Sir Ravindra Jadeja tribute thread

[sandeep]

19 minutes ago, Gollum said:

What a transformation. I remember cursing him in my college hostel when he got hit for 6 back to back 6s against Australia in the 2010 WT20 in WI. 

Don't remind me of my first time ever watching India play live.   He also dropped a crucial catch in the preceding game against Australia - Watson IIRC, who went on to smack him for a bunch of sixes later on.   To be fair, Dhoni made spinners bowl into the wind that game, that made it easier.  But still.  

[sandeep]

14 minutes ago, chewy said:

3 Players to score 500-plus runs and take 50-plus wickets in a season - Kapil Dev in 1979-80, Mitchell Johnson in 2008-09 and Jadeja in this 2016-17 season. Jadeja has made 556 runs and picked up 68 wickets in 13 matches, both being higher than those of Kapil and Johnson's numbers. Jadeja averages 42.76 with bat and 23.48 with ball.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india-v-australia-2016-17/content/story/1088751.html

 

By season

Player	Mat	Runs	HS	Bat Av	100	Wkts	BBI	Bowl Av	5	Ct	St	Ave Diff	Season
RA Jadeja (INDIA)	13	556	90	42.76	0	71	7/48	22.83	4	10	0	19.93	2016/17
N Kapil Dev (INDIA)	13	535	84	33.43	0	63	7/56	20.25	5	6	0	13.18	1979/80
MG Johnson (AUS)	12	527	123*	35.13	1	60	8/61	25.25	2	3	0	9.88	2008/09

To be fair, the average is boosted by some not outs.   But he's gotten some quality runs for us this season - and the best of the lot was this test match.   A 50 run lead in the opposite direction and we could have easily been chasing 250 on this wicket.   And a very different outcome.  

 

I will be shocked if India win and Jaddu is not MoM.    Should be MoS as well.  

[Sidhoni]

1 hour ago, sandeep said:

[bJaddu played the best test innings of his life here. [/B] Came in when he didn't have the license to just go for broke.  Handled the new ball well defensively in the last few overs of D2 and top scored with 63 that saw the needle move from Aus's favor to India's.  

 

And @The Outsider, you've already been given some reading homework, may want to do that before spouting baseless nonsense that suits your confirmation bias, while you admit yourself that you have hardly seen him bowl.   Not all spinners have to have the same style of bowling to be effective.  Not all left-armers have to clone the Bedi method.    

Lords 50 

[Lord]

Just now, Sidhoni said:

Lords 50 

That was important innings but it was basically collection of hoicks and misses.Here series was on the line and he actually applied himself

[Laaloo]

Glad to be proven wrong. Well played Jadeja. Won us so many matches this home season. 

[sandeep]

5 minutes ago, Sidhoni said:

Lords 50 

 

4 minutes ago, Lord said:

That was important innings but it was basically collection of hoicks and misses.Here series was on the line and he actually applied himself

 

This.

[sensible-indian]

Jaddu has been sensational this season.

 

Today was a supremely clutch series defining knock.

 

Will end it by being both the world's number 1 bowler and number 1 AR.

[sandeep]

1 minute ago, sensible-indian said:

Jaddu has been sensational this season.

 

Today was a supremely clutch series defining knock.

 

Will end it by being both the world's number 1 bowler and number 1 AR.

Really?  I didn't think his batting numbers are good enough to be that high as an AR.  MVP for the series to be sure.  

[sensible-indian]

2 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Really?  I didn't think his batting numbers are good enough to be that high as an AR.  MVP for the series to be sure.  

Ranking wise, he could end up as the number 1 AR.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/rankings/content/page/211270.html

 

63 runs and 4 wickets may lead him to just about eclipse Shakib.

 

It will be a close call. Numbers game.

[sscomp32]

Agree with everything except for player of the season. It's umesh yadav for me.

[sandeep]

34 minutes ago, sensible-indian said:

Ranking wise, he could end up as the number 1 AR.

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/rankings/content/page/211270.html

 

63 runs and 4 wickets may lead him to just about eclipse Shakib.

 

It will be a close call. Numbers game.

Screw the rankings.  Celebrate the clutch player and allround awesomeness of Sir.  #Rajputboy.  

[Laaloo]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

What a transformation. I remember cursing him in my college hostel when he got hit for 6 back to back 6s against Australia in the 2010 WT20 in WI. 

oh that was the washed out game. Wasn't he hit for 6 sixes in 6 balls?

 

Edit:  not washed out

Edited March 27, 2017 by laaloo

[Deleted_User_1]

I knew when times are bad, Sirji will come through. Jai Sirji!!!

[Gollum]

6 minutes ago, dandaroy said:

I knew when times are bad, Sirji will come through. Jai Sirji!!!

How about pheck de Sirji and pheck de India? 

[HippoSucks]

Player of the season has to be Ashwin.

[veer]

I remember ICFers mocking him as 'malnourished'... and calling him Dhoni's pet.. But.. wow.. times have changed.

 

More than anything, I like his fielding style.. the guy is crazy ground fielder. His background story style article on Cricinfo was really impressive.. specially things said by his childhood coach.

[sandeep]

http://www.bcci.tv/videos/id/4574/ind-vs-aus-2017-4th-test-day-3-r-jadeja-press-conference

 

Jadeja on the sledging with Matt Wade.  

Quote

We were making some plans to have dinner together after the game.

 

He was referring to this:

 

http://www.bcci.tv/videos/id/4548/you-talk-i-hit-the-jaddu-wade-war-of-words

Edited March 27, 2017 by sandeep

[PAA-G]

he has been magical.....oops sorry that was sivaramakrishnan!

[CG]

Jadeja has improved a lot under Kumble.

[someone]

He always had high potential. For last many years, I was perhaps one of the very few in this forum who believed in his ability. Many users here simply ridiculed him.