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KL Rahul IPL 2025 Profile: Team, Price, Stats and Records

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KL Rahul IPL 2025 Profile 

India has produced many finest cricket players in the history of this gentlemen’s game and the batsman from Karnataka, Kannur Lokesh Rahul is certainly one of those gems of Indian cricket. KL Rahul was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka on April 18th 1992 and he grew up in Mangalore to completed his high school. KL Rahul is a wicketkeeper batsman of Team India. He can also open the innings when needed and even bat in the middle order. Rahul is a pure team man, who can do anything for his country and the IPL team.

The wicketkeeper batter from Karnataka, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has a decent career in the Indian Premier League so far. Rahul is a pure match winner in the T20 format as well. As said above, KL is a versatile batter who can bat as an opener, in the middle order, keep wickets and also play as a safe fielder in the outfield. KL is a reliable leader. He had led two IPL franchise and the Indian Team at the international level as well. In the IPL, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has played for the teams like RCB, SRH, KXIP, LSG and now in IPL 2025, Rahul is with DC (Delhi Capitals). 

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KL Rahul IPL Debut

KL Rahul played the Indian Premier League for the first time in 2013 and at that time he represented the franchise side of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the match versus the current defending champions, Kolkata Knight Riders. KL didn’t get a chance to bat in that game and RCB won the match by 8 wickets. Since 2013, the Karnataka batter has been a regular feature in this cash rich league tournament. KL has even captained two franchise teams as well.

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KL Rahul IPL Team From 2013 To 2025

As mentioned above, the Karnataka batter Kannur Lokesh Rahul made his IPL debut for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2013. Then, he has played for three more IPL franchise teams in his IPL career. He has played for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and now Delhi Capitals as a batter. For DC he has been the wicketkeeper batter in TATA IPL 2025, while for Kings XI Punjab and Lucknow Super Giants, KL Rahul has been the captain of those franchise teams in this cash rich league tournament.

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The star batter of Karnataka, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has played for five teams of the Indian Premier League till now and he has also captained two franchise sides in his career in this cash rich league tournament history. As a player, KL Rahul has played for RCB, SRH and DC. At the same time, Rahul led the teams like Punjab and Lucknow as the skipper.  For RCB, Rahul has scored 417 runs from 19 matches, for SRH, 308 runs, for LSG, 1410 runs, for Punjab, 2548 runs and DC, 493 runs in 11 games in TATA IPL 2025.

KL Rahul IPL 2025 Team

Last year, KL Rahul was with the team of Lucknow Super Giants and he was also the captain of LSG for three seasons, 2022, 2023 and 2024. But in this season, the Super Giants decided to part ways with the Karnataka batter and they released him from their squad. Now KL Rahul plays for Delhi Capitals in TATA IPL 2025.

KL Rahul IPL 2025 Price

The Delhi Capitals franchise team wanted to buy Kannur Lokesh Rahul as their next captain for this season of TATA IPL 2025 after Rishabh Pant was released from their franchise team. But KL is playing the 18th edition solely as a wicketkeeper batter for the DC team KL Rahul was one of the most expensive buys in TATA IPL 2025. He stands seventh in the list of the most expensive players list in Indian Premier League 2025 season. As we all know, Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in the history of this cash rich league tournament with 27 crores. KL Rahul IPL 2025 price is 14 crores. Rahul’s base price was 2 crore this season.

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KL Rahul IPL Career

KL Rahul Batting Stats

Overall, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has played 143 matches and 134 innings in the Indian Premier League and he has scored 5176 runs in this cash rich league tournament. Here is the breakdown of his runs scored in each season of 2013 to 2025 –

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KL Rahul IPL Record List 

One of the notable record of KL Rahul in the Indian Premier League is that he has reached the 5000 runs in the tournament’s history in a fewer innings compared to the other stalwarts of this cash rich league tournament. Kannur Lokesh Rahul has scored five thousand runs in 130 innings of the TATA IPL, which has put the legends like Virat Kohli, David Warner, AB De Villiers, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and Mahendra Singh Dhoni behind in this regard.

