Another match, another brilliant performance from Sir Ravindra Jadeja: Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja gave a powerful performance to take the target of team India to 161 by the end of their innings during the first T20I match of the ongoing series between India and Australia.
Before the game kickstarted, Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision turned out to be great for the Australians as their bowlers gave a tough time to the Indian batting line-up.
The opening batsmen failed to give a solid start to the game as Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed on 1. Following him, the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli also made his way towards the pavilion. He was dismissed off Mitchell Swepson’s delivery on 9 runs.
However, KL Rahul held the game tight and scored a half-century as he formed a decent partnership with Sanju Samson, who scored 23 off 15 runs. As the wickets kept falling, Indian all-rounder, Ravindra Jadeja came to India’s rescue and gave a strong finish to the game with his blockbuster knock.
Jadeja is on song here!#AUSvIND #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/I9DVsLiOJk
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 4, 2020
Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten and took 23 runs off the 19th overs bowled by Josh Hazlewood to help India take the score a bit high. He scored 44 off 23 balls, smashing 5 fours and 1 six with a strike rate of 191.30.
Meanwhile, the fans on social media were thrilled after the brilliant performance of Sir Jadeja. Fans and cricketers are applauding his performance with amazing tweets and posts dedicated to him. There are many who are comparing the performance of Jadeja to that of vintage ‘MS Dhoni’.
Here, check out the reactions of Twitterati on this:
Jadeja playing like vintage dhoni. OP #AUSvIND
— Shash (@_Shakti_maan) December 4, 2020
Took some time for #jadeja batting to come alive at the international stage but now he is batting as good as anyone lower down order. #AUSvsIND
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) December 4, 2020
other cricketer’s ravindra jadeja’s
bat with cover bat with cover pic.twitter.com/gBKjdsTGzE— Neeche Se Topper (@NeecheSeTopper) December 4, 2020
Bow down to Sir Ravindra Jadeja 🙇♀ pic.twitter.com/iKXQF7GLbM
— Aparna (@AppeFizzz) December 4, 2020
Manjrekar in commetry panel after seeing performance of Jadeja … #AUSvsIND pic.twitter.com/AUMubk0W5G
— ??
(@Samcasm7) December 4, 2020
Petition to change Jadeja’s role to batting all-rounder in every cricket site.
— Heisenberg
(@internetumpire) December 4, 2020
What a knock Jadeja – India was down and out with 92 for 5 from 13.5 overs then he smashed unbeaten 44 runs from just 23 balls including 5 fours & 1 sixes. pic.twitter.com/7pvgu94afd
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 4, 2020
Jadeja to bat. Chahal to bowl. Best of both worlds. ??
On a much serious note—hope Jadeja is okay. Concussions must never be taken too lightly. #AusvInd
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) December 4, 2020
Sanjay Manjrekar called Jadeja as “Batting all-rounder”. That is the success of Ravi Jadeja in limited overs. He has improved, improved a lot.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 4, 2020