KL Rahul: Indian cricket team's star batsman KL Rahul has been facing continuous criticism for some time. In fact, many Indian fans blame KL Rahul's slow innings for the defeat at the hands of Australia in the 2023 World Cup final.

Since then, questions are continuously raised on the intentions and strike rate of this Karnataka cricketer. However, when KL Rahul started his international career, he played exactly in accordance with his so-called image. The century scored by an Indian cricketer in 46 balls is an example of that. Today we are going to discuss about that great innings in this article.

When KL Rahul showed his scary side

Actually this incident happened on August 27, 2016. A T20 match was being played between India and West Indies. If we talk about this match, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni decided to bat first after winning the toss. West Indies team, who came to bat first, scored 245 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. For his part, Evan Lewis scored a brilliant century.

In response to this, Team India, which was chasing the target, was forced to struggle after losing two wickets at the score of just 48. However, after this, KL Rahul not only took charge of his team but also batted brilliantly. The right-handed batsman scored 110 runs in 51 balls with the help of 12 fours and 5 sixes. Although he could not lead his team to victory. In the end India had to lose the match by 1 run.

This was KL Rahul's performance in the Bangladesh Test series.

Recently, KL Rahul was a part of Team India during the two-match Test series played against Bangladesh. He scored a total of 106 runs in three innings of two matches. This included one half-century. However, in the first test he could score only 16 and 22.

Whereas in the second test, when Team India needed it, KL scored 68 excellent runs in difficult conditions. It remains to be seen whether the selectors give a chance to this player in the upcoming Test series against New Zealand or not.