After the defeat at Lord’s, he said a big thing about Ravindra Jadeja. (Photo-PTI)
In the second innings of the third Test match against England, Team India had lost 8 wickets for 112 runs at one time. After this, the team all -rounder Ravindra Jadeja along with the tail batsmen Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj had brought India very close to the victory. With this, the England team was very tension, but Shoaib Bashir gave the team a great victory by dismissing Mohammad Siraj. During this, Ravindra Jadeja was unbeaten after scoring 61 runs. Now former Indian cricketer Balwinder Singh Sandhu attacked Ravindra Jadeja and alleged that Jadeja was scared while chasing the run.
What did Balwinder Singh Sandhu say?
Balwinder Singh Sandhu, a member of the 1983 World Cup winning team, has surrounded Ravindra Jadeja on the defeat of Team India in Lord’s Test match. In his column in Mid Day, he wrote that in the last moments he came under pressure. Perhaps this is why Jadeja could not trust Bumrah and most of them were keeping the strike with him, while he should have trusted Bumrah and he should also give him a chance to score runs.
After falling eight wickets for 112 runs, Jadeja, along with Bumrah, had an important partnership of 35 runs in 22 overs. In this, Bumrah scored only 5 runs off 54 balls. Balwinder recalled Jadeja’s under-19 days in NCA, saying that he was quite matured from a young age, but I think the fear of failure did not allow him to trust his tail batsmen in Lord’s.
Jadeja is a clever cricketer
He said that Ravindra Jadeja is a player that I have known from his under-19 days at the National Cricket Academy. Even at that time, he showed more maturity than his age. He is a clever cricketer, remains calm under pressure, but this time the fear of failure or the pressure of not relying on the tail batsmen dominated him. Jadeja scored an unbeaten 61 runs in 181 balls in 181 balls of the third Test match.
Bumrah should have trusted
Recalling the dramatic end of Lord’s Test, Sandhu said that Jadeja could have trusted Bumrah a little more, especially when he was defense so firmly. He believes that instead of taking a single on the fourth ball, Jadeja could complete the work by handling himself, especially when the fielding was good and there were two balls left in the over.
