India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja continues to achieve new heights in Check cricket. Of late, he has registered a file that not one of the different gamers have managed to realize to date within the 147-year historical past of cricket. Jadeja has turn into the first-ever participant to attain 2000 plus runs and scalp over 200 wickets in a successful trigger in a Check match. He achieved the feat throughout India’s first Check vs Bangladesh at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The subsequent participant who may equal this file of Jadeja is Ravichandran Ashwin. The star all-rounder has scored 1943 runs and brought 369 wickets in a successful trigger in Check cricket.
Until you are a freak like Jasprit Bumrah, bowlers enjoying alongside Ravichandran Ashwin might be pushed behind the giant-shadow of the grasp off-spinner, even when it is Jadeja, a genius in his personal proper.
Someday throughout the Kanpur Check later this week, Jadeja, now standing at 299 wickets and 3122 runs, will be part of an elite membership of cricketers to have achieved the grand double of 300 wickets and 3000 runs within the longest format.
Bear it in thoughts, solely 10 gamers, together with two from India in Ashwin and Kapil Dev, have achieved this mark within the historical past of cricket and a few luminaries akin to Gary Sobers and Jacques Kallis are lacking from that listing too.
However nonetheless Jadeja’s identify hardly get talked about in the identical breath as a number of the aforesaid all-rounders.
In a method, the modus operandi of Jadeja is the first motive for it. Ashwin is eloquent and isn’t afraid to speak about his abilities in a press meet or in his YouTube channel.
Jadeja does neither. He’s fairly joyful to function beneath the radar – like a stealth fighter jet.
However put him right into a state of affairs that calls for a bail-out operation, Jadeja’s combating instincts immediately come forth.
In that manner, he’s very task-oriented. Take the case of the primary Check in opposition to Bangladesh, which India received by a whopping 280 runs.
From 144 for six, Jadeja and Ashwin took India to 376 all out with a 199-run stand for the seventh wicket. Jadeja made 86, however the speak centred round Ashwin’s residence hundred.
Jadeja took 5 wickets within the match, however Ashwin ‘out-bowled’ him with six-wicket haul within the second innings.
Jadeja is an artist whose energy lies not in his artistry however in his aggressive spirit.
However sadly, as soon as once more Jadeja’ helpful all-round effort ended up as a footnote, seen solely to a discerning observer.
(With PTI Inputs)
Subjects talked about on this article