The 38-year-old’s final appearance in India colours came in the second Test against the West Indies in Port of Spain in July 2023 Ajinkya Rahane, one of Indian cricket’s most understated performers and the architect of one of its greatest overseas triumphs, called time on his international career on Thursday (July 30, 2026), bringing the curtains down on a prolonged journey defined more by resilience than fanfare.
Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane is a former Indian professional cricketer and also captained the India national cricket team in all three formats. He formerly played for and captained Mumbai in domestic cricket. A top-order batter for Mumbai, Rahane scored over 1000 runs in his second Ranji season, helping the side secure their 38th title win. Ajinkya Rahane was born to middle-class parents, Rahane went on to become India’s most accomplished batsman overseas. He played 85 Test matches, 90 ODIs and 20 T20Is. The right-handed batter scored 5,077 runs in Tests at 38.46 with 12 centuries and 26 fifties. Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane (born 6 June 1988) is a former Indian professional cricketer and also captained the India national cricket team in all three formats. In an emotional video posted on his social media, the 38-year-old veteran cricketer shared that the “timing is right” to step away from the international stage. Rahane announces retirement from international cricket and all formats. his 12-year international career with 8414 runs and 15 centuries he might not turn heads like many of his glitzier batting colleagues, Ajinkya Rahane has been a dependable middle-order batter for India, particularly overseas, and will always be remembered for leading the side to a spectacular Test series win in Australia in 2020-21.
A top-order batter for Mumbai, Rahane scored over 1000 runs in his second Ranji season, helping the side secure their 38th title win. He made his Test debut in 2013, after months of travelling with the squad, and then in his third match, he scored 51 not out and 96 in Durban. His first Test century followed soon, in a draw in Wellington in February 2014. Five months later, he was in the vanguard for India’s first win at Lord’s in nearly three decades, setting the game up with a solid 103 in the first innings. He followed it up with his maiden ODI century, at Edgbaston, as India wrapped up the ODI series 3-1.
Rahane’s impressive form continued, with hundreds in Melbourne and Colombo, and then two against South Africa in the 2015-16 Delhi Test, in a series where no one else scored a century. His partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara against Australia in the 2017 Bengaluru Test helped India level the series, which they went on to win two Tests later under Rahane’s captaincy.
Early in 2018, he produced a match-turning second-innings knock on a tough Johannesburg pitch, after having been dropped for the first two matches of the series, but he was no longer looking like the dominating Test batter he had previously been.
Even so, his most significant Test innings was yet to come. When India were bowled out for 36 in Adelaide in December 2020, he took charge of an under-pressure team for the rest of the series (regular captain Virat Kohli left the tour for the birth of his child). In the next Test, in Melbourne, Rahane produced a masterclass hundred that set the tone for India’s hard-fought series win.
He was dropped again in 2022, but made a comeback in the 2023 World Test Championship final, where he top-scored for India, but they lost the title to Australia.
Although known for his orthodox batting, Rahane has had success as a T20 batter as well. He scored over 500 runs in two IPL seasons for Rajasthan Royals, has two hundreds in the tournament, led Mumbai to the Syed Mushtaq Ali title in 2022-23, and astonished everyone with a belligerent 61 off 27 balls for Chennai Super Kings against Mumbai Indians in the 2023 IPL.
Ajinkya Rahane IPL Factfile
– Ajinkya Rahane has been part of the IPL since the first season in 2008, although he did not get a game in 2010. He featured for Mumbai Indians in the first two seasons but earned limited opportunities.
– From 2011 to 2015, Rahane was with Rajasthan Royals, for whom he scored one century and 15 half-centuries in that period. His best seasons with the bat came with RR in 2012 and 2015, amassing 560 and 540 runs respectively.
– In 2016 and 2017, Rahane represented Rising Pune Supergiants while RR were banned. The 2016 season was his most consistent with six half-centuries in 14 games and he also captained once when Steven Smith was ill.
– Traded to Delhi Capitals ahead of IPL 2020, Rahane had a three-year lean streak with the bat. In his first stint with Kolkata Knight Riders in 2022, Rahane averaged only 19 in seven games. Across those three seasons, Rahane’s strike-rate was 105.60, 100 and 103.90 respectively.
