'Rahul Bhai told me 5 minutes before the toss that I am playing, I thought I would be giving water in the match'

 

KL Rahul, who scored a brilliant century in the Asia Cup Super-4 match against Pakistan, has made a shocking revelation after the match. Rahul has told that 5 minutes before the toss, head coach Rahul Dravid told him that he is going to play this match otherwise he was assuming that he will be seen bowling in this match.

Shreyas Iyer was the first choice in this match against Pakistan but due to back spasm he had to miss the match after which Rahul was included in the team. Taking full advantage of this opportunity, Rahul made a brilliant comeback and remained unbeaten till the end and played a brilliant inning of 111 runs in 106 balls. During this period, 12 fours and 2 sixes were also seen from his bat.

After this match, KL Rahul spoke to Star Sports and said, "Rahul (Dravid) bhai told me 5 minutes before the toss that I was playing. I had not brought anything with me, because I thought I would be playing. "I will only serve water in this match. Strange things have happened to me in my career and this was one of those things."

Let us tell you that Rahul along with Virat Kohli made an unbroken partnership of 233 runs for the third wicket, due to which the Indian team was successful in reaching the huge score of 356 runs. After this, when the Indian team came out to bowl, the Pakistani batsmen completely laid down their weapons in front of Kuldeep Yadav. In this match, Kuldeep took a brilliant five wickets for just 25 runs in his eight overs. Apart from this, Shardul Thakur, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah also took one wicket each, due to which Pakistan team was restricted to just 128 runs in 32 overs.

In this match, Kohli was chosen Player of the Match for his unbeaten inning of 122 runs in 94 balls. This is Virat's 47th century in ODI cricket and with this he also completed 13 thousand runs in ODI cricket.