Suniel Shetty on KL Rahul being trolled after Team India Defeat in WC Finals
KL Rahul has been subjected to brutal trolling after the defeat of India to Australia in the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. The wicketkeeper has been targeted for poor fielding and scoring only 66 runs off 107 deliveries. Following the constant backlash, Suniel Shetty recently defended his son-in-law and revealed that it bothered him a lot.
Asked whether the comments against Rahul hurt him, Shetty said, “Very much, probably more than it hurts him. Probably more than my own trolls hurt me. You know the way the children are. They’d never talk about anything. He says, ‘Let it be, Dad. My bat will talk.’ And it’s spoken. The faith of the people, the faith of the captain, and the selectors in him said it all. So we’ve never said anything. But trust me, it hurts me ten times, a hundred times more than it would Rahul, Athiya, or anybody else. As parents, only Rahul’s parents, and we go through more than even wha the kids would go through.”
While praising his son-in-law, Shetty said, “I am a fan of KL Rahul. I was then, and I am a fan of his cricket even now. He may be my son, but I am his fan. They must have lost the final, but they won every heart in this country. When I meet people, they say, ‘What a team, yaar.’ Earlier, it was only about winning and losing.”