– Rahane got a boost to his IPL career in IPL 2023 when, for Chennai Super Kings (his sixth IPL franchise), he developed as a pinch-hitting enforcer as the team lifted the trophy. It was also Rahane’s first IPL title. His strike-rate jumped to 172.48 that season, enjoying a consistent run in a playing XI for the first time since 2019. He could not repeat those highs in 2024, with his strike-rate dropping 123.46.
– Bought by KKR again for INR 1.5 crore for a second stint ahead of IPL 2025, Rahane was made the team’s captain following the departure of Shreyas Iyer. He hit three fifties, averaged more than 35 and had a strike-rate of almost 148, but the team finished eighth. Rahane was retained as KKR captain for IPL 2026 too.
India Men’s Cricket Team History
India played their first Test match, against England at Lord’s, in 1932, but it took over 70 years for them to truly come into their own as a force in cricket: they developed into one of the game’s powerhouses under Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and especially Virat Kohli, in the second decade of the 21st century.
Sunil Gavaskar, perhaps India’s first world-beating batter, who was the first to the 10,000-run milestone in Tests, came along in the early 1970s. Kapil Dev, an allrounder who ranked with the world’s best, and was India’s finest since spinner-batter Vinoo Mankad in the 1940s, broke through later that decade.
Fan following for the sport in the country surged in the years following their fairy-tale first ODI World Cup win, in 1983, and by the late 1990s, India was the world’s biggest cricket market: the money from the sale of TV rights to grab the attention of its hundreds of millions of fans had begun in large part to call the shots in the game.
The rise of Sachin Tendulkar, a world-record-setting superstar batter like none in the game before him, helped underline the country’s growing stature in cricket. Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, and a little later Virender Sehwag, were the lynchpins of a golden age of Indian batting in the 2000s. In the 1990s it was their spinners – India’s greatest match-winner, Anil Kumble, and a support cast – who gave them home advantage. In the second half of the 2010s and after, India also produced excellent fast bowlers (Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and others) to become one of the most formidable teams in Test cricket, home and away. In the middle of the next decade, though, their home reputation took a major dent when they were whitewashed at home by New Zealand and South Africa in the space of little over a year. In white-ball cricket, after a minor purple patch in the 1980s, they next had a good run when they secured ICC tournament wins in 2007, 2011 and 2013. There was another ten-year wait till they next got their hands on ICC silverware – the T20 World Cup in 2024, which they followed up with the 2025 Champions Trophy title and the T20 World Cup again the following year.
The most significant development in Indian cricket since the 1980s has probably been the birth and success of the Indian Premier League, the most lucrative and most competitive T20 league in the world, which kicked off in 2008. One of the highlights of Rahane’s career was leading India to a historic 2-1 test series in australia in the summer of 2020-21, especially after India had been bowled out for 36 in the first Test in Adelaide.
Kolkata Knight Riders history
Under Sourav Ganguly and then Brendon McCullum, KKR’s first three years were forgettable. They had the likes of Ricky Ponting, Chris Gayle and (briefly) Shoaib Akhtar in their ranks, alongside promising young Indians like Ishant Sharma, but the highest they finished in the first three seasons was sixth.
In 2011, KKR made their first playoffs under Gautam Gambhir. Yusuf Pathan became a key member of the side, along with Jacques Kallis. In 2012, KKR won their first title, thanks in part to new signings Sunil Narine and Robin Uthappa. They won the title in 2014 again – the first season with Andre Russell in their ranks. The next three years were full of promise but failed to earn KKR another title, and Gambhir was not retained ahead of the 2018 auction.
In Dinesh Karthik’s debut season as captain, 2018, KKR finished third. Midway through the 2020 IPL, Karthik stepped down, handing the reins to Eoin Morgan, who took the side to their third final in 2021. But he went unsold the next year and was replaced as captain by Shreyas Iyer, who took them to their third title win in 2024.
Kolkata Knight Riders highs
Their first win, in 2012, was a landmark because of how poorly the team had fared in the first four seasons. The win in 2014, when they won chasing 200, against Kings XI Punjab, cemented that year’s squad as legends forever. But their 2024 victory was their most emphatic – they lost only three matches and bowled out their opponents six times, the most by a team in a single edition of the IPL.
