Father's dream was for his son to become an engineer, but Rahul's heart was in cricket.

KL Rahul Birthday: KL Rahul was born in the year 1992 on this day i.e. 18th April in Bengaluru. His full name is Kannaur Lokesh Rahul, but he is mostly known as KL Rahul. Today his age is 32 years. Famous personalities associated with cricket and other fields are sending him birthday wishes. Rahul is one of the best cricketers in the world today, but his father wanted him to be an engineer. His father's name is Dr. KN Lokesh, who has been the director of National Institute of Technology Karnataka. There was pressure from his father to become an engineer, but Rahul's heart was in cricket.

KL Rahul was actually very good in studies, his father's dream was that his son should become an engineer. But Rahul was not ready to leave cricket under any circumstances and he started taking this game seriously by taking admission in Mangalore Cricket Club at the age of 10. Rahul overcame the struggle of domestic cricket and made his debut in Test cricket for the Indian team in 2014. Rahul has so far played 50 test matches and scored 2,863 runs in his career. Apart from this, he has scored 2,820 runs in 75 ODI matches. He has also scored 2,265 runs while playing 72 matches in his T20 career.

Captains LSG in IPL

There was a time when KL Rahul's father wanted to take him away from cricket and make him an engineer, but today he is the captain of a team in the world's biggest cricket league, IPL. He has been captaining Lucknow Super Giants since 2022 and has taken his team to the playoffs in the last two seasons. Although his team has not been able to become champion yet, but his team looks very strong in IPL 2024 also. LSG has currently won 3 out of 6 matches and is at 5th position in the points table. If we look at Rahul's personal performance, till now he has scored 204 runs after playing 6 matches in IPL 2024.

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