KL Rahul vs Rabada IPL record: KL Rahul vs Punjab Kings stats and last 5 innings list

Dixit Bhargav | 29/04/2022
KL Rahul vs Rabada IPL record: KL Rahul vs Punjab Kings stats and last 5 innings list

KL Rahul vs Rabada IPL record: The captain of Lucknow Super Giants will be facing Punjab Kings after a six-year gap.

The 42nd match of the ongoing 15th season of the Indian Premier League will be played between Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants in Pune tonight.

The contest will witness Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul, close friends and captains of both teams respectively, locking horns against each other right after opening the batting for Punjab for four seasons in a row. Rahul, who kick-started his captaincy career at PBKS during IPL 2020, will be facing them for the first time since 2016.

Rahul’s six IPL matches against his previous franchise had come for Royal Challengers Bangalore (two stints) and Sunrisers Hyderabad across four separate seasons.

UPDATE: The below mentioned paragraphs and table have been updated.

In seven innings against Kings, Rahul has scored 190 runs at an average and strike rate of 38 and 136.69 respectively. Although in a losing cause, Rahul had scored a maiden half-century against this opposition as recent as less than a couple of weeks ago.

Runs Balls 4s 6s Ground Year
74 56 8 1 Lucknow 2023
6 11 1 0 Pune 2022
16* 6 3 0 Bengaluru 2016
42 25 6 1 Mohali 2016
17* 10 1 1 Hyderabad 2015

As a fielder and a wicket-keeper, Rahul has affected four catches, a stumping and a run-out each against Punjab.

KL Rahul vs Rabada IPL record (updated)

Rahul, who hasn’t been in the best of forms this season, could face Kings pacer Kagiso Rabada in the powerplay assuming they play him ahead of Nathan Ellis. It is noteworthy that the South African bowler has had an upper hand in this rivalry over the years.

Rahul, who has faced Rabada on six occasions in the past, has scored 44 (34) including getting out against him twice in the IPL. Apart from the IPL, the duo has also faced each other in the shortest format at the highest level. All in all, Rahul has scored 60 (56) off Rabada across nine T20 innings.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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