Salute Jadeja’s fight, but Ashwin said-If you take a little risk, then perhaps the result would have been something else
When Team India was on the verge of defeat in the Lord’s Test, Ravindra Jadeja stood till the end. But now Ravichandran Ashwin’s big statement has come out on this innings. He believes that Jadeja should have taken a little risk. Just a little, not too much. But at the same time praising his batting, he said that Jadeja taught generation to play patience.
The third Test played at Lord’s between India and England finally ended with England’s victory, but the debate did not stop even after the match was over. The most discussed is Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten innings in which he scored 61 runs in 181 balls and tried his best to win the match alone.
Now Ravichandran Ashwin has expressed his opinion on this innings and said that Jadeja should have taken a little risk. On Tuesday, July 15, on his YouTube channel, Ashwin said that he was constantly talking to a “big cricketer” during the match, but both believed that if Jadeja took a little risk, the result could have been something else.
Ashwin said, “The way Jaddu played it was amazing. Jaddu showed the entire ‘Gen Bold’ generation that a Test match could be played with patience. But he could take a chance, especially when he was batting with Siraj. Siraj could hit big shots, especially on the leg side. He could plan to attack against the bashir.”
However, Ashwin also said that the pitch was not worth trusting at all. It was difficult to guess the bounce and speed, the fielders from above were all standing on the backfoot. In such a situation, it was not easy to take risk. He also responded to the experts who were saying that Jadeja should have shown more intentions.
Ashwin said, “There are many examples when the batter took the risk and reached the dressing room directly. And I believe that Ben Stokes’s captaincy was also amazing. He said, ‘Want 70 runs? Take one run, win every over and win match’
Remind you that India needed 193 runs to win in the second innings in this match but the entire team was piled on 170. Jadeja remained unbeaten with the last wicket, but the victory remained 22 runs away from him.
