{"id":859067,"date":"2026-03-29T22:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/859067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:09:26","slug":"ask-cricket-australia-ajinkya-rahanes-blunt-remark-on-cameron-green-stuns-commentators-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/859067\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ask Cricket Australia&#8217;: Ajinkya Rahane&#8217;s blunt remark on Cameron Green stuns commentators | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ll-70.jpg\" alt=\"'Ask Cricket Australia': Ajinkya Rahane's blunt remark on Cameron Green stuns commentators\" title=\"Ajinkya Rahane\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> KKR captain Ajinkya <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rahane\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rahane<\/a> made a sarcastic remark involving Cricket Australia after Kolkata Knight Riders lost their <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL<\/a> 2026 opener to Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.KKR went down by six wickets as Mumbai chased 221, with Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton leading the effort.  <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p> Greenstone Lobo predicts IPL 2026 winner After the match, Rahane was asked why Australian all-rounder Cameron Green was not used with the ball despite KKR struggling to break the partnership in the middle overs. Green, the costliest overseas player in IPL history, did not bowl in the match.&#8221;Hopefully Green starts to bowl soon, and the combination will be slightly different. We batted really well but finding that balance with the ball is really important,&#8221; Rahane said after the match.When former West Indies cricketer Ian Bishop asked why Green did not bowl, Rahane responded with a smile. &#8220;The question you need to ask Cricket Australia,&#8221; he said, leading to a brief pause in the discussion. Bishop replied, &#8220;Oh! We\u2019ll leave it at that.&#8221;Rahane also spoke about leaving the field during the second innings due to cramps. \u201cFeeling okay, just a lot of cramps through my calf, both the calves actually. Hopefully, I\u2019ll be okay,\u201d he said.On the game, Rahane said KKR\u2019s bowlers had a difficult outing. \u201cIt was really tough. I thought 220-225 was a good total. We batted well, but our inexperienced bowling attack will learn. Playing against Mumbai Indians\u2019 strong batting lineup is always a challenge. It\u2019s a learning for us.\u201dMumbai Indians ended a long wait for a winning start to an IPL season, beating Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by six wickets in a chase of 221 runs at Mumbai&#8217;s Wankhede Stadium on Sunday.Mumbai had not won their opening match of an IPL season since 2012, but they broke that run with a successful chase at home and they do it by pulling off their biggest chase in IPL history.The previous highest for MI was 219 runs against CSK at Delhi in 2021.Openers Rohit Sharma (78 off 38) and Ryan Rickelton (81 off 43) set up the chase with half-centuries, giving the team a strong start. The batters who followed kept the scoring going as Mumbai completed the chase.The last time Mumbai had won their opening game was in 2012 against Chennai Super Kings.Earlier, KKR posted 220 for 4 after half-centuries from captain Ajinkya Rahane (67) and Angkrish Raghuvanshi (51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane made a sarcastic remark involving Cricket Australia after Kolkata Knight Riders lost their IPL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,5710,17627,15817,184405,244671,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-859067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-ipl","tag-kkr","tag-mi","tag-rahane","tag-rahane-green","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116314752450977744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}