Sir Ravindra Jadeja is on a roll. After the fans, its CSK team mates also address Jadeja as Sir Jadeja and they are now trying to replace Rajni jokes with Jadeja jokes. Any number of jokes on Jadeja are not enough and seeing him in the national team makes me go berserk and I can then barely control on the expletives I wish to bestow on him.
Today Sir Jadeja got to bowl full quota of overs and he also took a wicket of Manan Vohra. That was a sh**t of a ball and Vohra could hit it only in the hands of fielder. Cricinfo acknowledged it.
"Jadeja to Vohra, OUT, that's a rubbish ball, so short, and Vohra went back and pulled in the air towards cow corner, where he had hit his previous boundary. But Dhoni had moved a fielder there, and Hussey settled under the ball and caught it a couple of yards inside the rope. He could have hit it anywhere and he picked out the fielder"
Thanks to MS Dhoni's captaincy who would ensure he would do everything to update wickets column under his team's most overrated and expensive player. And Jadeja got a wicket of a rubbish ball. That is how Jadeja gets wickets.
Luck, rapport with influential people where it matters and less of performance. That is Sir Jadeja for you. 24 wickets in 4 tests vs Australia and dismissals of Clarke is something he will feast upon long. And since Clarke is best Test batsman in contemporary cricket, Jadeja's name shall always be mentioned in same breath.
Before this Test series he made 2 triple centuries in domestic cricket, which fast tracked his place in the Test team. But every one forgets to mark where he made those centuries. On one of the flattest wicket in the country in Rajkot, those runs does not matter. His batting was rubbish in the tests. But all of that did not matter. He was 2nd highest wicket taker in the Australia test series.
In IPL 2012 as most expensive buy of the year, he made 191 runs in 19 games with an average of 16 and a strike rate of 127 and took 12 wickets in 19 games, 5 of those coming in a single game vs Deccan Chargers. That means 7 wickets in other 18 games.
Certainly not worth 2 million dollars. But in the end does not matter. He got to be in Srinivasan, BCCI chief's good books and from there on his place in all formats of game in Indian team is guaranteed. Performances, attitude and all. That does not matter.
By the way Chennai Super Kings got to winning ways after losing the first one. And today it was Michael Hussey and M Vijay's chance to shine brighter and brighter. Together they did and won by 10 wickets.
