Ajinkya Rahane retired from international cricket on Thursday, signing off as “Cap 278”. He leaves with 85 Tests, 90 ODIs, 20 T20Is and more than 8,000 international runs. The numbers do him injustice.

There was a stretch, deep into the last decade, when Rahane’s batting belonged in the company of that of Virat Kohli, Joe........

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