“It is not that the player is not aware of the criticism” – Irfan Pathan Looft Ravindra Jadeja’s knock in Eng vs Ind 2025 2nd test

Former India player Irfan Pathan has praised Ravindra Jadeja for scoring a crucial half century in the second test against England. He noted that the spin-bowling all-rounder would have been aware of the criticism he received for his failure to use the rough effectively on the last day of the previous test.

Jadeja scored 89 points of 137 deliveries when India 587 was excluded in their first innings in Birmingham. England was 77/3 on stumps on day 2 (Thursday, July 3), with the visitors with 510 points.

During a discussion about Sony SportsPathan praised Jadeja to overcome the pressure he would have felt because of his Under-Par performance with the ball in the latest innings of the first test.

“The shots he played off the back foot, eSpecary the fours he hit Between Cover and mid-off, Were Difficult Shots. You can lose your your wicket playing shots er the ball is slightly quicker or bounces more. Because the ball was more Towards the body.

“He just got an outer edge yesterday (Wednesday), when a four went between Gully and Slip, but the control he showed of it, and the knock he played was necessary for Ravindra Jadeja. Many people, including me, had spoken about his bowling on the fifth day on the fifth day, and it is not that the player was not a spulded, and the team was told and the team and the team. to it.

Ravindra Jadeja registered figures of 1/104 in 24 overs in the second innings of England of the first test in Leeds. The hosts chased a 371-run target with five wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the series of five games.

“It was a crucial knock of this match and the context of the entire series” – Ajay Jadeja on Ravindra Jadeja’s innings in Eng vs Ind 2025 2nd test

In the same discussion, the former India-Opener Ajay Jadeja that the knock of Ravindra Jadeja was extremely important, which emphasized that the batting of the lower order was the care area of ​​the visitors on the way to the second test.

“It was a crucial knock of this competition and the context of the entire series because this was the stage so that you made three changes after the first test. Back-to-back wickets had fallen when he came in. When there are difficult thoughts within a team, and that will be you at the same stage, if a team is not going to be improved at the moment.

Although recognition that the all-rounder would be disappointed to fall at 11 century, the cricket player-in-commentator added that the double-century partnership between him and Shubman Gill (269 from 387) would have changed the atmosphere of the dressing room.

“This knock was therefore very important. He scored 89 and will be disappointed because he scored a century here the last time, but that is just a few. He also scored runs for his bowling. The 200-run partnership came to a position where the team made itself seven days before the game. This will completely change the feeling in the dressing room,” Ajay Jadeja.

Ravindra Jadeja joined Shubman Gill in the middle when India was reduced to 211/5. The duo added 203 runs for the sixth Wicket before Gill and Washington Sundar (42 out of 103) merged a 144-run seventh-Wicket partnership to bring visitors to a mammoth total.