Ranji Trophy: Jaydev Unadkat acts on sister Bheera’s advice, overcomes IPL blues

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AFTER being sold for 11.5 crores to Rajasthan Royals to become the most expensive player in the last IPL season, Jaydev Unadkat kept saying that he took too much pressure on himself. He wanted to become the bowler of the match in every game and didn’t realize the pressure made him try too hard and fail. Bowlers like Khaleel Ahmed went past him in the India radar. “I wanted to get rid of these things — the selection, the hopes, the pressure of going there and performing daily. I have passed that low point now,” he says.

 

On Saturday, Unadkat bounced back with a 7-wicket haul for Saurashtra in their opening Ranji game against Chattisgarh at Khanderi. “I am top of the world!” he laughs. He shares how he beat the IPL blues and worked hard to come back with help from his sister Bheera and his friend Shobha Putra, an IPS officer. While his sister told him why was he taking so much pressure as “baaki log hain na team mein (there are other people also in the team, right?),” the IPS officer shared how she handles pressure in her work. “She told me how she deals with it but also said how she loves her job despite all the pressure. That love is important,” Unadkat recalls. “It was simple things like that helped me. I realised that the feeling good is most important – that determines your approach and attitude. These things will not last long – I may play for 10 years in all; so its important to enjoy the current situation.”

The last time he played for India was in March in a tri-nation tournament in Sri Lanka that also had Bangladesh. “I was taking too much pressure on myself. All that auction thing, the big money. I didn’t realize what was happening. The only thing which I manage to do well before the season was to get out of that attitude. I was expecting too much from myself and that is why I couldn’t do my best. You need a clear mindset, you can’t say I will be stand out daily; that pressure makes it difficult. I was not able to do it and got frustrated at times,” he says.

 

Some of the trolling he got on the internet was so harsh and rude that they can’t even be printed here. He was mocked and ridiculed. In the previous edition, in 2017 IPL, he had starred with 24 wickets with a best of 5/30 and at a great economy rate of 7.02. Then he was the third highest wicket taker in triangular tournament in Sri Lanka this March, with seven wickets in four games. Life was looking good but the blinds came down soon in the IPL where he managed only 11 wickets from 15 games at an economy rate of 9.65.

The post-IPL chats with sister and his friend, and the times spent with his family made him realise the errors of his ways. “Such things will not come from team mates because they understand what kind of expectation we player go through. I was playing each game as if I was giving an exam. The burden came with the big money coming in during IPL. The hype, in that flow of things, maybe I didn’t realize. I only realized later that am taking too much pressure on myself.”

Things does look difficult for him with respect to coming back to the Indian team. He says many people he meets bring up the topic of Khaleel Ahmed. “That he is your new competition, they say. But I never look at that way. There were times when India had two-three left-arm seamers playing at a same time in the team. He is not only the competition, it’s a group which is competing. I had ups and down in my career, the situation is not new,” he points out.

Instead of fretting, he has done the hard yards in the gym, focussing on getting fitter. “Trying to get those muscles in his legs. It has paid off. Fast bowling is about how hard you train. I bowled a 10 overs spell and two seven-over spells today. For me that is the result of training. I will push more now on training. Sab theek hoga aage, (Everything will get better in future).” At Rajkot: Saurashtra 475 all out vs Chhattisgarh 315/ 8

 

[Tendulkar1996]

Useless trundler will remian useless trundler.Hope i never see him anywhere near the indian team again bowling 3 cutters per over.Poor man's version of chaminda vaas when he was 35 plus and still playing.

[beetle]

RR will read and realise...arre..yeh bhi to hai...isse release karte hain, 11.5 crore ka player.....

 

[LordPrabhzy]

Bruh no one cares

[express bowling]

4 hours ago, Switchblade said:

Some of the trolling he got on the internet was so harsh and rude that they can’t even be printed here. He was mocked and ridiculed. ....  the blinds came down soon in the IPL where he managed only 11 wickets from 15 games at an economy rate of 9.65.

 

 

Edited November 4, 2018 by express bowling

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53 minutes ago, beetle said:

RR will read and realise...arre..yeh bhi to hai...isse release karte hain, 11.5 crore ka player.....

 

Don’t be surprised if he will be sent to Csk 

[speedheat]

If only his sister had inspired him to take spin bowling instead, he would have had better career inspite of getting trolled left right and center.

Thing is that you have to stop at one point when you are not good enough.

I still remember when I was in 5th standard I took part in drawing competition in school and secured 3rd place although that was a fluke and I was pathetic  my cousin sis inspired n praised me so much that I grew delusions in my mind but as I grew older I realized how weird my drawings were and ultimately gave up on my interest on art.

[Global.Baba]

5 hours ago, Switchblade said:

Some of the trolling he got on the internet was so harsh and rude that they can’t even be printed here. He was mocked and ridiculed. 

@The Realist 

 

[zen]

Winning mentality players such as Bhuvi, Udankat, Rahane, etc should join CSK

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1 hour ago, Global.Baba said:

@The Realist 

 

That’s what I thought as well  but he doesn’t troll he lays the Smackdown in brutal way.

[The Realist]

7 hours ago, Global.Baba said:

@The Realist 

 

He's just lacking in all the skills necessary to be an average bowler. And his ridiculous transfer must have been part of a money laundering scheme.