Ajinkya Rahane asked: “What are we needlessly batting…”

IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a shameful defeat against Punjab Kings in the last match. The team chased a target of 112 runs, reduced to a score of 95 in 15.1 overs. Punjab has created history with this victory, as they defended the most lowest score in IPL history.

After the victory against Kolkata, the Punjab Kings team was not hiding hiding, all the players were seen celebrating with full enthusiasm. At the same time, when the captains of both the teams handshaw after the match, the captain Ajinkya Rahane said such a thing, which has gone viral on social media.

Ajinkya Rahane said such a thing about the team

In a clip going viral on social media, Ajinkya Rahane was seen calling Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer in Marathi, Kay waste Batting Kelly Na Amhi

Was watching the #Pbksvkkr Game and Caught this funny bit as shreyas and rahane shok hands at the end. In a self-dePrecating way rahane appears to be saying to shreyas in Marathi: Kay waste wealth pic.twitter.com/bnkc7txgbu

– Nikhil Ghanekar (@nghanekar) April 15, 2025

Chasing the target against Punjab Kings, Kolkata lost two wickets on a score of 7. After this, there was a 55 -run partnership between Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi and the team was easily winning the match. But such a batting colps occurred, which will not make the team recover quickly. Yuzvendra Chahal took the most four wickets. While Marco Jensen was included in three wickets.

This is the failure of the batting unit- Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane expressed disappointment over his team’s batting after the match. He did not blame the pitch, although it was said that the ball was stopping a bit. He also appreciated the bowlers of Punjab. Rahane said on the post match presentation,

“The wicket was good. The ball was coming a little late. But the bowlers did half the work. As you said, they were all out at 111. It was easy to chase the target on 112 runs on this wicket. We got a good start. We scored 50 runs in Powerplay and I think I think our 3 wickets had fallen. But again, it is a batting unit failure,”