Ravindra Jadeja

105 articles tagged with "Ravindra Jadeja"

Aug 27, 2026

Starc’s 6 for 12 has made him the No.1 Test bowler at 36, and Bumrah is 10 points behind

Mitchell Starc’s ten wickets in Mackay have taken him to the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings for the first time, ending Jasprit Bumrah’s long spe...

Aug 25, 2026

Sri Lanka are 39 runs short of the follow-on, and rain ended day three with two wickets left

India declared on 503 for 9 in Colombo and then watched Sri Lanka claw back to within sight of safety before the weather intervened at the SSC.

Aug 23, 2026

Padikkal has a hundred in each Test of this series, and Pant retired hurt on 3 after a blow to the wrist

India closed the first day in Colombo on 300 for 5. Devdutt Padikkal made 117, his second Test century in successive matches, and Rishabh Pant left th...

Aug 22, 2026

Kuldeep skipped Friday’s net session in Colombo, and Saransh Jain bowled through it

India settle on an XI for Sunday’s second Test, and the spin slot alongside Ravindra Jadeja and Manav Suthar is the last thing left to decide. Kuldeep...

Aug 19, 2026

Suthar’s 10 for 131 wins Galle, and no India bowler has taken 10 in Sri Lanka for less

India beat Sri Lanka by 165 runs on the final day at Galle to go 1-0 up with one Test to play. Manav Suthar, playing his second Test, took six on the...

Aug 17, 2026

Sri Lanka were 90 for 5 at Galle, and Dinusha’s maiden hundred still left them 178 behind

India took all five wickets to fall in the morning session at Galle, then spent the rest of the third day watching a 25-year-old make his first Test c...

Aug 14, 2026

India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant

Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...

Aug 9, 2026

India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it

India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...

Aug 8, 2026

Sri Lanka are giving away the India Tests, and the Lanka Premier League is why

Free entry at Galle and the SSC covers the grass banks, not the stands. For the biggest series on the home calendar, that is a decision worth reading...

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 4, 2026

India arrive in Colombo with seven spinners, and their openers spent the week facing Mumbai’s

Four specialist spinners in the squad, three more travelling as net bowlers, and a week of spin-focused batting in Bandra for KL Rahul and Yashasvi Ja...

Aug 4, 2026

Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest

Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 29, 2026

Subhadeep Ghosh replaces T Dilip as India’s fielding coach before the Sri Lanka Tests

India dropped five catches in a single T20I in Harare this week. The man hired to fix that is a 57-year-old from Digboi with 17 first-class games behi...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...

Jul 25, 2026

India’s Test squad for Sri Lanka lands on Tuesday, with Bumrah’s knee the big call

Ajit Agarkar’s panel has three days to work out how to handle Jasprit Bumrah’s knee and Washington Sundar’s hamstring before a two-Test tour that open...

Jun 22, 2026

India name ODI squad for England as Kohli awaits a fitness verdict

India have made Shubman Gill captain and recalled Jasprit Bumrah for the England ODIs, with Virat Kohli included subject to a fitness test on June 22.

May 24, 2026

Archer 3-17, Jurel 38: Rajasthan beat Mumbai by 30 at Wankhede to lock the IPL 2026 fourth seed

Rajasthan Royals posted 205 for 8 and bowled Mumbai out for 175 for 9 at Wankhede on Sunday, taking the fourth playoff seat and setting up an Eliminat...

May 23, 2026

MI host RR at Wankhede on Sunday with the last IPL 2026 playoff seat in Rajasthan’s hands

Rajasthan Royals can confirm the fourth seed by beating Mumbai Indians on Sunday afternoon. Anything else hands the Eliminator slot back to Punjab Kin...

May 19, 2026

RR need a Jaipur win against LSG to stay in the IPL 2026 playoff hunt

A third straight defeat has left Rajasthan Royals needing to win both their remaining IPL 2026 fixtures, starting with an already-eliminated Lucknow S...

Apr 23, 2026

Jadeja’s 43 and Archer’s 3 for 20 defend 159 as RR beat LSG by 40 runs at Ekana

Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 43 pushed Rajasthan Royals to 159 and Jofra Archer’s 3 for 20 killed the chase as RR beat Lucknow Super Giants by 40 runs i...

Apr 14, 2026

CSK’s trade of Jadeja and Curran for Sanju Samson is already looking like a masterstroke

Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 115 at Chepauk has turned a bold piece of IPL 2026 trade business into one of the smartest moves Chennai Super Kings have made...

Mar 31, 2026

CSK’s opening night laid bare a problem that goes deeper than Dhoni’s calf

Chennai Super Kings were bowled out for 127 in Guwahati on Monday, their lowest total in an IPL season opener since 2014. The easy explanation is that...