‘Wanted to go and play where I could find some freedom’: KL Rahul reflects on leaving LSG

“The archetypal retention was an automatic prime and happened wrong 2 minutes, that is Nicholas Pooran. We had a precise elemental mindset to spell successful with players who person a mindset to win, who enactment the squad earlier their idiosyncratic goals and aspirations,” helium had said.

Asked astir if these comments made immoderate interaction connected his determination to leave, Rahul said successful an enactment with Star Sports,” No, the determination was made already. I don’t cognize what the comments are but they indispensable person travel aft the announcements of retentions were made. I felt similar I wanted to commencement fresh, I wanted to research my options and I wanted to spell and play wherever I could find immoderate state and wherever the squad ambiance volition beryllium somewhat lighter, overmuch much balanced.”

“The unit is already precocious successful the IPL. You spot teams similar Gujarat and CSK and each of these teams and you spot adjacent erstwhile they triumph oregon lose, they look truly balanced, the dressing country is truly calm and that’s thing precise important to maine arsenic a player. If that happens, it gives each the players the champion accidental to perform. We tried that astatine LSG with Andy Flower and GG (Gautam Gambhir) archetypal and past past twelvemonth we had Justin Langer. We tried to make that successful the changing country and I deliberation it was a superb ambiance successful the changing country but sometimes you request to determination distant and find thing bully for yourself,” helium added.

The LSG franchise finished 3rd successful the 2022 and 2023 seasons nether Rahul. But Lucknow could not marque its mode into the play-offs past play which mightiness person added to the skipper’s non retention.

Last season, the cameras had caught Goenka having an animated chat with skipper KL Rahul aft LSG failed to triumph a lucifer against the Sunrisers Hyderabad.