Ajinkya Rahane made such a shameful record, which no batsman would ever want to remember.

New Delhi. In the 28th match of IPL 2026, the teams of Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals faced each other. KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane could not show anything special with the bat on the Eden Gardens ground. Rahane returned to the pavilion without opening the account. With this, a shameful record has been registered in the name of Ajinkya Rahane. Rahane has become the batsman who has been out on zero the most number of times as an opening batsman in IPL. Against RR, Rahane returned to the pavilion for the 12th time without opening the account.

After Rahane, the name of Parthiv Patel is in this list, who has been out on zero 11 times as an opening batsman in IPL. At the same time, names of Shikhar Dhawan (10), Gautam Gambhir (10) and David Warner (9) are also included in this unwanted list. Rahane could not open his account in the last match also.

KKR’s opening pair failed
Before Rahane, his opening partner Tim Seifert was also out without opening the account. This is only the second time in the IPL, when both the KKR openers have been out on zero. Earlier in the year 2014, the opening pair of Gautam Gambhir and Jacques Kallis had returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Rahane has been seen struggling badly in IPL 2026. In the 7 innings played this season, Rahane has been able to score only 152 runs at an average of 25.33. Rahane has scored only one half-century so far this season and he has been out on zero for the second consecutive match. Rahane also failed to open his account against Gujarat Titans.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi also could not show anything special with the bat and he was out after scoring 10 runs after facing 19 balls. At the same time, Cameron Green failed to take advantage of the good start and scored 27 runs in 13 balls with the help of 4 fours and one six. Rovman Powell also could not perform anything special with the bat and was out after scoring 23 runs.

thunder bat of glory
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals scored 155 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 46 runs in 28 balls, while Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed 39 runs in 29 balls. However, except these two, the rest of the RR batsmen were seen struggling badly. In bowling for KKR, Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for 14 runs, while Karthik Tyagi took 3 wickets for 22 runs.