'Rahane at no 4 in wc?' - Fans shower praises on Ajinkya Rahane as he smashes a swashbuckling half-century against KKR

The veteran CSK batter Ajinkya Rahane left everyone stunned with his swashbuckling knock in the ongoing match against the Kolkata Knight Riders. He played a blistering knock of 71 runs off just 29 balls with six boundaries and five massive sixes having an impressive strike rate of 244.82. Rahane completed his half-century in just 24 balls.

The fans were also elated and ecstatic following this amazing and impressive knock by the 34-year-old. They immediately took to Twitter to lavish the praises on the veteran Test specialist who shone like never before in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League 2023.

Here’s how fans reacted to the swashbuckling knock of Ajinkya Rahane:

Rahane at no 4 in wc?

— Gobar🐕in-Asiacup-68runs__WC-110runs.PKMKB (@GobarPkmkb_Azam) April 23, 2023

Har team m ek na ek legend player h jo impact daal rha h...

— Chad Sigma Male Aryan (@AryanChouksey13) April 23, 2023

Best number 3 of T20is 🙏

— ︎ ︎ (@omg_bro_wtf) April 23, 2023

That is why leadership plays important role and MSD is Picasso of it and always support his players even if they r not performing. Consistency is the key and dhoni hardly chnage his playing XI

— vikas pandey (@vikaspandey6) April 23, 2023

#AjinkyaRahane the Phoenix bird 🙌🙌🙌#CSKvsKKR #IPL2O23

— abhi (@hey_its_abhi) April 23, 2023

Dhoni magic. pic.twitter.com/Pw77ucuG1u

— Chiraag (@Tvvitterlndia) April 23, 2023

Another fifty in this IPL by @ajinkyarahane88 !!
This is 24 ball.... again strike rate more than 200!!!
Great going 👍

— Kiran (@kirangupte) April 23, 2023

Yes bro, this is intent and this is t20 cricket is all about.. he is Mr. Reliable for India as well deserve comeback in wtc final and world cup as Shreyas is injured

— B Karthik (@BKarthik9505) April 23, 2023

Nice place in wtc final

— Brucew tweets (SRH) 🧡🔶🔸. (@brucew_tweets) April 23, 2023

We lost the diamond in search of gold, I am a great fan of his middling the bat, the form which with him he is perfect for ODI wc as a opener or first down. After Rahul Dravid any one can middling the ball properly he is Jink. A great cricketer.

— Kamalakant Parhi 🇮🇳 (@kamalakantparh2) April 23, 2023

Rahane 2.O

What an incredible batting. 👏

— Amrendra (@amrendraa77) April 23, 2023

Speaking of the ongoing action of the match at the moment, Kolkata Knight Riders are chasing the massive target of 236 runs posted by the visitors. They have scored 42 runs for the loss of two wickets in 3.2 overs. Skipper Nitish Rana and impact player Venkatesh Iyer are there in the middle at the individual scores of 20 and 18 runs respectively at the time of filling this copy.

Pacers, Akash Singh and Tushar Deshpande have scalped one wicket each so far in the match for the yellow outfits.

Earlier, the CSK battling lineup completely outmuscled the hosts’ bowling attack with three half-centuries from Devon Conway, Ajinkya Rahane, and young batter Shivam Dube. Other than Rahane’s knock, Devon Conway also scored 56 runs with four boundaries and three sixes followed by Shivam Dube who played a quick knock of 50 runs off just 21 balls with two boundaries and five sixes with the wood.

On the back of these knocks, Chennai Super Kings managed to put in a big total of 235 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Kulwant Khejroliya scalped two wickets for KKR alongside one wicket each claimed by Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma.