KL Rahul Eyes T20I Comeback with World Cup 2026 in Focus After Stellar IPL 2025 Season

KL Rahul, the Indian batter, said that he has his sights set on the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka next year after missing lifting the cup with the Indian national team at Barbados in 2024. Rahul had a fairly good IPL season, scoring 539 runs but could not help Delhi Capitals qualify for the playoffs.

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"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 said in a Sky Sports interview with former England skipper Nasser Hussain.

“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,” he added.

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Speaking in the same interview, Rahul spoke about the difficulty of having to continuously prove himself. The batter from Karnataka said that he has a difficult job of trying to prove himself when those making decisions seem to always forget about his contribution all round.

“I don’t mind proving myself all the time. That’s how any sport is – to always perform in every tournament. That’s the case with international cricketers anywhere in the world. But that’s not the hard part – it’s the people who make the decisions who seem to forget what the player has done in the recent tournament. It has been the challenge for me,” he said.

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