Kannur Lokesh Rahul is a cricketer who represents India at the international level. He was born on April 18th, 1992. Rahul is a right-handed wicket-keeper and batsman who now leads the Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League. He also holds the position of captain for Karnataka, which is a local team. During the Boxing Day Test match that took place in Melbourne in 2014, he made his debut for the international national team against Australia.
In 2016, Rahul made his debut in the One-Day International format against Zimbabwe, two years after he made his debut in the Test format. During the same trip, he played his first Twenty20 International. During his maiden one-day international match, Rahul became the first and only Indian cricketer to achieve a century. It took him just twenty innings to accomplish this milestone, making him the quickest batter in the world to make a century in an international match across all three forms.
He attended NITK English Medium School for his high school education and St. Aloysius College for his pre-university education. Rahul spent his whole life in Mangalore with his family. He began his training in cricket when he was ten years old, and two years later, he began playing matches for both the Bangalore United Cricket Club and his club in Mangalore. When he was 18 years old, he relocated to Bangalore to continue his cricket career while still attending Jain University.
Following a relationship that lasted for more than three years, Rahul tied the knot with his long-term lover, the Indian actress Athiya Shetty, who was the daughter of the actor Suniel Shetty, on January 23, 2023. When Karnataka was playing in the 2010–11 season, Rahul made his debut in the first-class cricket competition. During the same year, he was a member of the national team that competed in the 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He finished the tournament with 143 running scores.
KL Rahul Biography
Royal Challengers Bangalore was the team that he played for when he made his debut in the Indian Premier League in 2013. He accomplished this by scoring 1,033 first-class runs during the domestic season of 2013–2014, making him the second-greatest scorer during that season. When South Zone faced Central Zone in the championship match of the 2014–15 Duleep Trophy, Rahul scored 185 runs off 233 balls in the first innings and 130 runs off 152 balls in the second innings.
His selection to the Indian Test team for the subsequent tour of Australia followed his selection as the player of the match. Following the conclusion of the test series, Rahul made history by being the first player in Karnataka to score a triple-century by amassing 337 runs against Uttar Pradesh. Later on, he went on to hit 188 runs in the Ranji Trophy final against Tamil Nadu in 2014–2015. He concluded the season with an average of 93.11 runs per game in the nine matches that he participated in.
During the Boxing Day Test that took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2014, Rahul made his debut in the Test format. He took over for Rohit Sharma, and Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the one to give him his Test cap. In his first game, he was only able to score three goals and one assist. During the following test match, which took place in Sydney, he began the innings for the very first time. He also scored 110 runs, which was his first century on the international stage.
Dengue infection caused him to withdraw from the Indian tour of Bangladesh in June 2015, even though he had been appointed to the 15-man team for the trip. After Murali Vijay was unable to play due to an injury, he was able to return to the team for the first test of the Sri Lankan tour. He went on to score his second century in a test match and became the Man of the Match. Following Wriddhiman Saha’s injury during the match, he took up the role of wicketkeeper.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 121 | 20 | 4256 | 132* | 46.26 | 3164 | 134.51 | 4 | 34 | 360 | 173 | 64 | 5 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 93 | 58 | 31.00 | 67 | 138.81 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 9 | 1 | 274 | 74 | 34.25 | 242 | 113.22 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 15 | 3 | 616 | 103* | 51.33 | 455 | 135.38 | 2 | 4 | 45 | 30 | 9 | 0 |
| 2021 | 13 | 3 | 626 | 98* | 62.60 | 451 | 138.80 | 0 | 6 | 48 | 30 | 11 | 0 |
| 2020 | 14 | 2 | 670 | 132* | 55.83 | 518 | 129.34 | 1 | 5 | 58 | 23 | 10 | 0 |
| 2019 | 14 | 3 | 593 | 100* | 53.90 | 438 | 135.38 | 1 | 6 | 49 | 25 | 7 | 0 |
| 2018 | 14 | 2 | 659 | 95* | 54.91 | 416 | 158.41 | 0 | 6 | 66 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
| 2016 | 14 | 3 | 397 | 68* | 44.11 | 271 | 146.49 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 16 | 5 | 4 |
| 2015 | 9 | 3 | 142 | 44* | 28.40 | 126 | 112.69 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 11 | 0 | 166 | 46 | 20.75 | 164 | 101.21 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 10.00 | 16 | 125.00 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
Rahul was selected to be a part of the India team that will go to the West Indies in July of 2016. It was during the second series test that Rahul achieved his best score in test cricket at the time, which was 158 runs. In September of 2016, he was selected to be a part of the team that will compete in the local series against New Zealand. As a result of an injury, Gautam Gambhir took over for him after the first Test match.
On the occasion of the 2016–17 Test series against England, Rahul was chosen to be a part of the team; however, he sustained an injury while practicing in the nets. Even though he was unable to participate in the third test, he was able to rejoin the squad for the fourth test, but he was unable to make a significant contribution. Rahul went on to get his fourth test ton, hitting 199 runs, which was a career-high. This occurred in the fifth and final test of the series.
The trip to Zimbabwe in 2016 included Rahul as a member of the team. The Harare Sports Club was the venue for his first One-Day International (ODI) match, which he played against Zimbabwe. As a result of Rahul’s debut, he became the first Indian cricketer to achieve a century in his maiden one-day international (ODI) match. He struck an undefeated 100* (115). He received the title of “man of the series.”
In the latter stages of the same tour, he made his debut in the Twenty20 International (T20I) format. As India’s maiden Twenty20 International (T20I) match against Zimbabwe was a loss, Rahul took a golden duck on his debut in the format. During the visit to the West Indies in 2016, Rahul was selected for the Twenty20 International team. During this trip, he scored his maiden century in Twenty20 International off of just 46 balls and ended up hitting an unbeaten 110 off of just 51 balls.
During the pursuit of the greatest Twenty20 International run chase at the time, which was 246 runs, he became the first player to achieve a century in a Twenty20 International while batting at number four. One run was all that separated India from victory in the match. By beating Ahmed Shehzad’s record of 76 innings, Rahul became the quickest batter to have scored hundreds in all three forms. This accomplishment occurred during Rahul’s 20th innings of international cricket.
