KL Rahul delivered strong performances for Delhi Capitals (DC) in the Indian Premier Legaue (IPL) 2025, excelling in both top and middle-order roles.

The wicketkeeper-batter ended the season with 539 runs in 13 innings at an average of 53.90 and a strike rate of 149.72, including one hundred and three half-centuries.

Rahul will now travel to England for the five-match Test series, starting June 20 in Leeds. But fresh from a seventh 500-run IPL season, the stylish right-hander has bigger plans set for himself.

Rahul wants to revive his T20I career despite not featuring in the shortest format for India since November 2022.

In an interview with Nasser Hussain on Sky Sports, the 33-year-old expressed his desire to play the T20 World Cup, scheduled for February-March next year in India and Sri Lanka.

"Yes, I want to get back in the T20 team and the World Cup is in my mind, but for now it's just trying to enjoy how I'm playing right now," Rahul said.

However, he is rather reserved about having a chat with the Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee or with the T20I captain.

"If you have seen how my career has gone, I don't think I really had a choice or I have never been a player to speak with the selectors and sit with the captain and tell the captain that this is what I want to do. I just want to be in the team and whatever challenge is thrown at me, I have found that's better for me to adapt to rather than me trying to sit and think about what I need to do. When the role is given to me and the coaches and the captain and the selectors tell me that look this is what we are expecting for you, may be No.5, maybe No. 6, open the batting. Yeah, that sort of gives me a clarity and then I work around my game," Rahul added.

Having a 500-run season in the IPL was never an issue for Rahul, who has come under severe scrutiny in recent years mainly due to his strike rate in the shortest format. Since that extraordinary season in 2018, where he had touched 158.41, Rahul failed to get his strike rate above 140 until 2025, when he returned with 149.72.

"I obviously had some time to think about my white-ball game and white-ball cricket; I was quite happy with my performances and where I was," Rahul said. “But [there] was a time probably 15 months ago or 12 months ago where I realised that the game is slightly getting ahead or it's changing and becoming much more faster, and I said this in an interview as well, that it's become more about the team that hits more boundaries is winning the games more often than the team that's, I can't say playing smarter, but the team that doesn't hit as many boundaries is always finding themselves on the losing side."

Rahul revealed on how he worked on his game with the help of former India assistant coach Abhishek Nayar after being snubbed from the 2024 T20 World Cup squad.

"So that's where white-ball cricket is getting and I haven't been part of the T20 team in the last couple of years. [That's] given me some time to think about my T20 game as well," Rahul said. "So, overall, just sitting and thinking about where I can get better, where the game's gone and what I need to do to catch up with the game and what can I do to perform and get back in the T20 team, what can I do to become an important player for my team in ODI and T20 overall in white-ball cricket...

"Just sitting and thinking about these things, I've come up with certain things obviously with the help of coaches that I've worked with, Abhishek Nayar is one of the guys I've worked with in the last 12 months quite a lot. He's come into the Indian team as a batting coach [but has been removed since] so I spent a lot of time with him and he really helped in helping me change my thinking and helping me work on my game."