{"id":2696,"date":"2021-09-06T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=146424"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T06:39:20","slug":"former-indian-bowler-zaheer-khan-wants-ajinkya-rahane-to-turn-himself-in-domestic-cricket-to-regain-his-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-indian-bowler-zaheer-khan-wants-ajinkya-rahane-to-turn-himself-in-domestic-cricket-to-regain-his-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indian bowler Zaheer Khan wants Ajinkya Rahane to turn himself in domestic cricket to regain his form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane is in a bad form lately in Test cricket. The batsman currently is in England for the five-Test match series against them. Rahane was selected in the Indian squad for this England tour as the team management and Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli believed in him even when he was not in good touch. But Ajinkya Rahane has only scored a single half-century in this whole Test series against England.<\/p>\n<p>Rahane has played all 4 matches out of 5 against the English side but couldn\u2019t do more in these matches. A half-century and a couple of zeros have put the Indian batsman in question for the further Test matches. India is currently playing their fourth Test at Oval and the series is levelled at 1-1. Ajinkya was featured in both the innings for India but scored 27 in the first and 0 in the second after facing 8 balls. His only half-century came in the second Test which was held at Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground in the first innings. India had their historic win in Lord\u2019s in the second Test. Seeing the 33-year-old Indian batsman, former world cup winner, Zaheer Khan suggested Rahane turn himself in domestic cricket is he can regain his Test form again, and also it will help Rahane boost his confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are struggling to gain from, it\u2019s imperative to take a few steps back, see everything from a wider lens\u2026if you want to play first-class cricket, do that because the pressure there is relatively less and you can try new things,\u201d Zaheer Khan said in an interaction with Cricbuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajinkya Rahane is in a lot of questions these days about his batting form. Indian former bowler Zaheer Khan suggests that Rahane should go to the domestic cricket so that he can regain his form and confidence there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":25782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[606,2678,930,432],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-batsman","tag-indian-cricketer","tag-zaheer-khan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}