Suspension was wake-up name for me: KL Rahul sheds gentle on ban after controversial Koffee with Karan episode
KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya confronted one another within the Indian Premier League on Monday the place the previous’s Lucknow Super Giants fell to the latter’s Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets. Both the gamers have at all times been touted as the subsequent massive factor in Indian cricket, with their careers intertwining one another alongside the best way. However, their most notorious second collectively was not on the cricket pitch however fairly on a chat present Koffee with Karan, hosted by Bollywood director Karan Johar.
KL Rahul not too long ago spoke within the YouTube present “Breakfast with Champions,” and make clear varied matters, together with his profession, life throughout his ban after that controversial episode of Koffee with Karan in addition to the origin of his identify.
In 2019, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya made an look on well-liked speak present “Koffee with Karan” and there have been fairly a couple of unsavoury and controversial feedback made in the course of the size of the present. They had been each suspended by the BCCI because of this and had been instructed to return residence from the Australia tour.
In the YouTube present, Rahul mentioned that it was a wake-up name for him to go in the fitting route and insisted that he was not a mischievous man in class or faculty.
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“It was like a wake-up call, like go in the right direction. I didn’t know how to handle that whole time initially. But it is what it is, it made me stronger,” he mentioned.
My mom made up a narrative in regards to the origin of my identify: Rahul
A number of fascinating tidbits got here out from this chat, probably the most noteworthy being that Rahul’s mom had made up a narrative relating to the origin of his identify.
“Her story was that she was a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan and his characters in the 90s were Rahul, right? So, I used to go with that story. I told one of my friends. who watches probably a lot of Bollywood movies, and he said, ‘Bro, Shah Rukh’s first character as Rahul was in 1994. You’re born in 1992. So, it doesn’t make sense’,” Rahul mentioned.
When he went to ask her about it, she mentioned, “Something like that… Who cares now!”
Rahul came upon he’s going to steer India in opposition to South Africa on Day 1 of the Johannesburg check
Rahul additionally revealed that he was solely knowledgeable on the morning of Day 1 of the Test match in opposition to South Africa in Johannesburg, earlier this 12 months, that he might be required to steer India.
“When I got the opportunity to captain the country in Johannesburg in a Test match, it happened so suddenly. Virat told me in the bus on the morning of the game that ‘I may not play this game because I have a stiff back’. Till I was in the bus and till I reached the ground for warmups, I was like ‘no, Virat can’t miss a game because of a small injury’,” Rahul mentioned.
“After the warmups is when the coach told me that he is not looking good and that I need to go wear the blazer and go for the toss. I didn’t have a blazer so I had to borrow Virat’s. When I was walking down the steps, I was like ‘this looks good on me’. I was always confident and happy,” he added.
