K.L. Rahul, after being adjudged player of the match during India’s ODI against Sri Lanka in Kolkata in January, had made a prophetic statement when asked to sum up a turbulent 2022.
Rahul had explained how he found that an injury makes an individual a different “person”, how the body “doesn’t react the same way” to a situation and how he has understood that it’s “challenging” to cope with the expectations of performing when you are “straight away put into international cricket”.
Eight months on, Rahul — whose international career has been a start-stop affair due to fitness issues — will face perhaps the toughest challenge of returning from an injury lay-off.
