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Ajinkya Rahane: Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and others laud Rahane for scoring 12th Test century at the MCG

Dixit Bhargav
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Ajinkya Rahane: Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and others laud Rahane for scoring 12th Test century at the MCG

Ajinkya Rahane: The Indian captain’s stellar innings has handed his team a significant advantage at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

During the second day of the second Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia in Melbourne, India captain Ajinkya Rahane stood tall on his potential to register his 12th Test century in circumstances which can turn thing around for the Indian team.

Rahane, whose last Test century had come more than a year ago against South Africa at home, had scored his last Test century in a SENA country at the same venue but six years ago.

Rahane, who promoted himself at No. 4 in the absence of Virat Kohli, batted in a daunting situation as India lost Shubman Gill (45) and Cheteshwar Pujara (17) in quick succession.

Having steadied the innings alongside Hanuma Vihari (21), Rahane gave impressions of looking solid and determined. Been amidst questions of his place in the side for the last two hours or so, the right-hand batsman appeared to not give away his start, at lease this time.

Rahane, who completed his half-century in the 62nd over, made it a point to keep one end intact despite India losing Vihari and Rishabh Pant (29).

In an innings which rarely saw Rahane taking any unwanted risk or becoming a victim to the short ball, the 32-year old player played deliveries according to their merit.

It was on the fourth delivery of the 88th over that Rahane hit a boundary off Australia vice-captain Pat Cummins to complete his half-century.

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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