KL Rahul picks Virat Kohli to bat for his life; highlights the 'great friendship'

Dynamic Indian batsman KL Rahul recently opened up about his camaraderie with India skipper Virat Kohli and named latter as player 'to bat for his life' during interaction. duo has been seen spotted spending time with each or off field in tour games as y get along well. 

During an interaction online, KL Rahul said that Kohli is a great player like everyone kws and y share a great bond of friendship.

“I’ll go with Virat (Kohli) because I kw, everybody kws he is a great player,” he said.

“We share a great friendship and he will give it all to save my life,” he added.

KL Rahul was set to lead Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) franchise in IPL 2020, but Coronavirus pandemic bright cricketing world to a standstill. In his last tour against New Zealand, KL Rahul scored a century and one half-century in ODI series.

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KL Rahul Talks About 2019 World Cup Semifinal Loss

KL Rahul had an outstanding World Cup 2019 where he became an opener from a middle-order batsman after regular opener Shikhar Dhawan's tournament was cut short due to a thumb fracture. He played some stellar kcks which helped Men In Blue reach semis. However, he had an off day in semi-final against New Zealand where India were reduced to 5/3 and eventually ended up losing contest by 18 runs. w, Rahul has come forward and revealed that most of players of that squad including himself are yet to get over it.

"It has to be World Cup semifinal. I think most of us are still t over that loss, it is still haunts us sometimes," he said.

"I can't imagine what senior players must have felt but you kw in a World Cup it just becomes even harder kwing that we played so well in entire tournament. I still wake up to that nightmare sometimes", said KL Rahul during a recent chat show.

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