The vice-captain of the Indian Test team, Ajinkya Rahane has been struggling to score big of late. It has been a long time since the right-handed batsman played big knocks consistently for the nation in the longest format of the game. Rahane has not scored a century in whites since the Boxing Day Test match 2020 against the Australian cricket team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Speaking of his batting performances in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship series against the England cricket team, Rahane began the series by scoring five runs at the Trent Bridge in Nottingham. After that, in the Lord’s Test match, he got out for one run in the first innings but followed it up with a match-winning half-century in the second innings of the Indian cricket team.
The Indian vice-captain failed to touch 20-run mark in both innings of the previous Test match against England
The Indian cricket team had a 1-0 lead against the England cricket team, heading into the third Test match played at the Headingley Stadium in Leeds. Unfortunately, Ajinkya Rahane could not continue his fine form with the willow after the fifty in the second innings at the Lord’s cricket ground.
Rahane departed to the dressing room after aggregating 18 runs in the first innings of the Indian cricket team at Headingley. In the second innings of the Leeds Test match, the right-handed batsman managed only ten runs.
Ajinkya Rahane recorded his first duck of the Test series against England today
The fourth Test match of the ICC World Test Championship series between the Indian cricket team and the England cricket team is currently happening at the Kennington Oval in London. Rahane scored 14 runs in the first innings, but in the second innings, he got out for a duck when the team had got off to a good start.
Chris Woakes trapped him in front of the stumps on the eighth delivery that he faced in the second innings. Soon after Rahane got out for a duck, a Twitter user pointed out that he had got out for duck in his previous two Tests at this venue as well. Incidentally, he played eight balls for his duck.
In Test
3 times, Rahane Scored Duck in EnglandAt Oval (2014)
At Oval (2018)
At Oval (2021)*All at same venue 👀#INDvENG
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