Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja (born 6 December 1988), commonly known as Ravindra Jadeja, is an
India
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n international
cricket
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er. He is an
all-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...
, who
bats
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left-handed and bowls left-arm orthodox spin. He was the captain of the
Chennai Super Kings
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in the
Indian Premier League
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. He represents
Saurashtra in
first-class cricket
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. He is considered as one of the best fielders in the current decade.
Jadeja was vice-captain of the
Indian U-19 cricket team
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The team has won the Und ...
that won the
World Cup
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in
Malaysia
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in
2008
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, under the captaincy of former Indian captain
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli (; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of the India national cricket team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Kohli plays as a right-handed batter for Royal Challe ...
. He made his
ODI debut against
Sri Lanka on 8 February 2009 and scored an unbeaten 60 off 77 balls in that match. However, his Test debut came almost four years later, on 13 December 2012, against
England
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at
Nagpur
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.
Jadeja was bought for $2 million by the
Chennai Super Kings
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at the
2012 IPL Players Auction. He was bought by the
Gujarat Lions
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in the 2016 IPL Players Auction for 9.5 crores after the Chennai Super Kings were banned from the
IPL
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for two seasons. On 22 January 2017, Jadeja became the first Indian left-arm spinner to take 150
One Day International wickets, when he dismissed
Sam Billings
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at
Eden Gardens
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,
Kolkata
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. In March 2017, he became the
top ranked bowler in the world leaving behind
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin () (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a bowling All-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cric ...
who held that position for a long time. He was announced as captain of the
Chennai Super Kings
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IPL franchise, for the
2022 IPL season, succeeding
MS Dhoni. He however stepped down in the middle of the season.
Personal life
Jadeja was born on 6 December 1988 in a
Gujarati
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Rajput
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family in
Navagam Ghed city of
Jamnagar district in
Gujarat
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.
His father Anirudh was a watchman for a private security agency. His father wanted him to become an
Army officer
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Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant off ...
but his interest was in
Cricket
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, he was scared of his father in his childhood.
His mother Lata died in an accident in 2005 and the trauma of his mother's death almost made him quit cricket. His sister Naina is a nurse. He lives in
Jamnagar.
Jadeja married politician
Rivaba Jadeja
Rivaba Ravindrasingh Jadeja(née Rivasingh Hardevsingh Solanki) (born 02 November 1990) is an Indian politician. She is Member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Jamnagar North Assembly constituency as a Member of the Bharatiya Janata P ...
on 17 April 2016. They have a daughter born in June 2017.
Domestic career
Youth career
Jadeja made his first Under-19 appearance for India in 2005 at the age of 16. He was picked in the Indian squad for the
2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. India finished runners-up with Jadeja impressing in the final against Pakistan with a haul of 3 wickets. He was the vice-captain of the victorious Indian team at the
2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup. He played a crucial role with the ball in the tournament, taking 10 wickets in 6 games at an average of 13.
First-class cricket
Jadeja made his first-class debut in the 2006–07 Duleep Trophy. He played for
West Zone in the
Duleep Trophy
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and for
Saurashtra in the
Ranji Trophy.
In 2012, Jadeja became the eighth player in history, and the first Indian player, to score three first-class triple centuries in his career, joining
Don Bradman,
Brian Lara,
Bill Ponsford
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,
Wally Hammond
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,
WG Grace
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,
Graeme Hick
Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean-born former England cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. H ...
and
Mike Hussey
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. His first came in early November 2011 against
Orissa
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, in which he scored 314 off 375 balls. His second came in November 2012 against
Gujarat
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, in which he scored 303 not out. His third came against
Railways
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in December 2012, in which he scored 331 runs in 501 balls. Jadeja reached this milestone at the young age of only 23.
Jadeja became the fifth-fastest player ever to complete the double of 2000 runs and get 200 wickets in Tests, during his 56-run knock vs England in Nottingham.
