India’s star batsman KL Rahul can be seen playing for a new team in IPL 2026. A media report has revealed that 3 -time IPL champion Kolkata Knight Riders have shown interest in trading Rahul. KL Rahul played for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025, but now according to the Times of India, KKR wants to bring Rahul into his team. Team officials have also expressed their desire in this regard.

A source quoted by the Times of India said, “This trade may not be successful because KKR does not have any player that he can trade with Delhi Capitals instead of KL Rahul.” Abhishek Nair can be a reason for the Kolkata team to show interest in Rahul, who is the assistant coach of the KKR team. If Rahul comes in KKR, then he can also be offered captaincy.

As long as Abhishek Nair remained the assistant coach of the Indian team, many times he was exposed to good bonding with KL Rahul. Some credit for Rahul coming back to form in white ball cricket also goes to Abhishek Nair. Rahul himself has accepted this.

During the IPL, KL Rahul had said that, “I have done the white ball game much better in the last one year, the credit goes to Abhishek Nair. I have learned a lot from him after he came to the Indian team. We would discuss the same hours that I would discuss how my white ball game could be better.”

Talking about Kolkata Knight Riders, this team finished eighth in the IPL 2025 points table, while KKR became the champion under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer in the last season. Talking about KL Rahul, he scored 539 runs while playing for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025.

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KL Rahul and Shubman Gill have taken a historical record. In the second innings of the Manchester Test, there was a partnership of 188 runs between Gill and Rahul, but they have created the biggest record of the 21st century by parting the balls, not the runs. Both Indian batsmen played a total of 417 balls, partnership for 188 runs, which is the highest ball played in partnership by Indian batsmen in a Test match played in England in the last 25 years.

In India’s second innings in the Manchester Test, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudarshan were dismissed in the first over. Therefore, this historical partnership of Shubman Gill and KL Rahul started in the first over. The two together played 417 balls during this partnership. Earlier, this record was named after Rahul Dravid and Sanjay Bangar, who added 170 runs while playing 405 balls at the Headingley Cricket Ground in 2002. He is followed by Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, who partnered 249 runs in 357 balls.

Now on the land of England, the record of playing the most balls in a partnership has been added to Shubman Gill and KL Rahul. Rahul has scored 2 centuries in this series against England, unfortunately he could not complete the century in the Manchester Test. He was dismissed by Ben Stokes on a score of 90 runs.

Indian captain Shubman Gill is the captain to score the most runs in this series. On the one hand, Gill has crossed the 700 -run mark in the series, while KL Rahul has come second in terms of scoring the most runs. He has scored 511 runs in the current series. Indian batsman Rishabh Pant is also at number three in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs.

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Shubman gill batting position: Rishabh Pant, the vice-captain of the Indian Test team, has confirmed that Shubman Gill is going to bat on number-4 in the series against England. Gill was batting on the first third order, but the number-3 has become vacant due to his fourth place. On the other hand, after the retirement of Rohit Sharma, the opening slot has also become vacant. Earlier there were speculations that Gill could play the role of opening batting, but the question of opening is still complicated by batting at number four. After all, who can get the responsibility of opening? Here you will get the answer to this question.

The Indian Test team will have the first opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has been opening for Team India since the Test debut in 2023. As an opener, Jaiswal has so far scored 1,798 runs in 36 Test innings at an average of 52.88. The biggest question is who will be their partner?

RCB’s former player can open

With Shubman Gill’s number-4, it is almost decided that KL Rahul can start the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Although the number of number-3 batsman in the team is also empty, but Rahul may not do the batting on this order, because he has an equal experience of the batsman on number-3.

KL Rahul, who has played for RCB in IPL, has played as an opener in 83 Test innings. In these 83 innings, he has scored 2,803 runs at a fine average of around 35. As far as number-3 is concerned, there is speculation about giving a chance to Karun Nair or Sai Sudarshan for him. At the same time, Rishabh Pant, in Test matches, can handle one place below Shubman Gill.

