Former West Indies captain Brian Lara lauded India batsman KL Rahul and picked him as his current favorite international cricketer. Rahul is in good touch with the bat and he's part of the Indian squad for all three formats on the Australia tour.
World cricket has a good number of talented players to watch out for across different nations. But when ex-Australia captain Ricky Ponting asked Lara about his favorite cricketer, the Caribbean great came up with Rahul's name during a discussion for 7 Cricket.
“Brian, who is your favorite player in international cricket at the moment?”, asked Ponting, the host broadcaster for the India vs Australia Test series with Lara and Sunil Gavaskar.
“That’s easy! It’s KL Rahul. If you’re talking about the two teams that are playing, KL Rahul it is for me. He is someone I’d pay to watch to bat,” replied Lara.
“In the world Jofra Archer is excellent, Nicholas Pooran is there but I just love watching KL Rahul, especially in T20s, I know he’s going into Test cricket but in T20 when you see guy batting correctly with the ability to score runs with traditional shots, is just exceptional to watch,” he added.
Rahul is coming back to the Indian Test side after being left out because of poor form. He was given a good number of opportunities but apart from one or two good innings, Rahul couldn't make the opportunities count in red-ball cricket.
But his current form in white-ball cricket gives good signs and the team management backed him for the Australia tour for all three formats.
“He’s an interesting one for me. If you wind the clock 2-3 years back, he was probably an out and out technically correct Test match batsman but what he’s been able to do with his T20 batting in the last 2 IPLs has been unbelievable. He’s probably turned himself into a better white-ball player now. That doesn’t happen that often,” Ponting added.
(Quotes from 7 Cricket)