International career
Jadeja caught the attention of the national selectors with his strong all-round showing in the 2008–09 Ranji Trophy – 42 wickets and 739 runs – and was picked for the ODI series in Sri Lanka. His international debut came in the final match of the series on 8 February 2009 where he scored 60*, although India lost the match. In the 2009 World Twenty20, Jadeja was criticised for not scoring fast enough in India's loss to England. After the incumbent all-rounder
Yusuf Pathan
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suffered a loss of form, Jadeja took his place at No. 7 in the ODI team in late 2009. In the third ODI against Sri Lanka in
Cuttack
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on 21 December 2009, Jadeja was awarded the man of the match award following a haul of four wickets. His best bowling is 4–32.
He made a comeback into the Indian ODI side in the third ODI against England at
The Oval
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in London. Arriving at the crease with India 58–5 after 19 overs, he scored 78, adding 112 with skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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and 59 off only 5.1 overs with
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin () (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a bowling All-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cric ...
to help his side reach 234–7 in 50 overs. He also took 2–42 from his 9 overs and was named "player of the match", but England won the rain-affected game. His performance in the fourth ODI at Lord's was mixed: he gave away four crucial overthrows with a poor throw from the boundary, but then took a catch on the boundary off the last ball.
In the second T20I of the Australian tour in February 2012, Jadeja had figures of 1/16 in 3 overs and effected two
run out
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A run out usually occurs when the batsmen are attempting to run between the wickets, and the fielding team succeed in getting the ball to one wicket be ...
s in the Australian innings. India went on to win the game and Jadeja was awarded Man of the Match, mainly for his fielding effort.
After his impressive performance at the start of Ranji Trophy season 2012–13, when he scored two 300+ scores in 4 matches (4/125 and then 303* against
Gujarat
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at
Surat; 331 and 3/109 against
Railways
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at
Rajkot in the
Ranji Trophy 2012–13), he was called up to join the 15-member India Test team to play the fourth Test against England at
Nagpur
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. In his Test debut against
England
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at Nagpur, he bowled 70 overs and picked 3/117.
During the second ODI in the India-England series at Kochi, Jadeja hit 61 off just 37 balls, which took India to a total of 285. In the second innings, he bowled a spell of 2 for 12 in 7 overs, helping India beat England by 127 runs and level the series 1–1. This performance earned Jadeja the Man of the Match award.
In the historic 4–0 home Test series win against
Australia in February–March 2013, Jadeja took 24 wickets, dismissing the Australian captain
Michael Clarke five out of six times in the series which cemented his place in the team as an
all-rounder
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, despite not contributing much with the bat. His seven-wicket haul, including a five-for in the second innings of the final Test match, earned him the Man of the Match award. He played an important role for India in lifting the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. He was the highest wicket taker of the tournament with 12 wickets, which won him the Golden Ball. He made 33* with bat and took 2 wickets in the final against England. He was also named as part of the 'Team of the Tournament' by the ICC and ESPNCricinfo.
He was ranked as the No.1 bowler in ODI Cricket by the ICC in August 2013. Jadeja is the first India bowler to top the rankings since
Anil Kumble
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, who topped the table in 1996. He is the fourth India bowler after
Kapil Dev
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,
Maninder Singh and Kumble to be ranked No. 1.
Jadeja scored his maiden test fifty on 20 July 2014, playing against England and saving the match for
India
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who were struggling at 235/7. He made 68 runs from just 57 balls. His partnership of 99 with
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
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helped India set
England
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a target of 319.
Jadeja was selected for the
2015 Cricket World Cup
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in Australia and New Zealand despite not being fully fit due to a shoulder injury. He took 9 wickets in 8 games. His returns with the bat were modest, scoring just 57 runs from 5 innings. India went on to lose against Australia in the semi-final. After his poor performance in the next ODI series in Bangladesh, he was dropped from the Indian team.