Kolkata Knight Riders lows
The dream of a fairy tale under Ganguly did not come true, and there was conflict between him and coach John Buchanan, whose multiple-captains strategy was criticised, especially after the team’s fortunes sank further. The omission of Ganguly ahead of 2011 threatened to ruin Kolkata’s love for KKR, and the ruckus over the Fake IPL player (an anonymous blogger who appeared to have inside information) in the early years made them the butt of jokes as well.
Kolkata Knight Riders season by season
2026 – seventh place
M14 W6 W% 42.8
Although they were in the hunt for a spot in the playoffs till the last day of the league stages, KKR had a middling season and their fate lay in the hands of other team results. Their first win came in only their seventh game, and even though they won their next three, they had left too much to do towards the tail-end.
2025 – eighth
M14 W5 W% 35.7
The defending champions, now under a new captain, Ajinkya Rahane, struggled this season, with their middle order, key to their title win in 2024, failing to kick off. Two no-results did not help, and though they had two bowling aces in Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine was not the force he was in 2024, and KKR had no batters in the top 15 run-scorers, The lowest point was their inability to chase 112 against Punjab Kings.
2024 – champions
M15 W11 W% 73.3
Gambhir returned to the franchise as mentor, and KKR went on to have one of the most dominant IPL campaigns ever, equalling Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals from 2008 for the fewest losses across a season (three). Having topped the league table, they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first Qualifier by eight wickets with 38 balls to spare and again in the final by eight wickets, this time with 57 balls remaining. Sunil Narine won his third Player-of-the-Tournament award, scoring 488 runs and taking 17 wickets at an economy of 6.69. Mystery spinner Varun Charkavarthy was their leading wicket-taker for the second successive season, with 21 wickets.
2023 – seventh
M14 W6 W% 42.8
Nitish Rana stepped in to replace the injured Shreyas Iyer as KKR’s captain, and he propped up the batting along with Rinku Singh, who became the side’s rescuer-in-chief, most memorably hitting five sixes when KKR needed 29 to beat Gujarat Titans. Varun Chakravarthy was their leading bowler, taking 20 wickets.
2022 – seventh
M14 W6 W% 42.8
Russell topped the side’s batting and bowling charts with 335 runs and 17 wickets. Umesh Yadav impressed with his powerplay dominance, Rinku Singh showed spunk, and Pat Cummins produced a 14-ball fifty, the joint fastest in IPL history, but it was KKR’s worst position in eight years.
2021 – runners up
M17 W9 W% 52.9
Their India leg was poor, but in the UAE they won seven of nine games to reach the final, despite missing Russell for most of that second leg. Though the senior batters didn’t quite shine, lesser-known players stood up. Narine regained his bowling mojo after a forgettable 2020. Venkatesh Iyer, the hard-hitting batter and seam bowler, was the find of KKR’s season.
2020 – fifth
M14 W7 W% 50
Their position on the points table flattered KKR in a tight season where they failed to build any momentum. Narine and Russell were absent for large periods, and under new captain Morgan – who took over after seven games – they lost more matches than they won. They discovered a new gem in mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy, though.
2019 – fifth
M14 W6 W% 42.8
They won four of their first five games and then lost six on the trot. When KKR won, it was often thanks to Russell’s heroics with the bat, which earned him four Player-of-the-Match awards. Shubman Gill’s promotion from finisher to opener worked well, and had they won their final game, against Mumbai Indians, KKR would have qualified for the playoffs.
2018 – third
M16 W9 W% 56.2
KKR batted aggressively, using the power of Lynn, Narine and Russell to post big totals that would overcome the inexperience of their fast bowlers. Despite batting lower down the order, Karthik was the team’s highest scorer, with 498 runs. KKR beat Rajasthan Royals in the eliminator, but fell one step short of the final, losing to runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad.
2017 – third
M16 W9 W% 56.2
Lynn’s and Narine’s big-hitting at the top, followed by accumulative performances from Gambhir and Uthappa, put KKR on course for a third title when they won seven of their first nine games, but their performances tapered away and they were knocked out in the qualifier, after being bowled out for 107. (Russell was not available – he was serving a ban.)
