Kananur Lokesh Rahul, commonly known as K.L. Rahul (born April 18, 1992) is an Indian cricketer who plays home cricket in Karnataka and is captain of the Punjab Kings of the Indian Premier League. Rahul made his international debut in 2014 and marked his first century of testing in a second test match. Rahul was the first Indian to commemorate the centenary with his debut at One Inch. 



Kannur Lokesh Rahul, aka K.L. Rahul, scored 188 points in the Ranji Trophy final against Tamil Nadu in 2014-2015 and finished the season with an impressive 93.11 average. Rahul played in nine matches and made his Twenty20 international debut on June 18, 2016 at the Harare Sports Club. 

In the same season, Lokesh Rahul represented his country (India) at the 2010 Cricket World Under-19 Championship (CWC) with 143 points in the tournament. Kannur Lokesh Rahul made his India Premier League (IPL) debut in 2013 with the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Play as India internationally, Karnataka nationally and Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League. 

At 11 he participated in the trials for children under 13 years old, but did not make the final list, and at 12 he started playing cricket as a child. At 12 he started playing cricket with clubs. 

Rahul plays in Indian home cricket for Karnataka and made his debut for Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy season 2010/11. Rahul was also selected to compete in the 2010 U19 Cricket World Cup with a total of 143 points, but made his international cricket debut in the Test Against Australia format at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 2014. 

He also made his debut in the T20 International Tournament on the same tour and played his first T20 international match against Zimbabwe on 18 June 2016 and his first century at the Cricket. World Cup. World Cup against Sri Lanka in this tournament is currently the third Indian striker to score centuries in all three international cricket formats. Rahul remains the only striker to win a triple century in a top-notch match. 

Rahul made his debut in the India Tests on Boxing Day Tests against Australia in Melbourne in 2014. Playing for the South Zone in the Duleep Trophy final against the Central Zone in 2014-15, Rahul scored 185 of 233 in the first innings and 130 of 152 in the second.😨 

He was named player of the match and then qualified for the Indian test team for the Australian tour by scoring 18 points in the first inning and 61 points in the second inning, which resulted in his team winning eight wickets. He was part of a 15-member team on a tour of Bangladesh and India in June 2015, but retired due to dengue fever. 



In the next test he scored 110 points in Sydney including 13 fours and one six for 262 goals. With its debut match with ODI he celebrated his centenary and became the first Indian player to achieve such success. 100 points with 115 goals including seven fours and one six. And he becomes the second Indian player to break the age limit in three international cricket formats. 

Indian cricketer K.L. Rahul is currently one of the most popular figures in Indian sports. A regular for the Indian team in all formats and also a captain of the Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the IPL, Rahul made his debut for Karnataka in the 2010-11 season. A tall, sleek right-hander who can hold the wicket in a crisis, K.L. Rahul ranks among the top-ranked strikers in the next generation of India. 

K.L. Rahul is an elegant top-notch hitter and casual wicket player, Kannaur Lokesh Rahul's sheer talent makes him one of the most exciting cricketers in the world. He grew up in Mangalore, attended NITK English Medium School and the Pre-university college of Saint Aloysius. 

He started cricket at the age of 10, and two years later he started playing a cricket match for both the Bangalore United Cricket Club and his club in Mangalore, at 18 he moved to Bangalore to study at Jain University and pursue a career in cricket. ... 

Rahul is an Indian cricketer who plays as a top-notch right-hander and sometimes also as a wicketkeeper. Rahul is a top-notch professional cricketer from India, playing in all three international formats for India. 

He managed to convince them, and he began his professional cricket training. Rahul had been deeply fond of cricket since childhood and wanted to become a professional. 



Rahuls' father, K.N. Lokesh, is a professor and former Director of NIT in Karnataka and his mother is a professor at the University of Mangalore, and Rahuls' father wanted his son to be called Gavaskar, the 29-year-old from Karnataka also holds a BA in Commerce before pursuing his dream of playing cricket for India.