IND Vs Eng: After Lord’s defeat, Sourav Ganguly makes a big prediction on Ravindra Jadeja’s Test Future
New Delhi: After India’s narrow disadvantage at Lord’s in the third Test against England, former India captain Sourav Ganguly shared his views on defeat, pointing to a missing opportunity despite batting depth. He also appreciated Ravindra Jadeja for his flexible knock, supported in a stressful finish by Tailenders Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Sirj.India faced one of its most charming exams in recent times, going down by 22 runs and was 1–2 behind in the five-match series. Chasing 193, India was in deep trouble at 82/7, before Jadeja started a battle with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy, Bumrah and Siraj. The last two batsmen faced a joint 84 delivery, but could only add nine runs. Sirj was eventually bowled in unfortunate fashion, ending India’s enthusiastic pursuit.Speaking during a press event of the 2025 season Indian Racing Festival (IRF) driver draft, Ganguly admitted that he was “a little disappointed” with India’s batting, seeing his performance first in the series.“They should have found this 190, and when you saw Jadeja and scored and scored, the quality of batting in this team is absolutely luxurious, and I think they will be more disappointed than I because it was an opportunity to meet 2–1 in the series against England. Two more matches to go.,
Ganguly said that even a small contribution to the top-order could have distinguished in India’s favor.“Unhappy, but Jadeja has been exceptional from a team’s point of view. He continues to play for India as long as he performs bats and like this. He is around for a long time. About 80 Test matches and more than 200 one day games. ,“And now you can see if batting, bowling, fielding, you know, he is a special player and his batting has really improved in years with experience and quality. He was actually a top -order batsman for Saurashtra in his short days and then became a left -handed spinner and then he has a special player and a very important part of this team,” he said.
During the match, Jadeja also crossed a significant milestone by completing 7,000 international runs. In 361 demonstrations for India, he has scored 7,018 runs at an average of 33.41, including four centuries and 39 fifties in 302 innings, with the highest score of 175*.In Test cricket, Jadeja has scored 3,697 runs in 83 matches at an average of 36.97, including four hundreds and 26 fifties. His top score of 175* came in this format, which remains the most productive with the bat. In this series so far, he has scored 327 runs in six innings, on average, on average, four half -centuries and top scores of 89. He is currently the fifth highest run-scorer in the series.