2016 – fourth
M15 W8 W% 53.3
Russell’s domination continued: he earned three Player-of-the-Match awards, and Pathan two as KKR qualified for the playoffs. There they were knocked out in the eliminator by Sunrisers. It was Kallis’ first of three seasons as coach.
2015 – fifth
M13 W7 W% 53.8
Russell struck three fifties but the season belonged to KKR’s bowlers. Morne Morkel handed KKR a rare win over Mumbai, Umesh Yadav played match-winner twice, and Piyush Chawla’s four-wicket haul dismantled Delhi Daredevils. KKR had to win one of their last two league games to qualify, but they faltered in both, losing to Mumbai and Royals.
2014 – champions
M16 W11 W% 68.7
Having lost five of their first seven games, KKR seemed destined for an early exit, but a streak of nine wins in a row handed them a second title. Gambhir and Uthappa’s partnerships set KKR up for breezy finishes, which Pathan usually provided. Kuldeep Yadav and Kallis put in regular contributions too. In the final, Manish Pandey made 94 in a chase of 200.
2013 – seventh
M16 W6 W% 37.5
A forgettable season, sandwiched between two superb years. Narine topped the KKR bowling charts this year and the next, and Gambhir was flawless with the bat, but they couldn’t extract contributions from the others. Kallis, although good, was not consistent, and KKR lost ten of their 16 league games.
2012 – champions
M17 W12 W% 70.5
KKR’s first title came under Gambhir and new coach Trevor Bayliss, who replaced Dav Whatmore. Two losses to begin, then two wins, a loss, six straight victories, two losses, and finally two wins, meant they finished the league stage second. In the final, Manvinder Bisla’s 89 helped KKR chase a tricky 191.
2011 – fourth
M15 W8 W% 53.3
A new-look KKR set out to change the team’s fortunes, and they qualified for the playoffs for the first time. KKR’s faith in the Indian talent they had bought, along with new captain Gambhir, was rewarded, with spinner Abdulla, fast bowler L Balaji, and middle-order batters Pathan and Manoj Tiwary producing match-winning performances.
2010 – sixth
M14 W7 W% 50
Ganguly was retained as captain despite two poor seasons, and he scored 493 runs, but the rest of the team did not hit the heights. They lost a heap of games in the first half of the tournament and though they tied on 14 points with the teams in third, fourth and fifth places, their poor net run rate cost them a playoff spot.
2009 – eighth
M13 W3 W% 23.1
A Super-Over loss in their third game began a string of eight defeats in a row that broke KKR’s back. After 12 games they had won just one solitary match, and if it wasn’t for their two wins in their last two games, they might have had the worst season of any team in the history of franchise cricket.
2008 – sixth
M13 W6 W% 46.1
McCullum’s 158 not out in the tournament opener made it seem like KKR were the team to beat in the new league, but four straight losses put that start to waste and, despite two Player-of-the-Match performances from Ganguly and a demolition of Delhi Daredevils by Shoaib, the team finished with three losses at the end of the season.
Rahane led KKR in the last two seasons but finished with unimpressive returns as they finished seventh in 2026 and eighth in 2025.
Rahane finishes his international career of 12 years that spanned from 2011 to 2023 with 5077 runs at 38.46 with 12 centuries, 2962 ODI runs at 35.26 with three hundreds and 375 T20I runs at 20.83 with a strike rate of 113.29. He led India in six Tests, of which they won four and drew two.
“I’ve always relied on timing in my batting, and I’ve always understood its importance,” Rahane said in a video he posted on Instagram. “Today, I feel the timing is right for me to move on and announce my retirement from international cricket and all formats. From those early days traveling from Dombivli as a young boy just to practice, I gave this game everything I had.
“Every single day, every innings, every opportunity I got to bat, the dream was always to wear the India cap. I lived by one simple rule: always put my country and my team ahead of myself. I played this game with complete honesty, and I have always believed that if your intent is right, the game will always take care of you.
“Since the time I made my debut as a first-class cricketer, Indian cricket has grown tremendously, and I feel so proud to have been a part of it over the last 20 years. While my chapter as an Indian cricketer comes to an end, my journey with the game doesn’t. I look forward to helping the next generation, sharing the values the sport has taught me, and giving back to the game that has given me everything.”