Jadeja returned strongly in the next Ranji season (2015–16), where he picked up 38 wickets from 4 games and 215 runs, including 3 50+ scores. His strong performances were rewarded with selection for the Indian test side facing South Africa at home. Jadeja helped his team achieve victory, by taking 23 wickets in 4 games. He scored 109 runs in the series, which included crucial knocks lower down the order. Jadeja was included in Indian limited-overs side touring Australia to play 5 ODIs and 3 T20Is. In ODIs, Jadeja bowled economically in a series where more than 3000 runs were scored in 5 matches. He took 3 wickets at an economy rate of 5.35. He was the second highest wicket-taker in T20Is, picking up 5 wickets in 3 games. In the second game of the series, Jadeja took a blinder off his own bowling to get the important wicket of Shane Watson and he also ran Aaron Finch out, who was batting on 74 at that moment.
He featured in all four tests against the visiting Australian side. He bagged 25 wickets and made two half centuries down the order, which earned him the player of the match as well as the player of the series award in the latest concluded series on 28 March 2017.
He along with
Ravichandran Ashwin
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became the first pair of spinners to be jointly ranked number 1 bowler in ICC Test Rankings history. On 5 August 2017, Jadeja became the fastest left-arm bowler to reach 150 wickets in terms of number of Tests played (32).
On 5 October 2018, he scored his first century in Tests. In March 2019, during the second ODI
against Australia, Jadeja became the third cricketer for India to score 2,000 runs and take 150 wickets in ODIs. In April 2019, he was named in
India's squad for the
2019 Cricket World Cup
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.
In October 2019, in the first Test
against South Africa, Jadeja took his 200th wicket in Test cricket.
In September 2021, Jadeja was named in India's squad for the
2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
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. His spin-bowling partner on many occasions, R Ashwin, was also named in the squad after 4 years out of the white-ball team.
On 5 March 2022, in a Test match against
Sri Lanka, Jadeja broke the 35-year-old record of
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj (Pronunciation: əpiːl deːʋ born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer. He was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, and was named by '' Wisden'' as the Indian Cricketer of the Cen ...
by scoring 175
*. He made the record of the highest score by a No. 7 or below.
He then took 5/41 and then 4/46 in the two innings, registering match figures of 9/87 to help India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs.
He scored his first overseas
century in the fifth Test match of the
2022 Indian tour of England.
In July 2022, he was named as India's vice-captain for the away ODI series
against the West Indies.
Indian Premier League
![Ravindra Jadeja](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Ravindra_Jadeja.jpg)
Ravindra Jadeja was selected by the
Rajasthan Royals
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for the
inaugural season of the
Indian Premier League
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(IPL) in 2008, and played an important role in their victory (Royals defeated
Chennai Super Kings
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in the final). Jadeja scored 135 runs from 14 matches at a strike rate of 131.06, his best score being 36* against
Kings XI Punjab
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. He did even better
in 2009, scoring 295 runs at a strike rate of 110.90, and conceding fewer than 6.5 runs per over.
Shane Warne
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, the captain of Rajasthan Royals, referred to Jadeja as a "superstar in the making". Warne also nicknamed him "Rockstar".
Jadeja sat out the
2010 IPL
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because of a ban arising from contractual irregularities.
In 2011, he was bought by the
Kochi Tuskers Kerala
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for $950,000. Kochi Tuskers were terminated from the IPL in September 2011, and in the
2012 IPL player auction, Jadeja was bought by
Chennai Super Kings
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for $2 million (approx. Rs. 9.8 crore) after a tie-breaker with
Deccan Chargers
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who bid the same amount. Jadeja was the most expensive player of the year's auction. He won the Man of the Match award in the second match of
the season against Deccan Chargers for his all-round performance (48 runs off 29 balls, 5/16 in 4 overs).
For his performances in 2014, he was named in the Cricinfo CLT20 XI.
