Ajinkya Rahane
Ajinkya Rahane has recently been riding a sympathy wave, especially following his self-liberating IPL stint. A ‘team man’ who has endured terrible stab wounds in silence. Rahane may be considered to have the personality of a mumbler in a noisy market, but when he is in full batting flow, he can compete with even Rohit Sharma in terms of aesthetics and wow factor. His raw skill suggested that his Test career should have placed him with Virat Kohli, Joe Root, and Kane Williamson, and his batsmanship can make one scream in admiration and ecstasy. However, that is not how sports work.
That mumbler aspect has repeatedly derailed his career. Rahane was one of the most affected when Kohli was injecting insecurity as a performance-enhancing medication in his early captaincy, frequently shifting his players for horses-for-courses theory, to convey messages, or simply to pull his team forward in his way.
Few understood why he was dropped in South Africa during the 2018 series, and even fewer knew the impact it had on him. He murmured on and on, but he couldn’t really assert himself. Cheteshwar Pujara has been similarly, if not more, pushed to the brink by strike-rate conversations, but he is a different breed. Few people have his mental fortitude.
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Yet, if Rahane had some room, he would explode through like a creative midfielder suddenly discovering he can score rather than pass. The mumbler, like the captain, was now viewed as calm, collected, and icy steel. Even when he wasn’t in the starting XI, the word from the Delhi Capitals was one of awe and respect for how he put the team’s morale ahead of his own and would blend into the background as one of the boys. There is no doubt about his intentions or values.
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