KL Rahul Captaincy: Captaincy never bothered him… Jonty Rhodes convinced of Rahul’s captaincy, gave bold statement

New Delhi:New franchise Lucknow Super Giants captain Lokesh Rahul’s bat finally came into play in IPL 2023. He thrashed the Punjab Kings bowlers fiercely. In such a situation, the fielding coach of the franchise, Jonty Rhodes, said after captain Lokesh Rahul scored his first half-century of the season, that this opener is never ‘bothered’ by the captaincy. Rahul scored 74 off 56 balls at the Ekana Sports Stadium on Saturday but His team had to face defeat by two wickets. Rahul had earlier also captained the Punjab Kings and Rhodes was part of the support staff at that time as well. Rhodes said in the press conference after the match, ‘The captain is the one who likes to lead from the front. He has always been a successful, dominating batsman in all IPLs. Captaincy is not something that has ever bothered him.

He said, ‘When captaincy is given to many great batsmen, they cannot handle it. He led from the front and I think it’s great to see. Rahul, however, has struggled to score runs in the current season and 35 was his highest score before Saturday’s innings. Rhodes said, ‘When the captain is scoring runs, he gives a really good platform to the others. We always knew he was just an innings away.

He is batting brilliantly in the nets. Against Punjab, when all the other Lucknow batsmen failed to make an impact, Rahul batted till the 19th over but Rhodes felt the captain could have stayed till the end and scored more runs. Apart from this, talking about the match, Lucknow had scored 159 runs at the loss of 8 wickets while batting first and had set a target of 160 runs in front of Pandab. In such a situation, Punjab achieved the target of 160 runs in 19.3 overs with two wickets in hand.
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