Indian team’s opener KL Rahul has faced a lot of trolling in the past due to his poor form, but in the first T20 match against Australia, he scored a brilliant half-century in batting. KL Rahul also hit Australia’s toughest bowler Josh Hazlewood for a charismatic six, seeing that even the bowlers on the field had their eyes wide open.
KL Rahul showed his amazing shot off Hazlewood in the third over of the Indian innings. Hazlewood came to bowl the second over of his quota. The batsman targeted the very first ball of this over. To play his shot, KL Rahul first took a step towards the off-stump and then after reading the line, length of the ball, simply sending the bat to the ball and flying outside the boundary. The video of this incident is becoming increasingly viral on social media.
Let us inform that in this match, KL Rahul played an innings of 55 runs in 35 balls. His bat also saw 4 fours and 3 superb sixes for the team. During this his strike rate was 157.14. KL Rahul has done the job of locking the critics’ mouths on the strength of his innings. Significantly, in the past, KL Rahul was trolled a lot for his slow innings.