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Kolkata Knight Riders finally appointed his captain for the next season of the Indian Premier League. Veteran Cricter Ajinkya Rahane has been appointed team captain by IPL 2025 with Venkatesh Iyer as a Member.
There was many speculations on KKR Captaincy when Shreyas Iyer left the franchise after the title victory last year. After long discussions, the franchise decided to appoint Ajinkya Rahane as captain.
Social media was buzzing after Rahane’s designation as new KKR captain. While some of the users supported KKR to do it under Rahane, some were not in favor of this decision.
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Twitter reacts when Ajinkya Rahane becomes KKR Captain
All the best @Ajinkyarahane88 And @venkateshay 💪
We win our fourth IPL Trophy this year 💜🔥– Abhinav (@abhinavat_07) March 3, 2025
🎊🎉 Congratulations @Ajinkyarahane88
It’s time to show all the haters you are capable of– YJ (@yjgaming987) March 3, 2025
Title Defend Chalu Karte H Khtam
– Movie_reviews (@moviereview_hub) March 3, 2025
Fuck @Ajinkyarahane88 Destroyed my beautiful team, only fuckkk offfff fkn responsibility as always, shit cricket
– 74 and 12 (@ICT_KKR) March 3, 2025
What a stupid decision. Why spent 23.75 crore in Venkatesh Iyer then
Rahane does not even make the best of kkr in merit https://t.co/lt8ji63k2e
– Aayushkataria (@aayush11kataria) March 3, 2025
This is ridiculous. Unless Rahane shot with the bat, KKR has dug a deep pit. Venky should have been directly captain. https://t.co/bcrewgyvuu
– Strike1andout (@stope1andout) March 3, 2025
Wal who
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Fraud Ajinkya Rahane the captain of my beautiful team in Big 2025 ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜#Kkr https://t.co/cboxQ1H0AG– Sk Chatterjee 🚩 (@ skatterjee02) March 3, 2025
BAS 1.5 Crore Ka Ipl Captain ðŸ˜
– Mojito Classic (@Classic_mojito) March 3, 2025
KKR will not keep IPL safe now
– Men’s cricket (@menscriclet) March 3, 2025
A bit disagree, but looking at this situation, Veny already has a price burden and someone like Rahane can sit for this cycle, as he has a lot of experience to offer.
All the best 💜– 🦊 â„¢ (@spidermanx08) March 3, 2025
@Venkymysore Remembering -you humbly that this team defends champions and is not an irrelevant franchise for assigning captaincy to a non -sold player.
I am sure that Gautam Gambhir Wud has had the inconvenience to appoint Venkatesh as Captain. Thank you for undoing all the progress that GG made.
– Ricky (@rickysaji) March 3, 2025
Ideally, Rahane should not even be in the 11th play for all games, Aur uses Captain Bana Diya.
– Aarchi (@oye_aarchi) March 3, 2025
Horrible decision
He does not even deserve to play the initial XI, but the people made the captain!
– Mustafa Moudi (@mustafamoudi) March 3, 2025
KKR goes with experience
Ajinkya Rahane’s designation is not a great surprise, as it was already among the contestants to run the champions defending this year. He, next to Venkatesh Iyer, were the biggest nursingons for the role of captaincy.
However, the management of the KKR team decided to go with Rahane’s experience and named him for the role. Venkatesh Iyer is also part of the leadership group and has been appointed vice-chic for the team.
Iyer was signed at a massive amount of 23.75 INR crores at the IPL 2025 Mega-Soussion. The price label seemed to be a little too much for a player who is not part of the Indian team.
On the other hand, Ajinkya Rahane was signed for only 1.5 Crore Inr. Surprisingly, he got rid of the initial rounds after a disappointing CSK season last year. However, it was signed by KKR in the round accelerated by its base price.
Ajinkya Rahane’s IPL numbers
Ajinkya Rahane has the previous experience of running an IPL team. He directed the rise in Pune Supergiants in a lonely game in 2017 and then led Rajasthan Royals in 2018 and partially in 2019.
Rahane is a very experienced cricket in the IPL, played 185 games and scored 4642 runs at an average of 30.14 and a strike rate of 123.42. It also has two centuries IPL in its name.
The 36 -year -old had a great season in the Indian T20 Tournament, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, where he appeared as the highest scorer of the season.
Rahane scored 469 runs in 9 games with an average of 58.62 and a strike rate of 164.56. He played a key role in Mumbai’s title winning career.
The IPL 2025 will begin on March 22 with KKR taking RCB in the opening game of the season. With Rahane, turning KKR captain, Delhi Capitals is still the only team in the IPL who has not named any captain so far.