The Karnataka batter also holds the record of scoring the second fastest half century in the Indian Premier League. Yashaswi Jaiswal is the holder of this record, when the opening batter from Rajasthan Royals scored a fifty from just 13 deliveries in the season of Indian Premier League 2023 versus KKR at Eden Gardens.

But Kannur Lokesh Rahul was the holder of this record previously. As an opening batter of Kings XI Punjab, which is known as Punjab Kings now, the former skipper of KXIP (PBKS) had smashed a half century in just 14 deliveries when he played an IPL match against his current franchise Delhi Capitals during the IPL edition of 2018.

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KL Rahul Runs In IPL

Kannur Lokesh Rahul has scored more than five thousand runs in his career of the Indian Premier League. The Karnataka batter has scored 5176 runs overall in his career of the cash rich league tournament.

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KL Rahul Highest Score in IPL

The highest score by Kannur Lokesh Rahul in the Indian Premier League is 132 unbeaten runs which he scored against that franchise side where he made his debut in this cash rich league tournament in 2013. Rahul smashed his highest score versus the franchise side of Royal Challengers Bengaluru during the IPL 2020 edition which was played in the United Arab Emirates. He scored those many runs at Dubai International Stadium in Dubai.

KL Rahul All IPL Centuries

The Karnataka batsman has scored 5 centuries in the Indian Premier League, which is the fourth most in this league and all his three figured mark in this cash rich league tournament have come as an opening batter. KL Rahul All IPL Centuries are also unbeaten ones. He has scored three tons versus MI, one each against RCB and GT till now. KL’s first ever ton for DC came in yesterday’s game versus Gujarat Titans at Delhi in TATA IPL 2025.

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KL Rahul Total Dismissal In The IPL

KL Rahul has been on 11th in this list. He has 66 dismissals to his name with 59 catches and 7 stumping.

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Kannur Lokesh Rahul has played for the teams like Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Kings XI Punjab, Lucknow Super Giants, and now he is playing for the Delhi Capitals franchise side in this year’s TATA IPL 2025.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul made his debut in the Indian Premier League in the 2013 season for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru side in a match against the team of Kolkata Knight Riders.
In the 143 matches and 133 innings of the Indian Premier League, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has scored 5064 runs in his IPL career which started in 2013 and it is still going on in this 18th edition of TATA IPL 2025 season.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul has scored four centuries in the Indian Premier League as of now. His first century in the IPL came in 2019 and his last century in this cash rich league tournament was in 2022. KL Rahul has scored three centuries against Mumbai Indians. One in 2019 and two in 2022. The lone versus Royal Challengers Bengaluru came in 2020 season of the Indian Premier League at Dubai International Stadium in Dubai.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul had scored an unbeaten 132 runs when he played for the Kings XI Punjab in the season of Indian Premier League 2020 season. That match was against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Dubai.
Till Now Kannur Lokesh Rahul has scored 40 half centuries in the Indian Premier League.
NO. Kannur Lokesh Rahul is yet to win a trophy in the Indian Premier League as a player and as a captain as well.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul scored the most 670 runs in the season of 2020, which can be rated as his best edition in the Indian Premier League for Kings XI Punjab.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul has won the Orange Cap in the Indian Premier League just once till now. In 2020 season of IPL, KL Rahul scored 670 runs to get that year’s Orange Cap.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul has played the Indian Premier League as a wicketkeeper as well and he has picked up 59 catches in this tournament.
Kannur Lokesh Rahul has captained two franchise teams in the Indian Premier League. First he led the team of Kings XI Punjab from 2020 to 2022 and then he went on to captain the Lucknow Super Giants team from 2022 to 2024. So KL Rahul has led an IPL team for four long years.
As a wicketkeeper, Kannur Lokesh Rahul has made seven stumpings in the Indian Premier League.

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