My celebration after scoring century was message to everyone to shut out the noise: KL Rahul
Pune: After going through a lean patch in the T20I series against the visiting England side, Indian batsman KL Rahul struck form in the ODI series. KL began the ODI series with a well-timed half-century and followed it with a brilliant century in the second ODI that set the platform for the team to post a dominant 336/5 at the end of the innings.
Rahul came into bat when the Indian side was struggling at 37-2 with both the openers back into the pavilion and skipper Kohli on the other end. The duo formed a crucial partnership of 121 runs and laid a strong foundation for a big total.
Rahul scored his fifth ODI hundred before departing after scoring 108 off 114 deliveries. After completing his century Rahul displayed his ‘Monk-like’ celebration holding both his hands near his ears and closing his eyes.
Asked about the celebration after the innings, Rahul said it was a message for “everybody to shut-out the noise”. He further added that there are people who try to pull others down and that as sportsperson they need to neglect them.
Rahul faced criticism from several ends when he was going through a rough patch and fans and experts had questioned his place in the team ahead of other players waiting in the wings.
“It is just to shut out the noise, not to disrespect anyone. There are people out there who try to pull you down, at times you need to neglect them. So that's just a message to shut out that noise” Rahul said at the mid-innings interview.
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4 killed, 27 injured in bus-truck collision on Jaipur-Bikaner National Highway
Jaipur (PTI): Four people were killed and 27 others injured after a bus collided head-on with a truck on Jaipur-Bikaner National Highway in the Sikar district of Rajasthan on Tuesday night.
The sleeper bus was travelling from Bikaner towards Jaipur when they rammed into each other.
The police said that four persons died in the accident, adding that 15 injured were admitted to the Sikar district hospital while 13 were given primary treatment at Fatehgarh. One critically injured person referred from the Sikar district hospital to SMS Hospital in Jaipur died during treatment, the police said.
The group of passengers was returning Gujarat after visiting Jammu and Kashmir when the accident occurred, the police added.
