The Lucknow Super Giants team, playing under the captaincy of KL Rahul in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), did not perform as expected on the field this time compared to the last two seasons. Even though the Lucknow team is yet to play its last league match this season, but before that it is out of the race for the playoffs. In such a situation, captain KL Rahul is also facing criticism, in which his poor strike rate during batting is being targeted the most, in which now in this season of LSG team, assistant coach Lance Klusener has defended him in which his According to him, Rahul has performed better with the bat.
If you look at his runs he is not bad
Lucknow Super Giants team has to play its last league match in the 17th season of IPL against Mumbai Indians on 17th May. LSG team’s assistant coach Lance Klusener, who came to the press conference before this match, in response to a question on the criticism regarding KL Rahul’s poor strike rate, said that Rahul was also responsible for captaincy along with being a batsman. It is very easy to think that he did not perform so well in the tournament, but if you look at Rahul’s runs, he looks much better than the rest and you should also look at the situations in which he scored these runs. Played responsibly also. Many times, due to early wickets falling, he had to manage the innings due to which he was seen batting completely contrary to his natural game.
Rahul has scored 465 runs so far this season.
If we look at KL Rahul’s performance with the bat in the IPL this season, he has scored 465 runs in 13 innings at an average of 35.77, in which his strike rate has definitely been 136.36. Till now, he is at number 7 in the list of players who have scored the most runs this season. At the same time, three half-century innings have also been seen from his bat. Rahul will now try to end this season with 500 plus runs by playing a big innings in the match against Mumbai.
(PTI INPUTS)
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