Ravindra Jadeja led India to victory with his brilliant batting and bowling.
new Delhi, The first Test match played between India and Sri Lanka (India vs Sri Lanka 1st Test Match) in Mohali was won by the host team. In the first test match, India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs. Ravindra Jadeja has played an important role in this victory of India. Jadeja scored an unbeaten 175 in the first innings of the match. Apart from this, Jadeja took a total of 9 wickets in the first test match.
Ravindra Jadeja led India to victory with his brilliant batting and bowling. However, Jadeja remained one wicket away from making a world record in this match. Had Jadeja taken one more wicket in this match, he would have become the first cricketer in the world to take 150+ runs and 10 wickets in a Test. Till now no player in the history of Test match has been able to achieve the feat of taking 150 or more runs and 10 wickets.
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In the Mohali Test, Ravindra Jadeja scored an unbeaten 175 while batting first. At the same time, he took 5 wickets for 41 runs in the first innings and took 4 wickets for 46 runs in the second innings. Let us tell you that, Allan Davidson, Ian Botham, Imran Khan and Shakib Al Hasan managed to get close to this record.
- Australian all-rounder Davidson took 124 runs and 11 wickets against West Indies in 1960.
- In 1980, Ian Botham of England scored 13 wickets and a total of 114 runs against India.
- In 1983, Imran Khan scored 111 runs in addition to taking 11 wickets against India in Faisalabad.
- Shakib Al Hasan took 10 wickets in the Khulna Test match in the year 2014 apart from adding a total of 143 runs.
During the Mohali Test match, Ravindra Jadeja also made a special record during the innings of 175 not out. Ravindra Jadeja became the highest run-scorer in Test cricket while batting at number seven or below. In this case, Jadeja
Breaks Kapil Dev’s 35 year old record. Kapil Dev scored 163 runs in the year 1986 against Sri Lanka at number seven in Kanpur.