RR skipper Ajinkya Rahane takes blame for loss against KKR

IMAGE: Dinesh Karthik, centre, celebrates with Nitish Rana, left, and Robin Uthappa after Ajinkya Rahane's dismissal. Photograph: BCCI The Rajasthan Royals started off slowly, scoring just 9 runs from the first 3 overs after they were put into bat by the Kolkata Knight Riders in Jaipur on Wednesday, April 18.   Captain Ajinkya Rahane broke the shackles as he hit KKR's premier spinner Sunil Narine for consecutive boundaries in the fourth over and then smashed pacer Shivam Mavi for a six in ...

IMAGE: KKR's players celebrate the wicket of Ajinkya Rahane. Photograph: BCCI Kolkata Knight Riders delivered a professional performance to beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in Jaipur on Wednesday, putting their Indian Premier League campaign back on track with back to back victories. Scorecard The highly-rated KKR spinners restricted Royals to 160 for eight before opener Robin Uthappa rallied the visitors after an early wicket, stroking 48 from 36 balls.   KKR were hardly troubled ...

Rajasthan Royals rode their bowlers' good show coupled with skipper Ajinkya Rahane's 45 to beat Delhi Daredevils by 10 runs via Duckworth-Lewis Method in a heavily rain-truncated Indian Premier League (IPL) clash here at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on ...

bility ahead of the 11th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Rahane, 29, replaced Steve Smith as captain of the Royals after the Australia batsman was banned from competing in the IPL due to his involvement in a ball-tampering scandal. Warne said he is ...

Steve Smith may have been disgraced for his role in the ball tampering scandal in South Africa but newly appointed Rajasthan Royals skipper Ajinkya Rahane said that he still respects him as a world-class batsman. Twitter Jaipur: Steve Smith may have been ...

The five-Test series against England will start in August and skipper Virat Kohli considers it as his biggest Test. Kohli will be playing for Surrey in the month of June after the IPL. The post CoA chief Vinod Rai says Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and ...

Love or hate, everything is a question of time. The Kohli-Rahane saga will vouch for that. Rahane and Kohli shared a third-wicket 189-run stand on Thursday. (PTI) Love or hate, everything is a question of time. No long ago, Ajinkya Rahane appeared an outcast ...

India Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane and his Mumbai teammate Suryakumar Yadav went under the hammer for Rs 7 lakh each as they were picked in the auction today by Mumbai North and Mumbai North East teams as their icon players respectively for the upcoming ...

India, for the first time, managed to take all the 60 wickets in the three Tests, posing problems to the South Africans. Rahane says if his team can replicate the performance in England, India will stand a good chance of turning things around in difficult ...