By: Tarish Bhatt
It’s been just over an year for KL Rahul, since breaking into the Indian senior squad. Earlier, it was all Tests for the Karnataka batsman, who recently made his limited-overs debut in Zimbabwe in June.
In a career spanning just 16 matches (eight Tests, three ODIs and five T20s), Rahul has five centuries to his name. Interestingly, all his hundreds have come away from home. He is yet to play a match on the home soil.
KL Rahul has scored centuries in Australia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, West Indies and most recently in the United States. He now has scored a ton in all three formats of the game, showing the kind of talent he is.
“There’s nothing physical you can do to improve consistency,” Rahul said. “It’s about the state of mind and how hungry you’re to perform. After the South African series, where I didn’t play a game, we had a long break until the IPL.”
“It was in those 4-5 months that I analyzed my one-year-old international career. I had done reasonably well, had scored a couple of hundreds, but I realized if I had to play all the three formats I had to be more consistent.”
“What I do now is to take each game seriously and enjoy the process,” the Karnataka batsman concluded.
