Overview
- On the 2 Sloggers podcast, Rahul identified IPL 2023 with Lucknow as his lowest point after a right‑thigh tendon tear against RCB required surgery and ended his season.
- Rahul recounted a light-hearted dinner in the UK where he told Jessica Pietersen to ask Kevin Pietersen to “go easy” on him, adding that wife Athiya Shetty had teased him over their public banter.
- Responding to a comparison with Aaron Finch’s many-team career, Rahul said “I am also not too far,” a cheeky line that outlets report has renewed speculation about a possible IPL 2026 trade.
- Since leaving LSG, Rahul has thrived at Delhi Capitals in 2025 with 539 runs at a strike rate near 150 while featuring in the middle order, including two centuries and two fifties.
- He carried that form into India’s tour of England, scoring 532 Test runs across 10 innings with two hundreds and two half-centuries.