Ajinkya Rahane has recovered from his tendon tear injury which he suffered during the IPL 2022 while playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). This injury had made Rahane miss out on selection for the rescheduled fifth Test against England in Edgbaston.
34-year-old has played 82 Test matches and has scored 4931 runs at an average of almost 39. Rahane has also stroked 25 fifties and 12 centuries for India in the Test arena with his highest being 188. Rahane has also played 90 ODIs and 20 T20Is for the Men in Blue and has amassed 2962 and 375 runs respectively.
Now as per the Times of India, Rahane has achieved full fitness and will join Mumbai Cricket Association’s indoor nets facility at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) from early next week. He was included in the list of 47 players the Mumbai’s selectors named for an off-season fitness camp at BKC, which will begin either on Monday or Tuesday.
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“Rahane has come back from the National Cricket Academy (after recuperating from the injury). He’s fine now. I met him recently. The presence of senior players like him will help youngsters in the camp,” Mumbai chief selector Salil Ankola told TOI.
The selectors have excluded experienced wicketkeeper Aditya Tare from the list. Tare was dropped from the Vijay Hazare Trophy last season.
“We had conveyed to Tare last season that he’s not in the scheme of things in white-ball cricket,” Ankola said.