Ravindra Jadeja: Ravindra Jadeja, a senior all-rounder, believes it is unreasonable to assess the current Indian squad on the basis of one or two defeats after three years of consistently good performances at home and overseas.
Highlights
- Ravindra Jadeja said team shouldn’t be judged after 1 or 2 bad outings
- Jadeja claimed 3 wickets in India’s 8-wicket win vs Scotland
- India will next play against Namibia on November 8 in Dubai
Ravindra Jadeja, a senior all-rounder, believes it is unreasonable to assess the current Indian squad on the basis of one or two defeats after three years of consistently good performances at home and overseas. Jadeja was asked about his skipper Virat Kohli’s claim that the team wasn’t “brave enough” against New Zealand in their second game, which they lost by eight wickets. Jadeja was named ‘Player of the Match’ for his 3 for 15 against Scotland.
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Ravindra Jadeja said after India’s 8-wicket win over Scotland:
“If you look at it that way, then in last two to three years, we have played some really good cricket, whether it’s in India or overseas. So it’s not fair to judge us on basis of one or two games,”
“In T20 cricket, any team can have an odd bad game or two but you can’t think too much about those defeats. You have to move on and think about the opportunities ahead. We will take the positives from those two games and look to play well in future games,” he added.
On the day, India used three specialist spinners, but Jadeja maintained his role was the same as it had been for years.
“My role was the same. I looked to take wickets in middle overs and bowl-like how I bowl usually. No change in plans just because we were playing Scotland. It was a simple basic plan. Look to bowl in good areas and let the wicket do the rest,” he added.
“In the first innings of these games, the ball is stopping and gripping a bit off the surface. If you bat in the second innings, dew makes the track flat and batters then find it very easy,” he said.
“When you are batting first on these tracks, we are not getting the starts we are used to and when the start is a poor one, it becomes difficult to come back in middle overs. For that, winning toss becomes important and then you can opt to bat second,” Jadeja said.
He admitted that dew has become a game-changer in the ongoing T20 World Cup. With the same squad that seemed disoriented while batting. The first innings often seem like a different team while the second.
India’s chase of 86 in 6.3 overs on Friday night was a case in point.
“We didn’t press the panic button because as I said earlier, you will have a few bad matches in T20s. And especially in these conditions toss has become important as dew is becoming a game-changer. If the team that bats first in one game gets to chase in another. You can see the difference,” he said.
He ended the press conference on a cheeky note when a scribe asked:
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