{"id":22277,"date":"2025-04-29T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=592866"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:39:05","slug":"dc-vs-kkr-what-happened-to-captain-ajinkya-rahane-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/dc-vs-kkr-what-happened-to-captain-ajinkya-rahane-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"DC vs KKR: What happened to captain Ajinkya Rahane? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"426\">Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain <strong data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"257\">Ajinkya Rahane<\/strong> suffered a <strong data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"294\">painful finger injury<\/strong> during a crucial Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match against <strong data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"382\">Delhi Capitals (DC)<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"414\">Arun Jaitley Stadium<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"738\">The incident took place on the <strong data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"490\">first ball of the 12th over<\/strong> while <strong data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"514\">Andre Russell<\/strong> was bowling to <strong data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"548\">Faf du Plessis<\/strong>, who was anchoring DC\u2019s innings with fluent stroke play. Russell delivered a no-ball \u2014 a half-volley outside off \u2014 which du Plessis drove towards <strong data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"710\">extra cover<\/strong>, where Rahane was fielding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"1105\">In an effort to stop the ball, <strong data-start=\"771\" data-end=\"829\">Rahane misfielded and took a direct blow to his finger<\/strong>, which was seen <strong data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"870\">bleeding immediately<\/strong>. The physio was rushed onto the field as the skipper appeared visibly in pain. Moments later, <strong data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"1003\">Rahane was escorted off the ground<\/strong>, leaving KKR temporarily without their leader in what is a <strong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1086\">do-or-die encounter<\/strong> for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1347\">KKR, already under pressure from the aggressive DC batting lineup, faced a setback with the captain\u2019s injury adding to their challenges. Rahane\u2019s injury came at a critical phase in the match when KKR was pushing hard to stay in the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1464\">There is <strong data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1414\">no official update yet on the severity of the injury<\/strong> or whether Rahane will return to bat if required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1671\">KKR are currently battling to stay alive in the playoff race and a full-strength squad is essential at this stage. Fans and team management alike will be hoping for a swift recovery for the veteran leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain Ajinkya Rahane suffered a painful finger injury during a crucial Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-22277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ajinkya-rahane"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}