Ajinkya Rahane will be in charge of the Indian cricket team during the second, third and fourth Test matches of the Border-Gavaskar Cup after skipper Virat Kohli will return home after the first Test in Adelaide to be with his wife Anushka Sharma for the birth of their first child.

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While this can be an arduous task for most of the cricketers in the Indian dressing room, especially when the team is going to lock horns against the mighty Australian side and that too on their home turf, Indian legend, Sunil Gavaskar believes that Rahane will be under "no pressure" while taking over the reins. 

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"There is no real pressure on Ajinkya Rahane, because both the times that he has led the team, he has won. He led against Australia at Dharamshala and India won. He led against Afghanistan and India won. So, as far as his captaincy is concerned, there is going to be no pressure because he knows he is at the moment, only the stand-in captain for the three Test matches," Sunil Gavaskar said on Star Sports show GAME PLAN. 

"So, I don't think the fact about being a captain or carrying on as captain is going to be part of his thinking at all. He will do the job as honestly as he plays his cricket, which means, as a batsman, he will go out there and try and let Pujara try and grind the opposition in and play few more shots maybe," he added. 

It was under the leadership of Kohli that Team India were finally able to win a Test series in Australia back when they won the 2018-19 Border Gavaskar Trophy series with a 2-1 lead. However one of the biggest reasons for worry, for Rahane as the captain is the very absence of two of their greatest batsmen in Kohli and Rohit Sharma (at the latter in at least during the first two matches).

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