India batter KL Rahul said that he has an eye on the upcoming T20 World Cup set to take place in India and Sri Lanka next year after missing out on lifting the trophy with the national team at Barbados in 2024. Rahul has had a decent IPL season, having scored 539 but couldn’t help Delhi Capitals qualify for the playoffs.
If you have seen how my career has gone, I don’t think I really had a choice or I have never been a player to speak with the selectors and sit with the captain and tell the captain that this is what I want to do. I just want to be in the team and whatever challenge is thrown at me, I have found that’s better for me to adapt to rather than me trying to sit and think about what I need to do. When the role is given to me and the coaches and the captain and the selectors tell me that look this is what we are expecting for you, may be No.5, maybe No. 6, open the batting. Yeah, that sort of gives me a clarity and then I work around my game,” Rahul said in a Sky Sports interview with former England skipper Nasser Hussain.
“Yes, I want to get back in the T20 team and the World Cup is in my mind, but for now it’s just trying to enjoy how I’m playing right now,” he added.
Speaking in the same interview, Rahul opened up on the challenge of having to prove himself over and over again. The Karnataka batter also said he found it challenging that the people in charge of making decisions tend to forget his contributions across the board.
“I don’t mind proving myself all the time. That’s how any sport is – to always perform in every tournament. That’s the case with international cricketers anywhere in the world. But that’s not the hard part – it’s the people who make the decisions who seem to forget what the player has done in the recent tournament. It has been the challenge for me,” he said.
“I don’t mind proving myself all the time. That’s how any sport is – to always perform in every tournament. That’s the case with international cricketers anywhere in the world. But that’s not the hard part – it’s the people who make the decisions who seem to forget what the player has done in the recent tournament. It has been the challenge for me,” he said.
