Kolkata Knight RidersCaptain
Ajinkya Rahane
Batter · Right-hand bat · Right-arm medium
India · Age 37 · No. 3
The numbers
Career record
188
Matches
4420
Runs
30.7
Average
128.4
Strike rate
31
Fifties
2
Hundreds
105
High score
Form
Last ten innings
The form trajectory across the most recent appearances.
Cooling off
5328105661735452946
Player intelligence
The read on his game
AI-generated analysis, grounded in his career numbers and role.
Ajinkya averages 30.7 at a strike rate of 128, a profile built for control rather than highlight reels.
Strengths
- Manipulates the strike better than the raw strike rate suggests.
- Exceptional square of the wicket, the cut and the pull are run-scoring shots, not survival ones.
- A genuine finisher: the strike rate climbs, not dips, in the death overs.
Ways to get at him
- Can be tied down early by disciplined seam in the channel outside off.
- The well-directed short ball is still a way back into a spell against him.
Pressure performance
63
Scoring zones
Venue performance
Returns home to Eden Gardens, where the average first-innings score is 172.