A tall, elegant right-hand batter who has often stepped up to also keep wicket, KL Rahul is among India’s highly rated openers.
Rahul was in India’s 2010 Under-19 World Cup squad and made his first-class debut later that year. He enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2013-14, scoring over 1000 runs in Karnataka’s Ranji Trophy win, including a Player-of-the-Match performance in the final. Twin centuries in the 2014-15 Duleep Trophy final earned him a place in India’s Test squad on their tour of Australia, where he scored a hundred in only his second Test, in Sydney, and followed it with two more hundreds in his next four Tests – in Colombo and Kingston. Then, against England in Chennai in 2016, he scored 199, showcasing decisive footwork and confident reverse-sweeping.