Rahul Tripathi is one of the fastest rising stars in Indian cricket. The right-handed batsman has been a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Rising Pune Supergiant teams in the IPL. Recently, he turned up for KKR in the first phase of IPL 2021.
As a team, the Kolkata Knight Riders squad has traveled together to various places. However, Rahul Tripathi was not satisfied with the way one of his KKR teammates spent his time on the flight.
In an interview with CricTracker, Rahul Tripathi was asked to name his most boring travel partner. Here’s what Tripathi replied: “Varun Chakravarthy. He keeps watching a lot of YouTube videos when we are on the flight.”
In the same interview, Rahul was asked to pick one team between his former franchise Rising Pune Supergiant and current team Kolkata Knight Riders. Rahul picked Pune, saying that it was his first team. “Both the teams are very special, but I would go for Pune since it was my first team.”
How Kolkata Knight Riders pulled a prank on Rahul Tripathi on April Fools’ Day
April 1 is commonly celebrated as the April Fools’ Day across the world. On that day, the Kolkata Knight Riders informed Rahul Tripathi that he should make an April Fool to Eoin Morgan. However, the original plan was reversed. “This year it happened to me. The media team and everybody told me to make an April Fool to Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill and all those, who were shooting and they reversed it on me,” Rahul explained.
Rahul Tripathi did not get a place in the Indian T20I squad for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka. However, the right-handed batsman will hold the key to Kolkata Knight Riders’ success in the second phase of IPL 2021. It will be exciting to see how Rahul performs for the Kolkata-based franchise.
