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KL Rahul of Delhi Capitals (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images)
KL Rahul precocious opened up astir his amusive relationship with England large Kevin Pietersen, sharing a hilarious communicative astir however their IPL 2025 banter led him to jokingly kick to Pietersen’s wife, Jessica. During this year’s IPL season, Rahul and Pietersen were some portion of the Delhi Capitals setup. Rahul had joined the franchise from Lucknow Super Giants, portion Pietersen took implicit arsenic the squad mentor. Their playful on-field and off-field exchanges became a instrumentality favourite passim the tournament.Also Watch:
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Speaking connected the 2 Sloggers YouTube podcast, Rahul revealed however his wife, histrion Athiya Shetty, had teased him aft watching a fewer of their banter clips connected Delhi Capitals’ societal media handles. “Our banter is different. He is simply a large sport. He gives it to you also,” Rahul said with a laugh. “There was this video, and determination were two-three times wherever I said thing and DC posted it connected Instagram. So, my woman was telling me, ‘Why are you being truthful mean? He is specified a saccharine guy.’” Rahul added that what fans saw online was lone a tiny portion of their changeless back-and-forth. “Half the things that helium does to maine and tells me, that doesn’t travel out,” helium said.
“This is 3 times that I person fixed retired of the 100 times helium is aft my life.” He besides recalled a comic infinitesimal from a meal with Pietersen and his woman during a travel to England earlier this year. “I complained to his woman erstwhile we were successful the UK. They invited maine for meal and I told her, ‘Tell your hubby to spell casual connected me. He is precise rude to me,’” Rahul laughed. Their affable exchanges added charm to Delhi Capitals’ 2025 campaign, often giving fans entertaining moments connected societal media. Pietersen, who had earlier been captious of Rahul’s cautious batting successful T20s, aboriginal praised him for his fearless and match-winning displays during the season. Rahul carried that signifier into India’s circuit of England, scoring 532 runs successful 10 innings with 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries, proving his assurance and consistency were backmost astatine their best.
