Lokesh Rahul

Lokesh Rahul

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Lokesh Rahul Profile

  • Name:
  • Lokesh Rahul
  • Born:
  • April 18, 1992

Lokesh Rahul Biography

K. L. Rahul, also known as Lokesh Rahul is a budding cricketer associated with Indian sports. In 2016 June 11, he became the first Indian ODI batsman to score a century in the debut match. He scored his maiden century in his maiden ODI against Zimbabwe played at the Harare Sports Club, India. He also put a record partnership of 162 runs with Rayudu, India's third best for the second wicket against Zimbabwe. He is associated with Karnataka domestic cricket and also plays as a wicketkeeper for his team. Rahul played for India at the 2010 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and also IPL Twenty-20 matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013 and 2016, and Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014.

 

Kannanur Lokesh Rahul was born on 18 April 1992 in Mangalore, Karnataka. He debut first class cricket playing for Karnataka in 2010-2011 season. He made his debut in Indian Premier League in 2013, and has been a team member of Royal Challengers Bangalore twice. His innings of 185 off 233 balls and 130 off 152 balls in the finals of 2014–15 Duleep Trophy earned him ‘Man of Match’. He played with South Zone for the season, which lost the finals by just 9 runs. But his outstanding performance in the finals earned him a berth to Indian cricket team.

 

He was included in the Indian Test squad for the Australian tour in December 2014. He made his test debut at Melbourne on 26 December 2014. But he could make only 3 & 1 runs in both innings. Yet Captain M. S. Dhoni retained him for the fourth test. He opened the innings with Murali Vijay and made 110 runs, his maiden century. He has been a team member to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka tours and has played four tests till now. With his century in the debut ODI match against Zimbabwe which gave victory to India, he has got a promising debut in ODI cricket arena.

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Updated: June 21, 2016

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