Twitterati drooling over KL Rahul’s perfect Dele Alli celebration

Indian cricketer KL Rahul doesn’t just focus on his cricket but is also about style, flair and a lot of swagger. He has celebrated his Test hundreds with dabs when his partners in crime Hardik Pandya or Virat Kohli take a wicket or a catch they do a collective dab celebration. He brought something new on the cricket field after catching Joe Root on day 4 of the 3rd Test. Rahul did a perfect Dele Alli celebration getting it right at one go.

He has emerged as Team India’s most reliable slip fielder. Nothing in Nottingham has popped out of Rahul’s palms. While they tried Shikhar Dhawan in the first Test at Edgbaston, he dropped a few and since the team has trusted KL to do the job. In the first innings, they got three wickets in a row courtesy three brilliant catches by the opener positioned at second slip.

Thus far in the Test match, he has grabbed seven catches. The talk of the town catch was that of the English skipper Root. Jasprit Bumrah who was at the end of his extended spell bowled a short of length delivery outside the off-stump. It was the angle of the ball coming into him that forced Root who was very tentative at the crease to push at it and got the outside edge.

Rahul followed the ball all the way and then got his hands in the right place at the right time to pluck a magnificent catch. He set off celebrating as the wicket was huge in the context of the game. England had already lost both the openers early on the fourth morning to Ishant Sharma and then Bumrah got rid of Root. That’s when Rahul did the Dele Alli celebration.

Here is how Twitterati reacted to his #DeleAlliChallenge

Talk of the Town;)#KLRahul does #DeleAlli celebration#ENGvIND #Nottingham #TrentBridgeTest pic.twitter.com/MZ5L6jZja1

— mariam hussain (@28saleema) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul takes stunner to dismiss Joe Root, and his Dele Alli celebration is the icing on the cake!#DeleAllichallenge@klrahul11 @dele_official @BCCI @englandcricket @England @SpursOfficial pic.twitter.com/zi4hooVwqi

— Harigovind Thoyakkat (@thoyakkatboy) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul did the Dele Alli celebration after taking that catch! *Cringes uncontrollably and dies* #ENGvIND

— Parth Dave (@WordsForSwords) August 21, 2018

WTF!!! KL Rahul is doing Dele Alli celebration 😂😝
Nailed it..!! 😆🤗#ENGvIND #INDvENG

— Abhisheyk Barnwal (@TheAbhisheyk) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul doing Dele Alli celebration

I have seen it all 😂

— Dii Ramgi (@Superman_Dii) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul just did the Dele Alli celebration. I don't like him anymore.

— ASG (@ahadfooty_II) August 21, 2018

Amazing performance by Indian Team in Slips… KL Rahul with two brilliant catches… King Kohli with the passionate leap for 4th wicket… Seems it might be wrapped up before lunch…😉

Btw KL Rahul did the celebration better than Dele Alli…👌🏻😂

— Apurva Tripathi (@aptr1311) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul pops out the @dele_official celebration after taking a catch in the slips! 😂😂

— Paurakh (@paurakh712) August 21, 2018

Lol, KL Rahul did @dele_official 's celebration.😂#ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/INklj1wFnD

— Priyanka 💃 (@The_Priyanka__) August 21, 2018

One more reason to not like KL Rahul, he did a Dele Alli!! 😂 https://t.co/T4N6ahzzUs

— नीले योद्धा(Warriors in blue) (@SirStaphAureus) August 21, 2018

KL Rahul with the Dele Alli celebration AHAHHAHA

— Ishan Welde (@IshanWeldeLFC) August 21, 2018

England lost another wicket, that of Ollie Pope in the very next over after the skipper’s departure but since Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler have managed to stitch together a 100-run partnership and are trying their best to pull the team out of troubles.

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