In a
Mother's Day
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game during
IPL 2015, Jadeja put in a fine spin bowling performance in
Chennai
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; he took four wickets for 11 runs with a brilliant spell of bowling against Rajasthan Royals.
In the 19th match of the
2021 Indian Premier League
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, Jadeja hit 62*, including a joint-highest ever 37 runs in the last over bowled by
Harshal Patel. He later took 3/13 in his four overs and was named Man of the Match.
Jadeja was appointed as the captain for the Chennai Super Kings ahead of the
2022 IPL season, replacing
MS Dhoni. He however stepped down in the middle of the season, handing over the captaincy back to Dhoni.
He was later ruled out of the tournament due to a rib injury. Jadeja and the franchise later unfollowed each other on
Instagram, leading to reports about a rift. But the
CEO of CSK maintained that he was ruled out on medical advice, and denied allegations of the rift.
Media image
Sunil Gavaskar
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said in March 2013 that Ravindra Jadeja, along with
Cheteshwar Pujara, was a role model for youngsters.
Jadeja's contributions in India's 4–0 test series win over Australia in February and March 2013 were praised in the media,
and Gavaskar called him one of the architects of the win.
Jadeja's dominance of Clarke was also praised in the media. Jadeja was named ''Player of the Week'' by the portal Cricket World after the end of the fourth test.
Since his performance at the
2009 ICC World Twenty20 event, Jadeja has been a consistent target of sarcasm and jokes on cricket portals and by Indian cricket fans.
On Twitter and Facebook, he is jokingly referred to as ''Sir Ravindra Jadeja'' since an online joke calling him the same went viral.
When Jadeja was out clean bowled for 16 while not offering a shot in the February 2013 Chennai test against Australia, a cricket portal described his dismissal as "Jadeja falls 284 runs short of what would have been a fourth first-class triple-century".
Following his good performance against Australia in the 2013 test series, there was a flurry of ''Jadeja jokes'' on Twitter comparing him to
Rajinikanth. His Wikipedia article was temporarily vandalized to mock him.
In April 2013,
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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,
Suresh Raina
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and
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin () (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team as a bowling All-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-break, he plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic cric ...
, teammates of Jadeja in
Chennai Super Kings
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, tweeted several ''Jadeja jokes'' on Twitter, in one of which Dhoni referred to him as ''Sri Sri Pandit Sir Lord Ravindra Jadeja''.
In response, Jadeja said in April 2013 that it was a joke which everybody was enjoying, and that he had no problem with the prefix ''Sir''.
For his flamboyancy with bat, ball and while fielding, Jadeja is often nicknamed 'Rockstar', as he was originally called by Shane Warne. His IPL jersey has the name 'Jaddu' on the back rather than Jadeja, and Dhoni can often be heard calling him this from behind the stumps. Jadeja's sword celebration has been a popular feature of world cricket over the years, as he usually brings this out after scoring a 50 or a 100. Though, he has often been criticised for his caste reference regarding the sword celebration.
During the
2019 Cricket World Cup
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, commentator
Sanjay Manjrekar criticised Jadeja by calling him a 'bits and pieces player'. The former apologised after Jadeja's performance at the tournament.
Awards
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ICC ODI Team of the Year
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: 2013, 2016
*
Madhavrao Scindia Award for most wickets in
Ranji Trophy: 2008–09
*Ranked 1st in
ICC Top 10 Test all-rounders (2021)
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Arjuna Award :
2019
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References
External links
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Ravindra Jadejas profile page on ''
Wisden.com'' ()
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1988 births
Indian cricketers
India Test cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
India Twenty20 International cricketers
Saurashtra cricketers
West Zone cricketers
Rajasthan Royals cricketers
Chennai Super Kings cricketers
Kochi Tuskers Kerala cricketers
India Blue cricketers
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Living people
Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2019 Cricket World Cup
Gujarat Lions cricketers
Recipients of the Arjuna Award
Gujarati people
Indian Hindus