KL Rahul picks this bowler as toughest to keep wickets to

Rahul started keeping wickets in international cricket from the limited-overs series against Australia in January this year.

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On Sunday (May 10), India’s KL Rahul picked the toughest bowler to keep wickets during a Question-Answer session on Twitter.

Rahul, who has played 36 Tests, 32 ODIS and 42 T20Is so far, started keeping wickets in international cricket from the limited-overs series against Australia in January this year and later went on to don the gloves during the tour of New Zealand.

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When a fan asked him, “Are you enjoying wicketkeeping? Who is the toughest bowler to keep?”, Rahul replied: “Absolutely enjoying wicketkeeping. The toughest bowler to keep to is @Jaspritbumrah93”.

Last month, Rahul had acknowledged the pressure of replacing MS Dhoni as a wicketkeeper in India’s white-ball team.

“I was nervous when I was doing it for India because of the crowd pressure. If you fumble, people feel that you cannot replace MS Dhoni. The pressure of replacing a legendary wicket-keeper like MSD was immense as it involved people accepting someone else behind the stumps,” he had said on Star Sports’ show ‘Cricket Connected’.

After donning the keeping gloves, KL Rahul’s batting performances have also improved by many folds. He was the Player-of-the-Series in India’s 5-0 T20I series win over the Kiwis and also scored his maiden ODI ton on the same tour.