With his characteristic bashful smile, Ajinkya Rahane announced his farewell from the game that was his life for the last twenty years. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ajinkya Rahane (@ajinkyarahane)His leadership, the fleeting proof of it, was a reflection of his batting. When the elements aligned, his batting in the longest format soothed the senses, sucking the tension out of a crisis. Like Rohit and Kohli, he could have carved a more glorious slice of white-ball cricket. But he has made peace with the conditional clauses of his career, and buried all those in the bashful, self-effacing smile of his.