India vs Australia: Ravindra Jadeja, who created havoc with the ball, showed his power with the bat as well, and the Kangaroos were caught in Nagpur.
At the end of the second day of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India took a 144-run lead over Australia in the first innings. In the first innings on Friday, Team India scored 321 runs for 7 wickets. Captain Rohit Sharma was the top scorer with a maximum of 120 runs. Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 66 and Akshar Patel on individual scores of 52 runs. Todd Murphy, who is making his debut for the Kangaroo team, took 5 wickets. Captain Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon took a wicket each.
In this order, Ravindra Jadeja, the all-rounder of Team India, first with the ball and then with the bat, gave a strong answer to the critics. Apart from beating Kapil Dev, he also set many more records to his name. Let’s see that now..
Ravindra Jadeja, who created havoc with the ball in Nagpur, also did wonders with the bat. In the first innings, Jadeja took the first five wickets. After that a half century also came from his bat. With this, Ravindra Jadeja has a huge record in his account.
Ravindra Jadeja became the player with most half-centuries and five wickets in a Test innings for India. Jadeja achieved this feat for the fourth time.
Ravindra Jadeja broke former captain and veteran all-rounder Kapil Dev’s record. Kapil has done this feat 4 times and now Jaddu is ahead of him.
It is known that Ravindra Jadeja was criticized for ball tampering in the first day’s game. On the first day, Jadeja was seen applying pain killer cream on his finger. After that the Australian media criticized Jadeja for tampering. Meanwhile, the controversy ended when the match referee gave a clean chit to the Indian all-rounder.
Ravindra Jadeja scored 49 runs and took 5 wickets in the first innings. He took 5 wickets in 3 consecutive Border-Gavaskar Trophy games played in India.
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