On March 3, the franchise made the announcement. In addition to Rahane’s appointment, Venkatesh Iyer was named vice-captain.
The decision follows KKR’s purchase of Rahane at his base price of ₹1.5 crore in November of last year during the IPL mega auction.
A statistical overview of Rahane’s IPL career Over his career, Rahane has represented six IPL teams – Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiant, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and now KKR.
He has scored 4,642 runs across 185 games at an average of 30.14 with two centuries and 30 half-centuries to his name, as per ESPNcricinfo.
His incredible stats also include 103 sixes and 478 fours with a 123.42 strike rate.
Franchise stats
Rahane’s performance with different franchises
Rahane’s performance fluctuated with franchises.
With Rajasthan Royals, he played 100 IPL matches and scored 2,810 runs at 34.26 with two centuries and 17 fifties.
He only scored 148 runs in 10 matches for the Mumbai Indians, scoring 18.50 (50s: 2). For Rising Pune Supergiant, he scored 862 runs in just as many matches at 33.15 (50s: 8).
In 27 matches for CSK, he smashed 568 runs at 25.81 (50s: 2).
Leadership stats
Rahane’s captaincy experience and performance
Rahane captained RR and RPS across 25 matches. He had nine victories and 16 losses. He has a win percentage of 36.
Notably, 24 of his matches as captain came for RR. Meanwhile, Rahane has managed just 583 runs at 25.34 while captaining in IPL (50s: 2).
In his only previous season with KKR in IPL 2022, he played seven matches scoring only 133 runs at 19.
Additional statistics
Rahane’s T20 stats
Overall in T20s, Rahane has bagged 6,852 runs from 271 matches (255 innings).
He has a strike rate of 123.88 and an average of 29.66. In addition to 2 centuries, he has 48 fifties. Rahane has spanked 693 fours and a total of 160 sixes.
375 of Rahane’s T20 runs came for India (T20Is) at 20.83 (SR: 113.29). He has slammed one fifty.
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Rahane’s experiences and journey as a leader Rahane’s new role as captain is a major shift in his career. He was recently replaced as Mumbai’s captain for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy by Shreyas Iyer.
However, Rahane brings a lot of experience to KKR because he led the Indian Test team to a historic series victory in Australia in 2020 and 21. Notably, his appointment comes as a surprise as many expected Venkatesh to take on the leadership role after being bought back by KKR for ₹23.75 crore this year.