Cricket fraternity applauds Ajinkya Rahane on Twitter for his twin-tons in the Delhi Test

Ajinkya Rahane has always been a consistent performer when it comes to Test cricket overseas but his contribution in the longest format at home till the Delhi Test was not noteworthy. He stuck to his guns and held on to his nerves as he came out fighting in the fourth Test at Delhi against South Africa and silenced his doubting Thomases.

Rahane fired two back-to-back centuries in both the innings and gave a testament of his abilities of excellence in home conditions. He bailed his team out of crisis in the first innings with his tenacious knock of 127 and continued his good run with an unbeaten century in the second innings (100 not out) before the Indian innings was declared for 267.

India are in a commendable position at the moment as South Africa need more 476 runs to win with just nine wickets to spare. Cricket fraternity took to the social media to praise the elegant right-handed batsman for his brilliance with the bat on a wicket where most of the batsmen have struggled to get their feet moving. We present you with the pick of the tweets.

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Ajinkya Rahane now leading run-getter in this series with 266 runs and also player with most catches (10) #IndvSA

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) December 6, 2015

WOW!!100 in both the innings & when the team needed the most What an achievement @ajinkyarahane88 Keep it up#IndvsSA @BCCI — VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) December 6, 2015

On a pitch where most batsmen have struggled, Ajinkya Rahane has a century in each innings #INDvSA pic.twitter.com/3DjQpgjKCF

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) December 6, 2015

Well played Ajinkya Rahane! The kind of guy you are always rooting for. — Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) December 6, 2015

Ajinkya Rahane’s batting average at home: before Delhi Test: 7.83 after Delhi Test: 39.14 #IndvsSA

— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) December 6, 2015

A very special day for a special, selfless young man #Rahane — Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) December 6, 2015

Well played @ajinkyarahane88 @BCCI. Solid performance #consistency #Class displayed. Two 100’s in #delhi #test #IndvsSA

— Anjum Chopra (@chopraanjum) December 6, 2015

WATCH: A hundred in each innings, century no.6 – one laced with some fine strokes #IndvsSA https://t.co/n4BGS2qeke — BCCI (@BCCI) December 6, 2015

The Rahane success story is perhaps more inspirational than any other stories relating to the current Indian team members

— Gautam Bhattacharya (@gbsaltlake) December 6, 2015

So much written about one Mumbaikar not making runs. If only #rahane would trend for all the right reasons: https://t.co/LfgTyHxaNl #INDvSA — Anand Vasu (@anandvasu) December 6, 2015

Rahane’s hundred in each innings on bowler friendly Kotla is exceptionally special..will go down in history w/glowing terminology-gr8 stuff!

— Bishan Bedi (@BishanBedi) December 6, 2015

Rahane is something else. And I love his understated celebrations. — Samir Chopra (@EyeOnThePitch) December 6, 2015

Congratulations to Ajinkya on a really special performance.#INDvsSA

— Ajit Agarkar (@imAagarkar) December 6, 2015

Hazare, Gavaskar, Dravid, Kohli, Rahane. Twin ton club. #IndvsSA — Anand Vasu (@anandvasu) December 6, 2015

for most mumbai people who don’t quite like delhi on their first trip, it gets a lot better second time round! #Rahane #IndvsSA

— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) December 6, 2015

How fantastic for Ajinkya Rahane to score a hundred in both innings after two single figure scores on debut here. Full circle. #indvsa — Firdose Moonda (@FirdoseM) December 6, 2015

.@ajinkyarahane88 takes major stride towards batting greatness. Century in both innings. Both times coming good in crisis. Wow!

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) December 6, 2015

6th Test century for @ajinkyarahane88 . Second consecutive one at home. What a player! #IndvsSA pic.twitter.com/S5kkElXQsE — BCCI (@BCCI) December 6, 2015