Ajinkya Rahane

About Ajinkya Rahane

Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane (born 6 June 1988) is an Indian international cricketer representing Mumbai in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman who made his international debut in a Twenty20 International against England at Manchester in August 2011 and made his Test debut against Australia in March 2013.

Career Information:

• Test debut-Mar 22, 2013, vs Australia, Feroz Shah Kotla
  
• Last Test-Dec 03, 2015, vs South Africa, Feroz Shah Kotla
  
• ODI debut-Sep 03, 2011, vs England, Riverside Ground
  
• Last ODI-Oct 25, 2015, vs South Africa, Wankhede Stadium
  
• T20 debut-Aug 31, 2011, vs England, Old TraffordLast T20vs Zimbabwe, Jul 19, 2015, Harare Sports Club
  
• IPL debut-vs Deccan Chargers, Apr 27, 2008, Dr DY Patil Sports Academy
  
• Last IPL-vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, May 20, 2015, Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
  

Career success:

• He made his Ranji Trophy debut for his first-class side Mumbai in the 2007/2008 season. His wonderful Ranji season followed an impressive showing for West Zone in the 2007–08 Duleep Trophy, where he scored 172 against an England Lions attack comprising Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Steve Kirby and Liam Plunkett.
  
• Rahane, with 1089 runs in his second Ranji season (2008–09), was a crucial factor in Mumbai's 38th title win. He continued to impress in domestic cricket, scoring three hundreds each in the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons of the Ranji Trophy.His first-class top score of 265 not-out (batting at no. 3 for Mumbai) came against Hyderabad at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal in 2009-10 season.
  
• Rahane, with 1089 runs in his second Ranji season (2008–09), was a crucial factor in Mumbai's 38th title win.
  
• Rahane made his List A debut for Mumbai against Delhi in the Ranji One-day Trophy in March 2007, at Delhi. Scoring 61 runs on debut he was instrumental in 171 runs match winning opening partnership with former Indian opener Wasim Jaffer. Two centuries in the Emerging Players Tournament in Australia brought him a place in the India ODI squad for the tour of England in 2011.
  
• Rahane progressed through the Mumbai ranks and has also been a part of the Indian U-19 team and the India A. Ajinkya Rahane has also turned out for India Blue and India Green in the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy.
  
• In the first Test of 2015 tour of Sri Lanka, Rahane broke the world record for most catches in a Test match with eight.In the second Test at PSS, Colombo, he scored his fourth Test hundred, scoring 126 in India's second winnings, and India went on to win the match. In the process, he reached his career-best ranking of 20th, at the ICC Player Rankings.
  
• Rahane played in the 2015 Freedom Series.In the 4th test match at New Delhi, Rahane made hundreds in both the innings on a pitch where most batsman found it difficult to score on, with this feat he became only the fifth Indian to join the elite club of twin centurions in a single test.Late Vijay Hazare (once), Sunil Gavaskar (thrice), Rahul Dravid (twice) and Virat Kohli (once) are the other Indian batsmen to have achieved the coveted milestone.
  
• Rahane was part of Indian team make it to the final of 2014 World T20. After sitting on the bench for the first 3 matches he got a chance to play against Australia where he scored 19 runs. He gave India a good start in the semi final scoring 32 runs as India went on to win the Match.He also captained India in the 2 Twenty20 International against Zimbabwe, winning the first and losing the second match.He scored 33 and 4 runs in those matches.
  

Ajinkya Rahane Achievements

Test Matches:

• 5th Indian Batsman to score centuries in each innings of a Test
  
• Most number of catches in a Test
  

Awards:

• Honorary awards and appreciations:
  
• CEAT Indian Cricketer of the Year: 2014-15
  
• M A Chidambaram Trophy for best Under-19 cricketer: 2006-07
  

International Awards:

Test cricket:

• Man of the Match awards
  

One-Day International Cricket:

• Man of the Match awards