Nitish Rana IPL profile: 2853 runs at 136 strike-rate, 20 fifties, 261 fours, 141 sixes, highest 87, 10 seasons, now with Rajasthan Royals Left-handed dynamo Nitish Rana has quietly built one of the IPL’s most consistent batting résumés, stacking 2,853 runs from just 2,086 balls faced—a boundary every eight balls thanks to 261 fours and 141 sixes. Across 112 innings he has reached fifty on 20 occasions, his 87 against Delhi at Sharjah standing as his personal best. After eight productive years with Kolkata Knight Riders, Rana enters the 2025 season wearing Rajasthan Royals colours, bringing a proven power game and a handy off-spin option that has already delivered 10 wickets in 26 cameo bowling innings.

Ajinkya Rahane IPL journey spans 17 seasons, 183 innings and a mountain of 5,032 runs that have come off 4,025 balls at a brisk strike-rate of 125. The Mumbai-born right-hander has punished bowlers for 514 fours and 123 sixes, crossing fifty 33 times and reaching three figures on two memorable occasions, the highest being an unbeaten 105. After stints with Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiant, Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings, he is back with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2025. While Rahane has rolled his arm over only once in the league, picking up a solitary wicket in a six-ball cameo that cost five runs, he remains celebrated as one of the league’s most technically sound and consistent top-order batsmen.

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