Rachin Ravindra Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rachin Ravindra

• Rachin Ravindra is a New Zealander cricketer. He performs as a batting all-rounder for the New Zealand nationwide cricket crew. He rose to fame after scoring his maiden ODI century within the opening match of the 2023 Cricket World Cup on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

• His family has its roots in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

• Rachin’s dad and mom shifted from India to Wellington within the early Nineties. While his father was in India, he used to play club-level cricket in his hometown Bangalore.

• Rachin grew up watching his father play cricket and developed an curiosity within the sport. He started taking part in cricket at a really younger age. As a baby, he additionally cherished watching cricket on tv.
  

  Rachin Ravindra taking part in cricket in childhood

• Rachin used to practise cricket in his yard along with his father.

• While at school, he was part of the college cricket crew. When he was finding out in school 11, Rachin represented his faculty in a cricket event, the place he scored 208 runs and likewise took six wickets. He was named the participant of the event.
  

  Rachin Ravindra taking part in cricket in his faculty days

• In 2016, Rachin was included in New Zealand’s Under-19 squad for the U-19 World Cup.

• He was part of New Zealand’s Under-19 crew in the course of the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. After the World Cup concluded, Rachin was named because the rising star of the squad by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

• Rachin has performed via the age ranks for New Zealand.

• Rachin performs for Wellington on the prime order in home matches.

• On 30 October 2018, he performed his debut first-class match for New Zealand A towards Pakistan A at ICCA Dubai.

• Rachin Ravindra performed his first List A match for New Zealand A towards Pakistan A on 21 October 2018 at Tolerance Oval.

• During the 2018–19 season of the Tom Ford Trophy, Rachin obtained a contract from Wellington.

• On 27 January 2019, he performed his first T20 match for Wellington towards Otago at Dunedin.

• He scored in maiden List A century throughout a match for Wellington towards Auckland within the 2019–20 Ford Trophy on 25 November 2019.

• Rachin scored his maiden First-class cricket century in March 2020 throughout a match within the 2019–20 season of the Plunket Shield.

• He obtained a contract for the 2020–21 home cricket season from Wellington in June 2020.

•  In November 2020, he was part of the New Zealand A crew that competed towards West Indies throughout their tour in India. Rachin performed just a few observe matches for New Zealand and scored 112 runs in his first observe match.

• He was part of New Zealand’s Test squad for his or her sequence towards England in April 2021. He was additionally part of New Zealand’s squad for the ultimate of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship.
  

  Rachin Ravindra along with his crew throughout a Test match

• He was part of the New Zealand cricket crew that performed the ultimate of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship.

• In August 2021, he was part of New Zealand’s T20 worldwide cricket crew that toured Bangladesh.

• Thereafter, he was included in New Zealand’s one-day worldwide squad for his or her tour in Pakistan. He performed his first one-day worldwide match for New Zealand towards Sri Lanka in Aukland.
  

  Rachin Ravindra throughout a cricket match

• On 1 September 2021, he performed his debut T20 worldwide match for New Zealand towards Bangladesh at Mirpur.

• In June 2022, he was signed by the Durham County Cricket Club to play for them within the County Championship in England.

• He scored his maiden double-century in a first-class match by making 217 runs in his debut match for Durham towards Worcestershire.

• He has additionally represented the Wellington Under 17, Wellington Under 19, and Wellington Firebirds groups on the home degree.

• Rachin was named in New Zealand’s Test squad for his or her Test sequence towards India in November 2022.

• In 2023, he was included in New Zealand’s squad for the Cricket World Cup. In the opening match of the World Cup, Rachin scored his maiden century towards England on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Scoring 123 (not out) runs off 96 balls, that includes 5 sixes and 11 fours, Rachin turned the fourth New Zealander cricketer to attain a century in an ODI World Cup debut. During the match, he, together with Devon Conway, established a partnership of 273 runs off 211 balls, the fourth-highest partnership in World Cup historical past.
  

  Rachin Ravindra after scoring a century in a match

• In his spare time, Rachin likes to journey and do journey sports activities.
  

  Rachin Ravindra doing journey sports activities

• In childhood, he admired the Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. In an interview, whereas speaking about Sachin, Rachin mentioned,
  

  Obviously, I idolised Sachin Tendulkar. I believe lots of people did. I believe the way in which he batted and his method was lovely to look at. I assume being a lefty, there’s guys you have a look at: I really like Lara, I really like Sangakkara, simply the same old gun left-handers; however Tendulkar was undoubtedly the idol.”

• In an interview, Rachin revealed that he was a giant fan of the American basketball participant Kobe Bryant, and he selected jersey quantity 8 as a tribute to Kobe. He mentioned,
  

  My jersey quantity is eight and the importance round it’s I’m a giant basketball fan and that was Kobe Bryant’s first quantity when he first entered the NBA.”

• Apparently, Rachin’s identify is a mixture of the primary names of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. Rachin’s father saved his identify after Rahul and Sachin as he was an enormous fan of them. However, later, his father shared in an interview that his identify was not saved by combining the names of Rahul and Sachin as an alternative, it was advised by his mom as she appreciated the identify. They found it later that his identify was a mixture of Rahul and Sachin.

• He could be very explicit about his health and follows a strict exercise routine.

• Rachin usually consumes alcohol at events and occasions.
  

  Rachin Ravindra throughout a celebration along with his girlfriend

• Initially, Rachin realized cricket from his father. Later, he obtained coaching from the cricket coaches Ivan Tissera, Mark Borthwick, Paul Wiseman, Bob Carter, Sriram Krishnamurthy, Glenn Pocknell, and Bruce Edgar.

• In an interview, Rachin shared that yearly, his father used to take just a few age-group boys to India to achieve expertise at Indian cricket grounds. He additional revealed that he had visited Anantapur (RDT), Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mysore in India.

• In an interview, Rachin’s father revealed that when Rachin was 1 yr previous, he had a small gap in his coronary heart as a consequence of which his dad and mom didn’t enable him to play for lengthy hours. By the time, he turned 4, the opening closed by itself and he turned completely regular.

• On 19 December 2023, Rachin was picked by Chennai Super Kings for a charge of Rs. 1.80 crore towards the bottom worth of Rs. 50 lakh within the 2024 IPL public sale, held on the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai.

Rachin Ravindra will play for the Chennai Super Kings!

He is SOLD to #CSK for INR 1.8 Crore 👏👏#IPLAuction | #IPL | @ChennaiIPL

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 19, 2023