Rahane breaks 9 fours and breaks the record of the big player

New Delhi. Records will also be broken in two months long tournament. The 18th season starts banging in almost every match, which started with the opening match where the Kolkata captain scored the first half -century of the season.

Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL 2025 was not well under Rahane’s captaincy. He had to face defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first match. However, Ajinkya Rahane performed well in this match. Rahane scored 56 runs in the captaincy innings. Now KKR will compete with Rajasthan Royals. Rahane can break a special record of Gautam Gambhir in this match.

Rahane can break Gautam’s record

In the last season, Rahane’s new avatar, which rained fours for Chennai Super Kings, was seen in the year 2024. Now in the year 2025, Rahane joined Kolkata with new responsibility and old form and exploded in the first match. Rahane, who was the best Test player, mastered playing ground shots, so he is ranked seventh in the Oval All List in terms of most fours in the IPL. He has hit a total of 484 fours so far. Rahane can leave Gautam Gambhir behind in terms of most fours. Gambhir has hit 492 fours in the IPL. If Rahane hit nine fours against Rajasthan, then Gambhir will leave behind. At the same time, after applying 8 fours, they will match them. In view of the form in which Rahane is, he can do this feat in Guwahati.

Who is the champion in hitting fours in IPL?

Shikhar Dhawan is at the top in terms of most fours in the IPL. Dhawan has played 222 IPL matches. He has hit 768 fours during this period. King Kohli is second in this case. Kohli has hit 709 fours in 253 matches. David Warner is ranked third with 663 fours. Rohit Sharma is at number four in the list. He has hit 599 fours. In this season, this number can be carried forward along with Virat and Rohit.

Ajinkya’s IPL record –

Rahane of Mumbai, who has played for different franchisees, has played 186 matches so far in the IPL. He has scored 4698 runs during this period. Rahane has scored 2 centuries and 31 half -centuries in the tournament. The previous season was nothing special for him. Rahane scored 242 runs in 13 matches of IPL 2024. While 326 runs in 14 matches of 2023. The 2012 and 2015 season was quite good for Rahane. He scored 560 runs in 2012 and 540 runs in 2015. In this season too, Kolkata from Rahane will be expecting batting like last season.