Ajinkya Rahane

India|Top order Batter
Ajinkya Rahane
INTL CAREER: 2011 - 2023
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Full Name

Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane

Born

June 06, 1988, Ashwi-KD, Maharashtra

Age

35y 287d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

Playing Role

Top order Batter

While he might not turn heads like many of his glitzier batting colleagues, Ajinkya Rahane has been a dependable middle-order batter for India, particularly overseas, and will always be remembered for leading the side to a spectacular Test series win in Australia in 2020-21.

A top-order batter for Mumbai, Rahane scored over 1000 runs in his second Ranji season, helping the side secure their 38th title win. He made his Test debut in 2013, after months of travelling with the squad, and then in his third match, he scored 51 not out and 96 in Durban. His first Test century followed soon, in a draw in Wellington in February 2014. Five months later, he was in the vanguard for India's first win at Lord's in nearly three decades, setting the game up with a solid 103 in the first innings. He followed it up with his maiden ODI century, at Edgbaston, as India wrapped up the ODI series 3-1.

Rahane's impressive form continued, with hundreds in Melbourne and Colombo, and then two against South Africa in the 2015-16 Delhi Test, in a series where no one else scored a century. His partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara against Australia in the 2017 Bengaluru Test helped India level the series, which they went on to win two Tests later under Rahane's captaincy.

Early in 2018, he produced a match-turning second-innings knock on a tough Johannesburg pitch, after having been dropped for the first two matches of the series, but he was no longer looking like the dominating Test batter he had previously been.

Even so, his most significant Test innings was yet to come. When India were bowled out for 36 in Adelaide in December 2020, he took charge of an under-pressure team for the rest of the series (regular captain Virat Kohli left the tour for the birth of his child). In the next Test, in Melbourne, Rahane produced a masterclass hundred that set the tone for India's hard-fought series win.

He was dropped again in 2022, but made a comeback in the 2023 World Test Championship final, where he top-scored for India, but they lost the title to Australia.

Although known for his orthodox batting, Rahane has had success as a T20 batter as well. He scored over 500 runs in two IPL seasons for Rajasthan Royals, has two hundreds in the tournament, led Mumbai to the Syed Mushtaq Ali title in 2022-23, and astonished everyone with a belligerent 61 off 27 balls for Chennai Super Kings against Mumbai Indians in the 2023 IPL.

Ajinkya Rahane Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests8514412507718838.461025649.501226578351020
ODIs90873296211135.26376778.6332429333480
T20Is202023756120.83331113.2901326160
FC1883182913225265*45.762479153.3439571590952000
List A18217714647518739.72--1045--870
T20s249235246141105*29.105050121.602436241341080

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests85------------
ODIs90------------
T20Is20------------
FC1889108750---4.16-000
List A1822424332/362/3614.336.1414.0000
T20s24916511/51/55.005.006.0000
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Recent Matches of Ajinkya Rahane

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Mumbai vs Vidarbha7 & 7310-Mar-2024WankhedeFC
Mumbai vs Tamil Nadu1902-Mar-2024MumbaiFC
Mumbai vs Baroda3 & 023-Feb-2024MumbaiFC
Mumbai vs Assam2216-Feb-2024MumbaiFC
Mumbai vs Chhattisgarh1 & 56*09-Feb-2024RaipurFC

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Photos of Ajinkya Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane delivered when it mattered
Ajinkya Rahane, here with Snehasish Ganguly, was a part of the Cricket Association of Bengal's foundation day celebrations
The wicket of Kirk McKenzie was Mukesh Kumar's first in Test cricket
Ajinkya Rahane's stumps get some serious airtime
R Ashwin picked up seven wickets in the second innings
Mohammed Siraj soaks in the success with his team-mates