Rahane was a reliable middle-order batter for India, especially away from home. While he also played a lot more Tests away than home – 51 compared to 32 – he was also more prolific on foreign soil where he averaged 39.43 compared to 35.73 at home. He scored eight of his 12 Test centuries away from home, the first of which was in Wellington in February 2014. That it came less than two months after his knocks of 51* and 96 in Durban in the Boxing Day Test and was followed by a century at Lord’s in July 2014 was proof that he was here to stay in the Test middle order.
Rahane had made his ODI debut a year and a half before his Test debut but his first ODI century came right after the Lord’s hundred, when he scored 106 at Edgbaston as part of a 3-1 series win in the same summer of 2014.
Rahane conquered more overseas grounds, scoring Test centuries in Melbourne, Kingston and Colombo, while also smashing twin centuries in the Delhi Test against South Africa in December 2015.
But he started getting dropped around 2017-18 as the big scores started to dry up. His most impactful series was in 2020-21 in Australia, when India were bundled for 36 in Adelaide, regular captain Virat Kohli flew back home for the birth of his first child and the reigns were with an under-pressure Rahane. He responded with a glorious century at the MCG that set the tone for India’s fightback to clinch the series in dramatic fashion at the Gabba. Rahane’s last big game was the WTC final in 2023 against Australia at The Oval, where he top-scored for India but he played only two Tests after that.
“To the BCCI, the MCA, my team-mates, my coaches, every IPL franchise, to Radhika, my entire family, my friends, and everyone who stood by me, thank you. And a very special thank you to all the cricket fans who supported me through every highs and lows,” he said while holding back tears.
Career Summary & Statistics
Rahane made his international debut in 2011 and went on to represent Team India in 195 international matches across more than a decade. He last wore the Indian jersey in July 2023 during a Test match against the West Indies. Ajinkya Rahane retires from international cricket: Net worth, investments and brand deals
Following his retirement from international cricket, Ajinkya Rahane leaves behind not only a distinguished playing career but also a portfolio built through IPL earnings, startup investments, premium real estate and endorsement partnerships. Ajinkya Rahane has brought the curtain down on his international cricket career, announcing his retirement from all formats for India after representing the country in 195 matches across Tests, ODIs and T20Is.
The 38-year-old, who last played for India during the 2023 Test series against the West Indies, said the “timing is right” to move on, ending an international career that included more than 5,000 Test runs, 12 centuries and the memorable leadership of India’s historic 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy triumph in Australia.
While Rahane’s on-field achievements have defined his legacy, the veteran batter has also built a sizeable financial portfolio through IPL earnings, brand endorsements and investments.
Ajinkya Rahane’s net worth
While the former India batter has never publicly disclosed his wealth, reports attribute his earnings to BCCI contracts during his international career, IPL salaries, endorsement deals and investments.
Even after falling out of India’s plans, Rahane continued to feature in domestic cricket and the IPL. Over the course of his IPL career, he is estimated to have earned more than ₹54 crore in player salaries alone.
Investments and business interests
Beyond cricket, Rahane has backed several startups and sports-focused ventures.
The former India vice-captain has invested in MeraKisan, an agritech platform that supplies agricultural machinery and products to farmers through retail and digital channels. He has also invested in Hudle, a sports-tech platform that allows users to discover and book sports venues.
Rahane has additionally been associated with You Need Contents, the Indian arm of You Need Character, and became an investor and curator for the children’s cricket-themed animated series Cricket Pang.
Real estate portfolio
Rahane’s most prominent real estate asset is his sea-facing luxury apartment in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
Recent media reports value the property at over ₹20 crore. The apartment features European-inspired interiors, Italian marble flooring, a trophy wall displaying his cricketing milestones, spacious balconies and premium residential amenities.
Luxury car collection
Rahane owns a collection of premium luxury vehicles, headlined by a Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600, which he purchased in 2024 and is reportedly worth nearly ₹3 crore.
His garage also includes an Audi Q5, BMW 6 Series GT, Range Rover, and Volvo SUV, according to multiple media reports.
