- Team India’s star wicketkeeper-batsman, KL Rahul, has decided to retire after the Champions Trophy 2025. He may say goodbye to this format forever.
KL Rahul: The Indian team’s experienced wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul can say goodbye to this format forever after the Champions Trophy 2025. KL Rahul has become the first choice as Team India’s wicketkeeper, but even after this, he is not getting many opportunities in one format, due to which he may be forced to take such a big step. Let us tell you when KL Rahul can announce his retirement from this format.
Say goodbye to this format!
KL Rahul has completely established his place as a wicketkeeper-batsman in the ODI format, but his place in T20I cricket is still eluding him. KL played his last T20I match for India against England on 10 November 2022, after which he was permanently dropped from this format.
Because he has not been given a chance in the shortest format of cricket, he can announce his retirement and focus his full attention on the Test and ODI formats. At the same time, Team India’s chief selector, Ajit Agarkar, and head coach, Gautam Gambhir, are also not giving KL a place in the T20I team at the moment, so he has been almost completely dropped from this team.
Because of this, I am not getting the chance
Questions have been raised about KL Rahul’s strike rate in the T20I format since the beginning. In this game of just 120 balls, his strike rate is very low compared to other batsmen, so he has been shown the way out. KL Rahul has played 72 matches in this format for India, in which he has scored runs at a strike rate of 139, but after the year 2022, his strike rate has declined. In the T20I World Cup played in 2022, KL Rahul scored only 128 runs in 6 matches for India with an ordinary strike rate of 120.75.
While KL Rahul scored 274 runs in 9 innings for Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League 2023, his strike rate here was just 113.22. This is why he is not getting many opportunities in the T20I format, and batsmen who score more runs at a faster pace are being given priority.
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