Indian long format player and even recently the stand-in captain of the Test team - Ajinkya Rahane has hinted that he was unfairly dropped from India’s ODI setup.
Never one to publicly come out and give interviews, Rahane has broken his mould by speaking at Backstage with Boria and has made a series of hard hitting statements.
Talking about his ODI career, Rahane said that he was dropped out of nowhere despite enjoying good form. He had scored five consecutive half-centuries in the 2017-18 season before the South Africa tour which India won by the margin of 5-1.
Rahane went through a lean patch in the series and scored just one half century and one score above 30s. With Kohli in tremendous form, Rahane played second fiddle in both those innings and scored at a SR of 91 and 68 respectively in winning cause.
His last five innings in ODI were 79, 11, 8, 8, 34*after which he got dropped. Delving on the same Rahane said, “Before that (February 2018), I was playing ODI cricket continuously for Team India and I was doing really well. Suddenly, I got dropped, I don’t want to go into that, I don’t want to go into my past but the reality is I was playing well in 2014, 15, 16, and 17. ODI and Test cricket both were going really well. After that I hardly got game time, there was a huge gap between Test matches.”
Rahane is currently fighting for a place in the national team and has gone back to play in the Ranji Trophy in the hopes of reviving his form.