Ajinkya Rahane Six: Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane once again played a brilliant innings. He gave a strong start to the team against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Eden Gardens Stadium. During this innings, Ajinkya Rahane also played a unique shot, the video of which is going viral on social media. While playing this shot, he was not in control at all and the bat also left his hand, yet he managed to score six runs.
Ajinkya Rahane left the bat and hit a six
Ajinkya Rahane hit a brilliant six on the first ball of the 9th over during the Kolkata Knight Riders innings. This ball of Avesh Khan was back of length and was going outside the off stump. Then Rahane tried to swing the bat, but his bat went to one side and the ball flew to the other side. Seeing the way the bat left Rahane’s hand, it seemed that the ball would not go very far, but the result turned out to be amazing. The ball flew over the backward point and fell straight across the boundary. He got six runs on this unique shot.
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Ajinkya Rahane just proved that you dont even need to be holding the bat to clear the ropes.
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He did not hit the ball with the right timing, even the bat was missed, yet the ball went out of the boundary, due to which everyone was surprised. This over of Avesh Khan was costly, a total of 2 sixes were hit against him in this over and some 15 runs were spent.
Ajinkya Rahane played a stormy innings
Ajinkya Rahane was successful in giving a strong start to the team in this match. He scored 41 runs in 24 balls at a strike rate of 170.83. During this, Rahane hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. This is his second 40+ score this season. Earlier, he had played an innings of 67 runs in the very first match of the season. However, his team is still waiting for the first win of the season.