Please stay to this match,” Ajinkya Rahane requested after yet another question on international cricket, making clear his immediate priorities after Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy quarter-final victory over Haryana at the Eden Gardens here on Tuesday. 

The 36-year-old Mumbai skipper, who had among other things, led Team India to a sensational come-from-behind victory in Australia in 2021, did go to remind that “there is still a great deal of hunger left in me” when the question of an international return came up. “Test cricket stills holds a big place in my mind, but I don’t think too much about it,” he added.