KL Rahul made it clear he wants to come back for India’s T20I squad. After a fantastic IPL 2025 with a good strike rate, he now heads to his next challenge, England. With Delhi Capitals out of the playoffs, his time with the IPL ended early. Rahul was the top scorer for the Delhi Capitals with 539 runs in 13 innings with a strike rate of around 150. With that performance, Rahul's retired from T20 cricket. Rahul has performed with the bat consistently, with 520 in IPL 2024, 616 in 2022, 626 in 2021 and 670 in 2020. Also, he once won the Orange Cap. However, credit to Rahul and the coaches that have been there for him since this has been long a concern for more than one cricketing team letting him down with a strike rate that has had a cost of not being included in India's T20I time and time again. This time around he first answered from criticism with a more different approach - with attacking runs as modern day T20 cricket. Once born is the comfort zone Rahul now surely is a fearless batter after the change, this may help him re-join the India T20I setup. His aim is quite obvious to be in India's squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 which is scheduled to be held in India and Sri Lanka early next year. He hasn't played a T20I since 2022 but his current form and revamped game might just get him back into contention. KL Rahul told Nasser Hussain on Sky Sports: “Yes, I want to get back in the T20 team, and the World Cup is in my mind, but for now it's just trying to enjoy how I'm playing right now.” Rahul also discussed the developments in white-ball cricket. About 12 to 15 months ago, he started to observe the game was becoming much faster with teams becoming more successful while hitting more boundaries. He admitted that a batter cannot just survive in today's T20 format. They have to be aggressive, and they have to take risks to be successful. While in this period of development, Rahul was collaborating with his coaches, particularly Abhishek Nayar who guided him to re-think his batting mindset and develop various skillsets. He signed off by saying: “Just sitting and thinking about these things, I've come up with certain things, obviously with the help of coaches that I've worked with. Abhishek Nayar is one of the guys I've worked with in the last 12 months quite a lot. He's come into the Indian team as a batting coach [but has been removed since], so I spent a lot of time with him, and he really helped in helping me change my thinking and helping me work on my game.”