India batting stalwart Ajinkya Rahane announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on Thursday. We take a look back at some of his best contributions in the red-ball format for India.<\/p>\n
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147 vs Australia (Melbourne, 2014)<\/p>\n
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Rahane walked in with India under pressure and launched a stunning counter-attack against Australia’s pace attack.<\/p>\n
He scored 147 off just 171 balls, taking on the likes of Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood and Ryan Harris on a lively MCG pitch.<\/p>\n
His 262-run partnership with Virat Kohli completely changed the course of the innings.<\/p>\n
Rahane followed it up with another 48 in the second innings that helped India to a draw.<\/p>\n
The knock is widely regarded as one of the finest overseas Test centuries by an Indian batter.<\/p>\n
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188 vs New Zealand (Indore, 2016)<\/p>\n
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Rahane registered his highest Test score of 188 after India had slipped to 100\/3.<\/p>\n
He shared a then-record 365-run fourth-wicket partnership with Virat Kohli, completely taking the game away from New Zealand.<\/p>\n
His innings combined patience with fluent strokeplay as he batted for over six hours. His 381-ball knock consisted of 18 fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n
India went on to post 557\/5 declared and wrapped up a convincing victory to seal the series.<\/p>\n
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103 vs England (Lord’s, 2014)<\/p>\n
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Rahane’s resilient century came at a time when India were struggling at 145\/7 in the first innings.<\/p>\n
He produced a composed century in testing English conditions to guide India to a competitive total of 295.<\/p>\n
The innings earned him a coveted place on the Lord’s Honours Board.<\/p>\n
It proved to be the difference as India went on to record their famous victory at the Home of Cricket.<\/p>\n
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112 vs Australia (Melbourne, 2020)<\/p>\n
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Leading India after the Adelaide 36 all out and Virat Kohli not being part of the action, Rahane delivered a captain’s innings of the highest quality.<\/p>\n
His patient 112 guided India to a crucial 131-run first-innings lead on a challenging MCG surface. The century shifted the momentum of the series and levelled the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.<\/p>\n
It remains one of the defining knocks in one of India’s finest ever overseas Test triumphs.<\/p>\n
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89 vs Australia, WTC Final (The Oval, 2023)<\/p>\n
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The right-hand batter returned to the team and played one of his most fluent knocks at The Oval on the grand ICC World Test Championship 2023 Final.<\/p>\n
Rahane’s resilience in this game was closed out on 89, after a blinder from Cameron Green.<\/p>\n
India eventually lost the mace to Australia but Rahane’s first-innings brilliance against a fine bowling lineup of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon comes up there as one of his most vital contributions in whites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India batting stalwart Ajinkya Rahane announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on Thursday. We take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-833226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}