KL Rahul talks about 2019 World Cup semifinal loss; says 'it still haunts us'

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.

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'It has to be World Cup semi-final': Rahul

"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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KL Rahul donates his 2019 World Cup bat

It has been learned that Rahul has decided to auction his World Cup 2019 bat and as per reports, all  proceeds from auction will go to ‘Aware Foundation’. Meanwhile, opening batsman who had celebrated his 28th birthday recently went on to say that he has decided to donate his cricket pads, gloves, bats and some of his jerseys to ir collaboration partner Bharat Army who will be auctioning m and funds will go towards Aware Foundation.

Speaking about foundation, make-shift wicket-keeper added that foundation that look towards helping children and he could t have chosen a better day apart from his birthday to come foward for this ble cause. Coming back to cricket, Rahul was all set to lead 2014 finalists Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2020 which was supposed to get underway on March 29 but has w been indefinitely suspended due to global pandemic. 

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(With PTI inputs)

(Im Courtesy: AP)