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India Squad for England Tour 2025: The Test series of India and England is going to start from June 20. Team India has already been announced for the England Tour, in which captaincy has been handed over to Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant has been made the vice -captain of the Test team. Although the series will start from June 20, but now a senior player of Team India is going to leave for England before other members of the team. Here KL Rahul is talking about, who was going to leave for England on 6 June.

According to a report published in the Times of India, KL Rahul was scheduled to leave England on June 6 with the rest of the team. Rahul had demanded from BCCI that he should be given an opportunity to play in the second first-class match, India A vs England Lions starting on 6 June. His demand was accepted

KL Rahul wanted to prepare early for England Tour, but due to lack of weather in Mumbai and Bengaluru, he decided to go soon. Remind you that Rahul had done something similar on the Australian tour. He played the match for India A before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy started.

India A vs England Lions Scheduled

The first match of India A vs England Lions has started from 30 May. In this match, captain Abhimanyu Ishwaran and Yashasvi Jaiswal flopped, but Karun Nair and Sarfaraz Khan have impressed with strong batting. The second first-class match will start from 6 June, in which Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan and now KL Rahul can also be seen playing.

KL Rahul has a chance to create a record

KL Rahul has so far scored 955 runs in 13 matches against England in his Test career. As soon as he scored 45 runs in the upcoming series, he will become the 17th Indian batsman to complete 1,000 runs against England in the Test. Before them, 16 Indian batsmen including Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar and Saurao Ganguly have done this.

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Kl rahul suniel shetty new property: Indian cricketer KL Rahul, along with his father -in -law i.e. Sunil Shetty, has bought 7 acres of land. He has bought this piece of land in the Owel area of ​​western Thane. According to ‘Square Yards’, a property data of property in India, this property was purchased by Rahul and Shetty in March 2025, for which they paid an amount of Rs 9.85 crore. For this, he had to pay 30 thousand rupees for stamp duty and registration of Rs 68.96 lakh.

The Owel area in western Thane is located near Ghodbandar Road. This region is considered to be very important in terms of business for cities located in Mumbai, Thane and western areas. Remind you that Rahul and his wife Aathia Shetty had also bought a 3,350 square feet luxury apartment at Sandhu Palace of Pali Hill of Bandra last year, which was stated to be more than 20 crores. Rahul’s family found four parking slots in that apartment. On the purchase of this luxurious apartment, Rahul-Aathia had to pay a stamp duty of Rs 1.20 crore.

A little guest was born a few weeks ago at KL Rahul’s house. On March 24, 2025, Rahul had the privilege of becoming the father of a daughter, due to which he missed a few matches before IPL 2025.

KL Rahul is wreaking havoc in IPL 2025

KL Rahul has scored 200 runs in only 4 innings while playing for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025. Rahul is playing at a stormy strike rate of this season 164 and has also put 2 fifty in four innings played so far. In the current season, Rahul is still the highest run -scorer for Delhi Capitals.

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Kl rahul return update: KL Rahul, did not play the first match for Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025, in which Delhi got a thrilling victory against Lucknow Super Giants. He became a father for the first time a few days ago, last Monday his wife Aathiya Shetty gave birth to a daughter. For this, Delhi Capitals Management gave Rahul a special permission to miss the first match. Now a new update has come to light that Rahul is going to join the Delhi Capital Squad before the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

According to a report published in the Times of India, KL Rahul can be seen playing for Delhi Capitals in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on March 30. Before joining the training camp of Delhi Capitals in Visakhapatnam, he trained with Assistant Coach Abhishek Nair of the Indian cricket team in Mumbai. Remind you that Delhi Capitals bought Rahul for Rs 14 crore in mega auction.

Delhi-Hyderabad match will be held on March 30

After defeating Lucknow Super Giants by 1 wicket in its opening match of IPL 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad will be challenged in front of Delhi, this match will be played on 30 March. Like the previous season, SRH seems to be a very dangerous team, which scored a score of 286 runs in his very first match. On the other hand, the top order of Delhi Capitals was exposed in the match against LSG.

A total of 24 matches have been played in IPL history between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad so far. Of these, 13 times the Hyderabad team has won, while the Delhi Capitals team has won on 11 occasions. At the same time, no match has been played between them at Visakhapatnam Stadium so far.

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