Jadeja needs to raise his game on home turf

The Niranjan Shah Stadium astatine Rajkot has been Ravindra Jadeja’s location crushed for a 4th of a century.

But it’s a antithetic homecoming for Jadeja this clip around. Having retired from the T20Is and recalled to the ODI set-up astatine the disbursal of Axar Patel, the 37-year-old volition person to marque a important publication to consolidate his presumption successful the format.

In the 4 ODIs India has played since his instrumentality to the 50-over format successful November, Jadeja made captious contributions with the bat against South Africa earlier having an unusual nonaccomplishment against the Kiwis successful Vadodara connected Sunday. But it’s his bowling that has fto him down. He has picked up a solitary wicket astatine an mean of 213 and an system complaint of 6.26.

For a bowler with immaculate control, Jadeja volition cognize that helium hasn’t lived up to the imaginable truthful acold this location season. No wonderment past that the seasoned all-rounder not lone had a little stint with the willow connected Tuesday but besides rolled his limb over.

India’s batting manager Sitanshu Kotak, who was Jadeja’s elder teammate for Saurashtra, backed the southpaw to travel bully during Wednesday’s 2nd ODI.

“Ravindra has already played here, truthful it’s large for him to beryllium successful Rajkot,” Kotak said. “A batch of enactment for him obviously. I don’t deliberation I should beryllium talking astir anyone’s future. I volition inactive archer you that Ravindra is fit, helium is performing and arsenic agelong helium is performing and enjoying the game, immoderate subordinate would privation to play and bash good for India and the team”.