India squad t20 kl rahul: After the conclusion of IPL 2025, the Indian team has to visit England. After that, in August, Team India has to go on a Bangladesh tour for the white ball series. 3 ODI and three T20 matches are to be played between the two teams. Now a media report has claimed that Rahul can be given a place in the T20 squad against Bangladesh due to a strong performance in IPL 2025. Let us tell you that for the last 2 years, Rahul has been seen playing only ODI and Test matches.

KL Rahul’s return

According to the Times of India, KL Rahul can find a place in the T20 squad against Bangladesh. Rahul, who has not played any T20 match for India after November 2022. Usually Rahul has been trolled for his strike rate, but with the performance of IPL 2025, he has shut down his critics.

In IPL 2025, KL Rahul has so far scored 493 runs in 11 matches at an excellent average of 61.63. This season, a century and 3 fifty have also come out of his bat. The most important thing to note is that Rahul has batting at a good strike rate of 148 in IPL 2025. It was told in this report that due to this good batting, the selectors have become impressed with them.

Will return after 1021 days

KL Rahul was last seen playing a T20 match for India in the 2022 T20 World Cup. At that time, in the semi -finals of the World Cup, he was dismissed for just 5 runs against England. If Rahul returns to the series against Bangladesh, then he will be playing a T20 match for India after 1,021 days. If you look at Rahul’s entire T20 career, he has scored 2,265 runs in 72 matches so far. Rahul has also scored 2 centuries and 22 half -centuries in this format.

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KL Rahul has become the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The wicketkeeper batsman achieved this feat during the eight -wicket win of Delhi Capitals on Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Tuesday. Rahul achieved this feat in 130 innings and overtook David Warner (135), Virat Kohli (157), AB de Villiers (161) and Shikhar Dhawan (168) in this list.

Rahul, who has captained for IPL 2024 (Lucknow Super Giants), is playing as a wicketkeeper batsman for Delhi Capitals this year. Last year, he was released by the franchise after a sharp noise from Rahul’s Lucknow Super Giants owner. Rahul scored an unbeaten 57 off 42 balls in front of Lucknow Super Giants.

He batted carefully against the spin invasion of Aidan Markram, Digvesh Rathi and Ravi Bishnoi. However, he continued to play his shots in between.

Rahul scored a half -century in 40 balls with the help of three fours and 3 sixes and did not give the Lucknow bowlers a chance to return with Akshar Patel. He won the match by hitting a six off the ball of Prince Yadav.

Rahul is in tremendous form this season, he became the fastest Indian to recently hit 200 IPL sixes and he is the third fastest player after West Indies big hitters Chris Gayle and Andre Russell.

Rahul is in great form for Delhi this season and he has done well on this occasion. His strike rate has been 155.67 in this season, which is the second highest strike rate of his 12 seasons in the league.

The 33 -year -old has scored 359 runs in eight innings and has played an important role in the team’s victory. His best performance was against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, when he scored an unbeaten 93 and won the team by six wickets. Rahul could not play his first match for Delhi Capitals due to personal reasons.

Gt vs dc IPL 2025: The first match of double header is being played between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals at Narendra Modi Stadium today (19 April). Delhi is currently at number one in the points table and Gujarat is third. Preparing before the match, Shubman Gill went among Delhi Capitals players and also met Mentor Kevin Pietersen of Delhi. During this time, KL Rahul, who is practicing batting, trolled his own team mentor Peterson badly.

This video has been shared by Delhi Capitals themselves on their social media handle. In the video, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill comes on the field during the practice session of Delhi and hugs Kevin Pietersen. Gill asks them that you are having fun? On this, Peterson says, ‘What is the mentor, no one knows what the mentor is?’ Rahul standing there says something that Peterson’s mouth hangs.

What did KL Rahul say to Peterson?

KL Rahul says, “Mentor is the one who goes to Maldives for 2 weeks in the middle of the tournament.” All the players present there start laughing and Kevin Pietersen’s mouth hangs. “

Thanks kl, now we know what a mentor does ork pic.twitter.com/jxwsvjbfqs

– delhi capitals (@delhicapital) April 19, 2025

Earlier too, a video between KL Rahul and Peterson became very viral, in which Rahul reminded Peterson about an old tweet of him. Actually, after playing 77 runs against CSK in the IPL, Peterson was praising Rahul, after which Rahul reminded him what you had tweeted before me.

Once Peterson criticized Rahul’s batting and wrote, “It’s better than watching the painting of the wall dry.” He compared Rahul’s slow batting with a paint drying up. After this, Peterson said, “Did I really say that, let’s have good you have changed your game style.”

KL Rahul’s record in IPL 2025

Before Saturday, 19 April, KL Rahul has played a total of 5 matches in the IPL. He could not play the first match. Debuting for Delhi, Rahul scored 15 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. After this, in the second match, he played a brilliant half -century (77) innings against Chennai. In the third match, he was 7 runs away from the century, he scored 93 runs against RCB. He then scored 15 against Mumbai and 38 runs against Rajasthan Royals. KL Rahul has scored a total of 238 runs in 5 matches, it has 2 half -century innings.