‘This one’s special’: Athiya Shetty gives shout-out to husband KL Rahul as he slams 9th Test ton

MUMBAI: Actor Athiya Shetty has praised her husband and cricketer K L Rahul for his 9th Test century. Athiya posted a picture of K L Rahul from the match on her Instagram Story on Monday, and wrote “This one is special”.

Athiya also reposted actor Arjun Kapoor’s Instagram Story, where Arjun can be seen playing cricket and wrote an adorable caption. “@klrahul stunning off drives while scoring his beautiful century in Headingley. Inspiring me in Bandra!!,” he captioned.

Indian opener K L Rahul continued his brilliant run in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia (SENA) conditions, re-writing record books with yet another classy century against England during the first Test at Leeds on Monday.

After playing a solid knock of 42 runs in the first innings, but missing out on scoring big in the first innings, KL made the most of all chances he got, scoring an unbeaten 120* in 227 balls, with 15 fours by the end of second session. His runs came at a strike rate of 52.86.

This is K L’s sixth century in SENA countries, including three in England, one in Australia and two in South Africa. K L Rahul overtook legendary Rahul Dravid (2) to register his third century in England as an opener, the most by an Indian in the country as an opener.

This is his fourth century as an opener against England, tying with Sunil Gavaskar and Rohit Sharma (4 each). This is KL’s fifth century as an opener in SENA conditions for India, and he is four away from breaking the record of Gavaskar (nine centuries).

He has levelled with Mohammed Azharuddin and Rishabh Pant (six centuries each) to have the joint fourth-most centuries by an Indian in SENA conditions. The record holder here is legendary Sachin Tendulkar (17), followed by Virat Kohli (12) and Dravid (10).

K L Rahul has a solid record in England, with 776 runs in 10 matches and 20 innings at an average of 40.84, with three centuries and a fifty. His best score is 149. (ANI)