Ajinkya Rahane is one of India’s best batsmen, across all three formats. Rahane was initially treated as a Test match specialist, but he worked hard on his game and enhanced his skills to suit the requirements of all three formats of the game. As of today, Rahane is the vice-captain of India’s Test squad and a crucial member of India’s batting order in limited overs cricket. In this post, Umang Pabari takes a statistical look at Ajinkya Rahane’s international career so far:
Career summary:
| Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | Ducks | 4s | 6s |
| 107 | 123 | 7 | 4076 | 5866 | 147 | 35.13 | 69.48 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 434 | 62 |
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – format wise:
| Format | M | Inn | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| Test | 22 | 40 | 4 | 1619 | 2917 | 147 | 44.97 | 55.50 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 198 | 12 |
| ODI | 67 | 65 | 2 | 2093 | 2629 | 111 | 33.22 | 79.61 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 205 | 24 |
| T20 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 364 | 320 | 61 | 21.41 | 113.75 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 6 |
Ajinkya Rahane has a better average in Test format as compared to ODIs and T20Is.
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – against each country:
| Country | M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 66 | 56 | 56.00 | 84.84 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Australia | 13 | 17 | 2 | 651 | 946 | 147 | 43.40 | 68.81 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 71 | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 7 | 7 | 0 | 266 | 337 | 98 | 38.00 | 78.93 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 3 |
| England | 29 | 34 | 1 | 1079 | 1528 | 106 | 32.69 | 70.61 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 111 | 14 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 28 | 33* | – | 117.85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 8 | 0 | 213 | 336 | 118 | 26.62 | 63.39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 6 | 6 | 0 | 97 | 120 | 42 | 16.16 | 80.83 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 1 |
| South Africa | 14 | 18 | 2 | 841 | 1328 | 127 | 52.56 | 63.32 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 85 | 17 |
| Sri Lanka | 15 | 18 | 1 | 464 | 699 | 126 | 27.29 | 66.38 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 3 |
| U.A.E. | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| West Indies | 6 | 6 | 0 | 158 | 199 | 68 | 26.33 | 79.39 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 | 7 | 0 | 218 | 279 | 63 | 31.14 | 78.13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – in each country:
| Country | M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| Australia | 18 | 20 | 2 | 842 | 1179 | 147 | 46.77 | 71.41 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 82 | 7 |
| Bangladesh | 13 | 13 | 0 | 402 | 498 | 98 | 30.92 | 80.72 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 40 | 4 |
| England | 16 | 21 | 1 | 718 | 1033 | 106 | 35.90 | 69.50 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 87 | 9 |
| India | 37 | 40 | 2 | 1225 | 1647 | 127 | 32.23 | 74.37 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 121 | 17 |
| New Zealand | 9 | 10 | 1 | 265 | 388 | 118 | 29.44 | 68.29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
| South Africa | 3 | 5 | 1 | 217 | 459 | 96 | 54.25 | 47.27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 8 | 0 | 208 | 407 | 126 | 26.00 | 51.10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 6 | 6 | 0 | 199 | 255 | 63 | 33.16 | 78.03 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
Ajinkya Rahane has scored more than 1000 runs in Australia and India in his short international career. Rahane has performed his best in Australia and South Africa, which is a big boost for any sub-continent batsman.
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – as per home/away/neutral venues:
| M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
| Home | 37 | 40 | 2 | 1225 | 1647 | 127 | 32.23 | 74.37 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 121 | 17 |
| Away | 54 | 68 | 4 | 2426 | 3696 | 147 | 37.90 | 65.63 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 277 | 19 |
| Neutral | 16 | 15 | 1 | 425 | 523 | 79 | 30.35 | 81.26 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 6 |
Ajinkya Rahane has a better average in away matches as compared to home games. Dravid-esque?
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – yearwise:
| Year | M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| 2011 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 401 | 495 | 91 | 30.84 | 81.01 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 41 | 3 |
| 2012 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 122 | 117 | 42 | 20.33 | 104.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| 2013 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 330 | 635 | 96 | 30.00 | 51.96 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 3 |
| 2014 | 38 | 47 | 1 | 1639 | 2351 | 147 | 35.63 | 69.71 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 195 | 14 |
| 2015 | 32 | 37 | 4 | 1352 | 2045 | 127 | 40.96 | 66.11 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 129 | 16 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 232 | 223 | 89 | 33.14 | 104.03 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 2 |
Ajinkya Rahane has scored more than 1000 runs in two consecutive calendar years – 2014 (1639 runs) and 2015 (1352 runs).
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – under different captains:
| Captain | M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s |
| MS Dhoni | 78 | 87 | 5 | 2801 | 3903 | 147 | 34.15 | 71.76 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 299 | 28 |
| Gautam Gambhir | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Virat Kohli | 20 | 27 | 2 | 1059 | 1684 | 127 | 42.36 | 62.88 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 114 | 12 |
| Ajinkya Rahane | 5 | 5 | 0 | 149 | 189 | 63 | 29.80 | 78.83 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Suresh Raina | 3 | 3 | 0 | 67 | 89 | 64 | 22.33 | 75.28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Ajinkya Rahane has performed his best under the leadership of Virat Kohli.
Distribution of Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs – as per match result-wise:
| M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
| Won | 53 | 59 | 3 | 1989 | 2737 | 127 | 35.51 | 72.67 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 199 | 28 |
| Lost | 42 | 49 | 2 | 1395 | 2008 | 96 | 29.68 | 69.47 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 140 | 12 |
| Tied | 2 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 67 | 38 | 20.50 | 61.19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Drawn | 7 | 10 | 1 | 580 | 942 | 147 | 64.44 | 61.57 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 82 | 1 |
| No result | 3 | 3 | 1 | 71 | 112 | 40 | 35.50 | 63.39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Ajinkya Rahane has a better average in matches that India have either won or drawn, as compared to defeats.
Ajinkya Rahane’s international career runs in major tournaments:
| M | I | NO | R | BF | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 0s | 4s | 6s | |
| World Cup | 8 | 7 | 1 | 208 | 252 | 79 | 34.66 | 82.53 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 3 |
| Asia Cup | 5 | 5 | 0 | 174 | 227 | 73 | 34.80 | 76.65 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
| World T20 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 94 | 89 | 40 | 23.50 | 105.61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Border-Gavaskar | 5 | 10 | 1 | 407 | 652 | 147 | 45.22 | 62.42 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 53 | 0 |
