have done a lot of work with him. We have worked with my white ball games and I have worked with hours in Mumbai. Neither did I enjoy playing white ball cricket. “

Recently, it was also seen in the Champions Trophy, which India won. Rahul was selected as wicketkeeper and finisher and played an unbeaten innings three times in four, in which he scored 140 runs at a strike rate of 97.90. 140 runs included five fours and five sixes.

He has already hit eight fours and four sixes in this IPL and if this trend does not change, he will overtake the 45 fours and 19 sixes in his last season, which ended with a much -known, very public discussion with LSG owner Sanjeev Goenka.

Goenka said after the season that he wants to maintain those players who have “the mentality of winning”. Rahul was not retained. He later said that he wants to get “love, care and respect” from his team, and he wants to “start a new”.

Once Rahul, who was a victim of criticism to say “the strike rate is given great importance”, he told Peterson, “I think I have lost the fun of hitting the boundary and sixes somewhere. I wanted to take the game far ahead and this thing somehow has sat in my mind. But now I have realized that I have to go back. I have to go back. Cricket has changed. The team hit more boundary and sixes, she wins the match. ”

“So now I am enjoying my cricket. I am not thinking much about the match, not taking it forward or thinking about anything like this. Just look at the ball and try to be aggressive and pressurize the bowler and opposition team and just enjoy the boundary.”

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