Ajinkya Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane is the Indian opener in the ODI and T20 teams if required. Currently, he is playing for Chennai Super Kings in IPL, before that he was playing for Rajasthan Royals.

He made his first grade debut in the 2007-2008 season and played for Mumbai there. He scored over 1000 points in his first 5 seasons. He made his T20 international debut in August 2011 against England.

Due to Shikhar Dhawan’s finger injury, he was allowed to make his test debut in March 2013. His first century against New Zealand

Birth and Early life of Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane was born on June 6, 1988 in Ashwi KD village of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. He started playing at the age of seven, he went to a small training center because his parents could not afford a better one. Former batsman Pravin Amre taught him professional cricket at the age of 17. He attended SV Joshi High School for his secondary education.

His Personal life

Ajinkya Rahane’s father is Madukar Baburao Rahane and his mother Sujata Rahane is married. He has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Rahane married Radhika Dhopavkar in 2014.

Domestic Carrer of Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane, who started training with former India all-rounder Pravin Amre at the age of 17, scored a double century during India’s U-19 tour to New Zealand in early 2007. He helped in the selection of Mohammad Nissar Trophy in Pakistan where he scored 143 in it.

First class against Karachi Urban in September 2007. Over 2007-08, he was 172 years old against the lion of England and make the Ranjo Trophy of Rjjan and help over these subjects in 1089 points. It was 120 years for the two-year periods of visual periods, with the first 265 of the 265 classes of 265 classes in 2009-2010.

His 152 runs against Rajasthan in the 2011 Irani Trophy match helped in his selection for the Indian Test team. In the same year, a double century in Australia’s emerging cricket tournament earned him a place in India’s ODI squad for the 2011 Tour of England.

His International Carrer

Ajinkya Rahane made his international debut for India with a half-century in a T20 against England on August 31, 2011, followed by his ODI debut on September 3, 2011 against England in the NatWest Series. However, despite a strong start, he has fallen flat in the latest ODI and T20 series against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and England.
He was named in the test squad against West Indies in November 2011, but due to poor performance in limited-time matches he had to wait 16 months before his debut.
During that time, he saw seven of his teammates make their Test debuts. He finally got his Test cap against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on March 22, 2013, thanks to an injured Shikhar Dhawan and an ill Gautam Gambhir. Despite his success in the game, he was included in the squad for India’s tour of South Africa, where he finished as the third-best run-scorer for India, including 96 from 157 balls.
On 15 February 2014, when India won 156-5 in New Zealand, Rahane brought the team to a good score with his first Test hundred, but Brendon McCullum’s triple century won the match.
Rahane replaced Rohit Sharma on India’s tour of England in 2014 and again saved his side from falling to 140-6 with another century in the second Test match at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
In ODIs, after he managed to score his second fifty in the 2013-14 Asia Cup, he struggled in the middle order and despite scoring two centuries at the top order, he lost to Rohit.
He was fit for the T20 International series and was later dropped against the Bangladesh series but was named captain of the second-tier team for the Zimbabwe ODI series, which India won 3-0. He continues Attention to the test on four games, including one hundred and fifty years, and the border-gavaska 2014-15 Trophy and Australia.
During Sri Lanka Indian Touns TOUR in 2015, he won the second pair in the first century to reach the second and the ICC players. He set another record in the 4th Test of the 2015 Freedom Series against South Africa when he scored hundreds in both innings of the match on a tough pitch where many batsmen were struggling.
He remained in good form throughout and improved his rank in the ICC Test Batters list to 8th on August 16, 2016. When skipper Virat Kohli was injured in March 2017, he led the team as India’s 33rd Test captain and won the low-scoring match by two wickets.
Despite a century in Sri Lanka in August 2017, he scored just 17 in 5 innings in the return series and was dropped in the first two Tests against South Africa in 2018.