Rahul to miss IPL due to shoulder injury
The Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered a big blow as K. L. Rahul will miss the Indian Premier League (IPL) due to a shoulder injury. Team sources said the India opener will soon be travelling to London to undergo surgery.
Published : Mar 31, 2017 11:31 IST
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player K. L. Rahul will miss the 2017 IPL season due to a shoulder injury. The 24-year-old confirmed the same to Sportstar, and that he will undergo a surgery soon.
Rahul had injured his shoulder in the first Test between India and Australia over a month ago, but played the rest of the four-Test series.
The Karnataka opener gave a good account of himself in that series, recording six fifties in seven innings.
With skipper and star player Virat Kohli out for the first few matches, Rahul’s exit comes as a double blow for RCB. Last year, Rahul had finished as the franchise’s third-highest run-scorer, and established himself as a reliable presence at the top of the batting order. He also kept wickets for the team.
In a practice match held at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Friday, where members of the RCB squad were split into two opposing teams, Kedar Jadhav donned the wicketkeeping gloves.