Watch: KL Rahul’s jaw-dropping six over extra cover has fans raving all over social media

During the fifth T20I of ongoing India’s tour of New Zealand in Auckland, Indian wicket-keeper batsman Lokesh Rahul played a gorgeous shot which sent the ball sailing over the boundary for a six over covers of New Zealand stand-in captain Tim Southee’s bowling.

Too good KL#NZvIND pic.twitter.com/1zjxRC47OV

— Heisenberg (@RitwikBittu) February 2, 2020

Opening the batting with Sanju Samson, KL Rahul stitched a decent partnership for the second wicket alongside Stand-in India captain Rohit Sharma.

KLassy Rahul

As always Rahul made batting look easy with his classy approach. He was hitting the ball cleanly and with class.  The cricketing world was amazed by one of his shots in this match. He whacked Tim Southee gorgeously over covers for a six. Cricketing legends and fans all over the world were absolutely taken aback by this shot that they took to Twitter to express their amazement.

If K L Rahul doesn't score another run ever, that drive over extra cover for six should be immortalized in a logo.

— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi) February 2, 2020

UFFFFFFF! ???

KL Rahul leans a touch, brings his bottom hand into play and lofts it cleanly over extra cover for half a dozen. What a hit! ?

?? 16/1 (2.1)#SaddaPunjab #NZvIND

— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) February 2, 2020

Oh, gorgeous from KL Rahul (the six over cover off Southee). He takes your breath away sometimes.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) February 2, 2020

Rahul proves his consistency

Rahul once again looked at his best with the bat in the final game of the series. He notched up 45 off just 33 balls with 4 fours and a couple of sixes before getting out to Hamish Bennett. He ended the series with 224 runs to his name in five innings and even smashed a couple of half-centuries as well.

 Rahul’s other scores in the series read 56, 57*, 27 and 39 which could even make him eligible for the man of the series award.

With this innings, Rahul becomes the highest run-getter for India in a bilateral series in Men’s T20Is surpassing his skipper Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli held the record of scoring the most runs in a bilateral series in the T20Is for India previously. He had piled up 199 runs against Australia in three matches in 2016.

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