Ravindra Jadeja has been pilloried for his efforts with the ball within the first India versus England Take a look at at Headingley, the place he laboured for practically 50 overs and ended with only one wicket to point out for it. Ben Stokes, who aided his personal downfall by going for an audacious reverse sweep within the second innings with the end line showing shut, was Jadeja’s solely sufferer at Leeds.
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Jadeja’s figures with the ball on the finish of the primary Take a look at learn: 47 overs, 172 runs and one wicket.
With the bat too, Jadeja, one in all India’s senior-most gamers within the XI may handle simply 11 and 25*.
“I couldn’t imagine how poorly Jadeja bowled, actually,” mentioned former England batter Mark Butcher on the Wisden Cricket Weekly Podcast. “I’d likened it to proudly owning a hammer however punching nails in together with your fist as a substitute – not touchdown the ball within the tough in any respect till, mainly, it was too late. That was extraordinary, actually.
“You discuss expertise, and Jadeja has all of the expertise on this planet. Someway, it didn’t appear to click on to him or Rishabh Pant, the keeper, that it is perhaps a good suggestion to not hold lacking the tough all day to the left-handers.”
Butcher then identified how selecting Shardul Thakur had dulled their assault with the ball.
“The problem across the lineup itself… how rather more attention-grabbing may that final day have been had they gone for Kuldeep [Yadav] as a substitute of [Shardul] Thakur, Thakur had had a extremely poor sport till that one over the place he gave India a tiny sniff on the back-end.
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“If you happen to’re not contributing with the bat down there at No.8, you rattling properly be taking wickets, and be within the sport as a bowler for extra of the sport than he was,” he added.
After dropping the primary Take a look at to England at Headingley in Leeds by 5 wickets, India will probably be again in motion on July 2-6 at Edgbaston, Birmingham.