With 5000+ runs in the most arduous and draining format of the game at the highest annals, which is test match cricket and no fewer than 85 test matches against his name, Ajinkya Rahane would have wanted to walk the longer route in international cricket for India, but unfortunately it wasn’t to be.
But having said that for the Cricketer who’s played all three formats for India at the highest pedestal of the game and scored runs voraciously -both home and away- it could be said that Ajinkya Rahane’s next possible destination would have definitely be some exciting franchise Cricket League in different parts of the world, not necessarily India.
And guess what? Just days after announcing his sad retirement from test match cricket, but not after continuing to talk with the Cricket administrators in India about a possible chance to return to test match cricket (but having been denied to do so), it appears that the next possible Cricket destination of Ajinkya Rahane is very much here.
As a matter of fact, it has already arrived.
So for those a few, who are wondering as to wear, Ajinkya Rahane is going to play his international cricket. Next, it should be informed that he is going to play a Premier T20 evolving franchise League in the beating heart of the European mainland, which is the ETPL.
Ajinkya Rahane to debut for Amsterdam Flames in ETPL
Interestingly, Ajinkya Rahane is going to debut for the Steven Waugh-owned franchise in the ETPL, which goes by the name of Amsterdam Flames.
With several experienced and redoubtable names from the international arena coming together to start a new wave of Cricketing culture, where franchise Cricket is concerned, the Netherlands ajd Ireland are going to be exciting destinations in the days ahead where it comes to the constant rise of T20 cricket!
These are quite emphatic times for white ball cricketing action, indeed with the Hundred happening in England, simultaneously.
There are teams owned by the lives of Steven Waugh, Rahul Dravid, Abhishek Bachchan, Matthew Haydon among many others.
And it is very much here that somebody who is a class act in the form of Ajinkya Rahane, better known for his calm temperament, compact technique, and fluent run scoring, ways can come good and inspire youngsters, with his brilliant approach to batting.
Can Ajinkya Rahane make a mark in the European T20 Premier League?
At the highest annals of T20I cricket, Rahane struck 375 runs from 20 outings in the format for India but the world got to see his familiar and methodical ways of run making in a much grander spectacle where it came to the Indian Premier League, a long standing association that still continues to this very day for the mild mannered warrior with the bat. He’s scored 5300 plus runs in his checkered IPL journey and this precious experience will certainly inspire the batter to perform in his brand new role in Europe.