Ravindra Jadeja: Ravindra Jadeja is one of India’s best spin all-rounders in the longer format, he has played an important role in winning many matches for India with his bat and ball. Jadeja is known for scoring long runs in domestic cricket. This is the reason why Jadeja has achieved the feat of scoring the maximum number of triple centuries in Ranji Trophy.
In this article, we will know about one such inning of Jadeja in which he batted at the crease for 707 minutes. Actually, this match was played between Saurashtra and Railways in Ranji Trophy in December 2012. In which Saurashtra won the toss and decided to bat first. However, Saurashtra did not have a good start and their first three wickets went to the pavilion for 66 runs only. But after that ‘The Ravindra Jadeja Show’ starts.
Ravindra Jadeja became the wall
Jadeja tried to control the innings in the beginning but Railways bowlers were taking wickets at regular intervals. The result of which was that Saurashtra lost 6 wickets for just 260 runs. It seemed that Saurashtra team would be reduced to within 300 runs. But after that Jadeja takes charge and starts taking the innings forward along with Kamlesh Makwana.
Jadeja scored a triple century
Meanwhile, Jadeja also completes his double century and increases the pace of runs, Kamlesh also supports Jadeja very well and in the meantime, Jadeja completes his triple century. However, while trying to score runs faster, Jadeja gets out. Jadeja faced 501 balls in his innings and during this he hit 29 fours and 7 sixes. Kamlesh also gets out as soon as he completes his century and Saurashtra team declares its innings at 576 runs.
the match was drawn
Hardik Rathod opens his paw on behalf of Railways. Almost all the batsmen from Railways get starts but they are not able to convert their starts into big innings due to which the Railways team gets restricted to 335 runs. Saurashtra team gives follow on to Railways but it is of no use because in the last few minutes, Railways team scores 27 runs without losing any wicket and the match ends in a draw.
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