Satire: 5 reasons why Ajinkya Rahane was dropped from Test side in South Africa

Didn't salute Ravi Shastri in a training session

Ajinkya should learn to do this more often

Rule number four in the Indian cricket team states that if you don't respect your captain's favourite, you won't get a place in the playing XI. It is quite obvious that the Indian captain's favourite is coach Ravi Shastri, especially after seeing how adamant he was about getting the former Indian all-rounder the coach's role.

Now that there are no valid reasons to drop Rahane from the side, one can infer that the right-hander might have forgotten to salute the Indian coach in one of the team's training sessions.

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Maybe the likes of Misbah-ul-Haq or the man above would have had good careers with the Indian team, thanks to this rule.