Ajinkya Rahane saw 302x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Ajinkya Madhukar Rahane is a former Indian professional cricketer and also captained the India national cricket team in all three formats. He formerly played for and captained Mumbai in domestic cricket. He played primarily as a middle-order batsman in the Test format and as a top-order batsman in white-ball forms of the game. India lost only one match under his captaincy.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 15 edits to this article on 2026-07-30, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Test career
• IPL career

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,283 characters that day. The largest single addition was 349 characters to IPL career. See everything that changed on 2026-07-30 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.