{"id":20769,"date":"2023-04-20T04:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=301492"},"modified":"2023-04-20T04:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:42:15","slug":"watching-kl-rahul-bat-in-powerplays-is-the-most-boring-thing-i-have-ever-been-through-kevin-pietersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/watching-kl-rahul-bat-in-powerplays-is-the-most-boring-thing-i-have-ever-been-through-kevin-pietersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching KL Rahul bat in powerplays is the most boring thing I have ever been through: Kevin Pietersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In match number 26 of the IPL between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Wednesday, KL Rahul was again criticised for his restrained approach. The LSG skipper managed only 39 runs from 32 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Former England captain <strong>Kevin Pietersen<\/strong>, who was commentating during the game, expressed his frustration with Rahul\u2019s lack of aggression, saying, <strong>\u201cWatching KL Rahul bat is the most boring thing I have ever been through.\u201d<\/strong> This comment has sparked a debate among fans and pundits about Rahul\u2019s approach to batting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 \"Watching KL Rahul bat in the powerplays is the most boring thing I have ever been through.\"<\/p>\n<p>:said Kevin Pietersen on air.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RRvsLSG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RRvsLSG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2u1HtT2ZXd\">pic.twitter.com\/2u1HtT2ZXd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sports_Himanshu\/status\/1648699991668699140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh man.. Kevin Pietersen said this in live commentary \"Watching KL Rahul bat in the powerplay is the most boring thing I've ever done.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8m4g2ZNT4\">pic.twitter.com\/y8m4g2ZNT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vishal. (@SPORTYVISHAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPORTYVISHAL\/status\/1648701384345399297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Watching KL Rahul bat in powerplays is the most boring thing I have ever been through,\" says Kevin Pietersen. <\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with him? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2O23?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2O23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_FaridKhan\/status\/1648720652482871297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In match number 26 of the IPL between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Sawai Mansingh\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,608],"class_list":["post-20769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-kevin-pietersen","tag-kl-rahul"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}