KL Rahul is a well-known face of the Indian cricketing circuit. Ever since he has made his debut in 2014, he showed his class and scored his maiden Test century in his second Test match only
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KL Rahul is a well-known face of the Indian cricketing circuit. Ever since he has made his debut in 2014, he showed his class and scored his maiden Test century in his second Test match only. Moreover, he was the first Indian to score a century on One Day International debut, and the third Indian to score a century across formats of international cricket as well.
KL Rahul was born on 18 April 1992 to KN Lokesh and Rajeshwari in Bangalore and he grew up in Mangalore, completing his high school at NITK English Medium School and pre-university at St. Aloysius College as well. He started cricket training at the tender age of 10, and, two years later, he started playing matches for both Bangalore United Cricket Club and his club in Mangalore as well. And, at age 18 he moved to Bangalore to study at Jain University and pursue his cricket career as well.
Rahul made his first-class cricket debut for Karnataka in 2010–11 and in the same season, he has played for his country at the 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, where he scored a total of 143 runs in the competition. Later, in 2013, he made his debut in the Indian Premier League for Royal Challengers Bangalore. During the 2013–14 domestic season he had scored 1,033 first-class runs, the second-highest scorer that season as well.
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Rahul made his Test debut in the 2014 Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as well. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club and scored an unbeaten 100*(115) on debut as well. Thus, he became the first Indian cricketer to score a century on the ODI debut. He made his T20I debut as well later in the same tour.
However, on 19th December 2019, KL Rahul was officially named as captain of the Kings XI Punjab for the 2020 IPL and against Royal Challengers Bangalore on 24 September 2020, he scored an unbeaten 132* off just 69 balls as well. And, he has been doing wonders with the bat across formats.
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Athiya Shetty, who is an Indian actress is the rumoured girlfriend of KL Rahul. She is the daughter of the veteran actor Suniel Shetty. She made her debut in the romantic action film Hero for which she has also received a Filmfare award nomination for the Best Female Debut as well.
Apart from Hero, she has been a part of the movies – Mubarakan, Nawabzaade, Motichoor Chaknachoor.
