AUS vs IND: Ajinkya Rahane dismissed run out for first time in Test profession, joins Rahul Dravid in distinctive checklist

Image Source : AP India’s Ajinkya Rahane, proper, is run out by Australia’s Tim Paine, left, throughout play on day three of the second cricket take a look at between India and Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Dec. 28 After all the hassle from Australia all through day 2, which concerned three dropped catches, it took a run out to eliminate the Indian stand-in skipper Ajinkya Rahane on the third morning of the Boxing Day Test on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Rahane walked again to a standing ovation from the MCG crowd, for 112 runs.  Ravindra Jadeja, then on 49, regarded determined to finish a single that may additionally take the result in a three-figure mark and therefore took off after heading off a supply from Nathan Lyon in the direction of mid-on. Rahane, the ever-generous participant, determined to go for the run on Jadeja’s name, however whereas the latter survived, Rahane succumbed, by the barest of margins. Marnus Labuschagne threw the ball in the direction of Tim Paine in time for the keeper to take away the bails.  Rahane pated Jadeja, most likely of the same guilt that had engulfed him when he ran out Virat Kohli in Adelaide, as he walked again scoring 112 runs, the second-highest rating by an Indian captain on the MCG and the fifth amongst all visiting captains.  Rahane has been RUN OUT! His glorious hundred involves an finish after Labuschagne’s high quality throw #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/6Ke1SWI2xm — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 28, 2020 This was for the primary time in his Test profession that Rahane was dismissed run out. He suffered the same dismissal 4 instances in ODIs and as soon as in T20Is. He additionally grew to become the third Indian captain to attain a century and be dismissed run out after Vijay Hazare in 1951 and Rahul Dravid in 2006. This was additionally the second time a staff that featured two completely different captains in the identical collection have been dismissed run out, with Kohli having suffered the destiny in Adelaide. The earlier such occasion was in India’s collection in opposition to Pakistan in 2004 when Dravid was run out within the second Test and Sourav Ganguly within the third.  Jadeja finally accomplished his half-century within the subsequent over, his fifteenth within the Test profession, to take India’s lead previous 100 on the MCG.