Ravindra Jadeja has become only the second Indian player to have taken 450 wickets and scored over 4500 runs in international cricket. Before him, only former India captain Kapil Dev achieved the double feat. Ravindra Jadeja achieved the feat after he picked a couple of wickets in the first innings against England.
The spinner accounted for the wickets of Haseeb Hameed and Moeen Ali. He has now taken 450 wickets in 273 matches of his overall international career. He has taken 5 wickets on 10 occasions. His best performance in Test cricket is 7 wickets for 48 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja Second Indian Player After Kapil Dev To Take 450 Wickets And Scored 4500 Runs In International Cricket
At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja has also scored 4716 runs at an average of 32 with a century that came in Test cricket. As far as Kapil Dev is concerned, he took 687 wickets in 356 matches and scored 9031 runs. The former Indian captain has also scored 9 centuries and had taken 5 wickets on 24 occasions.
In 168 ODIs, the spinner has taken 188 wickets at an average of 37 and his best performance in a match is 5 wickets for 36 runs. In the shortest T20I format, he has taken 39 wickets in 50 matches and his best figures read 3 wickets for 48 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja was amongst the wickets after 5 innings in a Test match. He has been in good form with the bat and scored a 50 in the first innings of the first Test at Nottingham. He also scored a valuable 40 runs in the first innings of the second Test played at Lord’s.
Ravindra Jadeja Hasn’t Impressed With The Ball In The Test Series
Ravindra Jadeja has so far picked just two wickets in the ongoing Test series. After winning the toss and opting to bat first, Virat Kohli-led India squandered a golden opportunity and was bowled out for just 78. Further, the selection and exclusion of few players in the team have left experts and fans to question India’s strategy.
All-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin’s omission from three Tests is one of the hottest topics. Virat Kohli has preferred Ravindra Jadeja and has gone with a 4-1 pace and spin combination so far. Strangely, Ravindra Jadeja has not been used much with the ball and has bowled relatively few overs(76 overs) picking two wickets and scoring 103 runs so far in the first 3 Tests (4 innings).
On day three, Headingley was the scene of a fightback. From India in general, whose openers battled through the early overs, resisted James Anderson, and whose top order lost only the wicket of KL Rahul in the first 47 overs they faced. From Cheteshwar Pujara in particular, who overcame a streak of 12 innings in which he did not pass 50 once, to finish the day as his team’s top-scorer, nine runs short of what would be his first century since January 2019.
India 78 and 215 for 2 (Pujara 91*, Rohit 59, Kohli 45*) trail England 432 (Root 121, Malan 70, Hameed 68, Burns 61, Shami 4-95, Bumrah 2-59) by 139 runs