‘Jadeja doesn’t care about team politics; he is just focused on his game’: Ex-teammates on how Ravindra Jadeja is still going strong at international level | Cricket News
Sometime around 2018 during a tour of England when he turned all classical in his batting, Ravindra Jadeja transformed himself into a Test batsman. In the years to come, his white ball cricket slowly began to feel the effects . There were sporadic burst of performances since 2021, but of late especially, Axar Patel has gone ahead of him in the pecking order. He is playing in this ODI series against New Zealand as the team management want to keep Axar Patel fresh and injury-free for the T20 world cup. Yet, only a fool can say Jadeja’s ODI days are over. People who know him closely at Rajkot in Gujarat, the venue for second ODI against New Zealand, aren’t surprised about their Bapu’s competitive streak and willingness to do what is needed to level up. Bhushan Chauhan, a former Saurashtra opener and team-mate, remembers a teenaged Ravindra Jadeja. “He was more mature than his age. We understand what we had to do when we were at the last stage of our career but he knew …
