He comes down the order and often when an inning is in major need of a repair.
You can expect him to quickly convert a good start into a handy score.
He’s among the fastest runners between the wickets and once he sets out with the ball in hand, you can be sure that despite not being blessed with a lot of turns, Ravindra Jadeja would ably contain runs from one end.
An agile fielder, and someone whose direct hits more often than not end up disturbing the timber, if there’s a complete cricketer around then Ravindra Jadeja is in that rare league.
A Key Landmark Awaits Ravindra Jadeja test record
Now, all set to participate in the next big upcoming Test series, it appears that Ravindra Jadeja test records are approaching the next big landmark in his Test career.
All of 30 with only 41 Tests against his name, it may not be wrong to suggest that Ravindra Jadeja is still pretty much crafting what should hopefully be a memorable and lasting career. Someone who’s blessed with impeccable fitness standards, Ravindra Jadeja always seems on the cusp of something wonderful and memorable.
And lest it is forgotten, in the Two-Test series that begins in the Caribbean against West Indies in the next few hours Ravindra Jadeja seems capable of doing just that.
Where it stands presently, then Ravindra Jadeja test record reads that he’s just 8 wickets shy of reaching 200 Test wickets. In a sport where often careers wind up before a bowler can scale his first major landmark- 50 wickets- and where it often takes all the time in a world to cross 150 scalps, Jadeja, with his slow left- armers is in a whisker of a special landmark.
What’s more?
Jadeja would become the 2nd fastest to 200 Test wickets (IBTimes)
If he’s able to reach that feat in the First Test at Sir Vivian Richards’ land, at Antigua, then he will become only the 10th Indian bowler to have taken 200 wickets.
But to aim at a milestone is one thing and to really achieve it is certainly, something other. Still, looking at the current West Indies side, one that’s fresh from a major setback of having lost both the T20 as well as the ODI series (although rain-affected) to India, it doesn’t seem that the current make up inspires much confidence.
Moreover, a crucial factor that could nicely play into Jadeja’s hands would be the slow wickets of the Caribbean that are suited to his style of bowling.
Over the course of the past few decades, the Caribbean wickets have descended nastily into being slow and banal wickets, having once being bouncy, pacy versions that one saw in the seventies and eighties in a Trinidad, Antigua or Jamaica.
Add to that the misery that the West Indian batsmen conjure in front of spin. Surely, Kohli would want to play Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja together. And once the two bowl in pair, they could attack in tandem.
Apart from the troika of Kraigg Brathwaite- who’s not been playing active cricket for a while, Roston Chase- an accomplished bat in front of spin, and Darren Bravo- who’s truly got a lot to prove, the Windies batsmen don’t exude much confidence against the spin.
Can Ravindra Jadeja test record exploit all of that and make a special memory in the series?