The pupil between Kl Rahul and Kevin Pietersen is one of the most entertaining IPL 2025 subplots. Delhi Capitals dough and the team mentor attacked a series of live exchanges on Tuesday, 22 and April.
Rahul, who played the wrestling-playing knocking 57 out of 42 vans, won a medal in the dressing room-but not before he was in the lead that he wanted to accept him from Pietersen. The gesture was another nodd at their ongoing joke and Pietersen, pleasantly surprised, entered with a smile in honor in the form of a goal.
Their joke dates back to the tournament when Rahul reminded the former English captain of the past note – that watching him by a bat was similar to watching the color of dry. The clip of this light exchange, which took place after winning Delhi nad Chennai Super Kings, quickly became a viral. Not long after Rahul landed another digging, This time in Pietersen’s escape in the middle of the Maldives season.
This was for the brilliant backstage content, with Pietersen caught a middle conversation with SHUBMAN GILL to discuss the duties of the mentor in IPL. Rahul jumped in and joked that two weeks in the Maldives in the middle of the season were part of the job description.
Rahul’s relaxed and confident approach this season reflected his performance on the pitch. During the persecution of a modest 160-running goal against his former franchise, he had complete control. Rahul came to No. 3 and sewed together a 69-run stand with a young opener Abhishek Porel, who struck 51 out of 36 vans.
Rahul played compound shifts, hit three sixes and so many boundaries. He read the situation well and resisted any temptation to play rashes. Axar patel, launching on No. 4, assuming that she has completed a touch with a fresh 34 out of 20 balls as Delhi packed the chase for only 17.5 overs.
The dominant victory was driven by Delhi capitals in second place in the IPL point table 2025 points. Now they are at the level of 12 points with Gujarat Titans after eight matches, with only a net rate of running separates both sides.
Delhi Capitals will face Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the ARUN Jaitley stadium in Nový Delhi on Sunday 27th April.
Published:
Akshay Ramesh
Published on:
23 April 2025