Brand endorsements
Throughout his career, Rahane has endorsed brands across automobiles, sports, fintech and consumer products. Media reports have linked him with brands including Adidas, CEAT, Boost, Hero MotoCorp, My11Circle, Games24x7, NeoGrowth, Hudle, ELSA Corp, IDFC FIRST Bank and Fanoz, among others. Reports suggest he commands around ₹1 crore per endorsement deal, although the figure has not been officially confirmed.
Legacy and Captaincy Triumph
- The Australian Miracle: The absolute pinnacle of Rahane’s international career was leading a severely depleted, injury-plagued Indian squad to a historic 2–1 Border-Gavaskar Trophy win in Australia during the 2020–21 season.
- Flawless Captaincy Record: Taking over the reins after Virat Kohli returned home following India’s infamous “36 all out” collapse in Adelaide, Rahane hit a masterful century in Melbourne and eventually led India to the legendary victory at the Gabba. He finishes his career completely undefeated as a Test captain, winning four and drawing two of the six matches he led.
- Overseas Specialist: Rahane earned deep respect globally as India’s premier crisis-man on fast, bouncing overseas wickets, securing famous Test centuries at elite venues like Lord’s, Melbourne, and Wellington.
Ajinkya Rahane, Veteran Of 85 Tests And 90 ODIs, Announces Shock Retirement Ajinkya Rahane, a veteran of 85 Tests, 90 ODIs and 20 T20Is for India, announces his retirement from cricket. While his days as an international cricketer had come to an end, the fact that he quit IPL and domestic cricket too took the cricket world by surprise.
Ajinkya Rahane officially announced his shock retirement from all forms of cricket on Thursday, drawing the curtain on a distinguished career that spanned over a decade for Team India. Known for his solid technique, calm demeanour, and exceptional record in tough overseas conditions, Rahane scored over 8,000 international runs across formats, featuring in 85 Tests, 90 ODIs, and 20 T20Is. His defining moment as a leader arrived during the famous 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, where he captained an injury-depleted Indian side to a historical 2-1 Test series victory in Australia following a century at Melbourne. Rahane last played for India in 2023 when he was called up to the Test team for the tour of the West Indies. His last appearance for the country in the ODI format came in 2018, when he played against England. His T20I career for the national team was relatively short; it was in 2016 when Rahane last wore the India shirt in the shortest format, against the West Indies.
“Cap 278 signing off. Thank you for all the love and support over the years. Forever grateful,” Rahane captioned a video he shared on Instagram.
“The reality of life is that everything has a beginning, and everything has an end. When that time comes, you simply have to respect it and move forward. I always relied on timing in my batting, and I’ve always understood its important,” Rahane said in the video
“Today, I feel the timing is right for me to move on and announce my requirement from international cricket, and all formats,” he added in the clip that was captioned ‘Cap number 278, signing off’.” When it comes to T20 cricket, Rahane continued to play in the Indian Premier League. In fact, he was the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team over the last couple of seasons, though he could not help the team qualify for the playoffs. He even remained a regular for Mumbai in domestic red-ball cricket.
Mumbai Cricket Association president Ajinkya Naik paid a glowing tribute to the veteran batter, saying: “Ajinkya Rahane’s retirement marks the end of a remarkable chapter in Indian cricket. His dedication, composure under pressure, and commitment to excellence have made him one of Mumbai cricket’s finest ambassadors. His legacy will inspire generations to come.”
Beyond his batting, his flawless slip catching made him a vital pillar of India’s Test core, leaving behind a legacy defined by patience, leadership under pressure, and unfailing selflessness. Farewell Statement
In his tearful parting note, Rahane reflected on his journey:
“While my chapter as an Indian cricketer comes to an end, my journey with the game doesn’t. I look forward to helping the next generation… and giving back to the game that has given me everything. …there is one place where I was never defeated, and that was in your hearts.” ‘Cap 278 signing off’: Ajinkya Rahane retires from international cricket A top-order batsman, Ajinkya Rahane is a batsman in the Indian cricket team from Mumbai. He is a right-handed batsman and the vice captain of the national team. Rahane played his first ever first-class debut in the 2007–08 season and managed to score 1089 runs in his second Ranji season.
He played his first international game in a Twenty20 International match against England in 2011. Rahane scored his first Test century against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve. In addition to this, he has been the captain of the team in the fourth Test against Australia in 2017.
