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It's high time PP has a smiley of this legend. Sir smiley, used for all occasions to convey something miraculous
 
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Sir Ravindra Jadeja tributes thread (please read post #254):

On current form best allrounder in world
 
Re: Sir Ravindra Jadeja tributes thread (please read post #254):

Sir Jadeja- great batsman, bowler, umpire, meme. :bow:
 
Perhaps he can write a book about his career, total roller-coaster ride through and through.
 
Varun said:
And be a bestseller on Amazon, yep it'd be sweet karma.
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I hope for the guys sake that they stop calling him sir and start respecting him because he's improved tremendously and doesn't deserve the flack he gets.
 
Kiwi said:
I hope for the guys sake that they stop calling him sir and start respecting him because he's improved tremendously and doesn't deserve the flack he gets.
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Of course he deserves all the publicity he gets.

The word you're looking for is flak. :)
 
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I think the IPL actually helped India a little here.
 
The cricket pandits kinda suck. They have been saying Jadeja would get least help in England, well he was turning it huge. lol
Great 5fer. Well done Ser Jaadu.
 
Varun said:
Of course he deserves all the publicity he gets.

The word you're looking for is flak. :)
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Dw you'll have plenty of time looking for spelling errors when I belt you out of the XI in PPCL :P
 
freelance_cricketer said:
The cricket pandits kinda suck. They have been saying Jadeja would get least help in England, well he was turning it huge. lol
Great 5fer. Well done Ser Jaadu.
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I was one of those too, until Jadeja's exploits converted me.
 
Death bowling wasn't surprising. No team struggling at 9/198 is going to hold back its arms for the last two overs.
 
I think it just goes to show we over analyze external factors sometimes. If you're a real good cricketer, you will do well anywhere. No excuse for being lazy and incompetent. The hard workers will always be rewarded.
 
Arise Sir Ravindra Jadeja, India's figure of fun turned gracious grafter

Having been mocked for his abilities and demeanour, the all-rounder is finally getting the positive recognition he deserves

Rob Bagchi
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 June 2013 07.48

Between 14 March and 18 March this year, during the third Test between India and Australia at Mohali, the Wikipedia page profiling the India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was edited 93 times until a flair for mischievous embellishment and persistence were finally conquered by veracity and vigilance. It commenced with an opening summary listing achievements of staggering magnitude before a significantly more mundane truth reasserted itself after an epic game of editorial whack-a-mole played out with the backspace key instead of a mallet.

"Sir Ravindra Jadeja or Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja (born 6 December 1988)," the spoof introduction began, "is a philanthropist, a Nobel Prize winner, a double Laureus Sportsman of the Year and the nearest human to being god. Other than that, he is an Indian cricketer."

It eluded the blue pencil for a while and was revived several times but now survives only on the innumerable web pages that jovially reprinted it. Far more interesting than the reliability or otherwise of Wikipedia is the motive behind the fictional flourish.

Had it appeared over the past four years it would have been obviously facetious and explicitly malicious, designed to puncture the ego of a player whose vanity was thought to make Henry VIII look like George VI. By March, though, after a very promising start to a Test career his critics thought beyond his ability, the gleeful enthusiasm with which the inventions have been received, spun, adorned and disseminated now betray a fondness for the supposed butt of them.

Where once the comic knighthood as well as the other decorations afforded "His Lordship Sir Sri Sri Ravindra Jadeja" across social media forums stood for derision, the allrounder's performances and the good-natured resilience he has shown in the face of them have given them a tender bloom. His reception from the predominantly India-supporting crowd at Cardiff during the Champions Trophy victory over South Africa , where he scored 47 off 29 balls, took two for 31, fielded energetically and athletically and broke the dangerous partnership between Robin Peterson and AB de Villiers by keeping his head, transcended mere acceptance and ventured towards adoration.

If a player's reputation among his team's fans is so dependent on form rather than character, warmth towards him can be fleeting. But it would be heartless to begrudge him a lengthy respite when the public embraces him as loyally as his team-mates did during the years he was scapegoated.

Jadeja was part of the India team who won the Under-19 World Cup in 2008 in Malaysia. Three years earlier his mother, a nurse, had died after suffering burns in a fire. Jadeja had rushed her to hospital where for five days she fought for her life, a time when, he says, she told him how much she wished she could see him play for India.

He was picked in the defending champions' squad for the World Twenty20 in England in 2009 and made his tournament debut in the Super Eight round against England. At 24 for two off 3.4 overs and chasing 154 to win, the coach, Gary Kirsten, made the bewildering decision to send Jadeja, who had earlier taken the wickets of the opener Ravi Bopara and Kevin Pietersen, in at No4 ahead of Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan. He took 35 balls to make 25 and the Almanack, among millions of other voices, blamed his inertia for the defeat. Later the same year, he was castigated for India falling three short of Australia's 350 in the fifth ODI at Hyderabad when the supposed finisher was run out needing 18 off nine balls.

A contract dispute made him ineligible for the Indian Premier League in 2010, a tournament he had won with the Rajasthan Royals in 2008 when his captain, Shane Warne, gave him the nickname "Rockstar", but he was still selected for the World T20 in the Caribbean that May despite a distinct lack of practice. He came on to bowl the fourth over of the Super Eight game against Australia and Shane Watson hit each of the last three balls of it for six. He returned for the 10th over and this time David Warner hit his first three balls for six. No need to guess who was held responsible for that defeat.

For a couple of years it seemed as though he would never live it down. He was not selected for the World Cup squad in 2011 and could not share in the absolution India's victory. Even when he scored a triple century in the Ranji Trophy in 2011 and two more in successive matches in 2012 to become the first Indian with three, the debased standards of cricket in that competition were cited to mitigate any praise. Rather than criticise the board for the quality of the domestic first-class game, it was easier to ridicule Jadeja for having the shamelessness to play three such enormous innings.

With India 2-1 down in the series against England last December, Jadeja was called up for his Test debut for the fourth match in Nagpur, clean bowling Jonathan Trott and bagging Pietersen in both innings. He kept his place for the series against Australia and, on helpful pitches, took the wicket of Michael Clarke five times in six knocks, twice bowling and once having the opposition's best player of spin stumped – a feat not to be scoffed at.

It was during that series that the tone of the jokes at his expense began to change. Perhaps he was an easier target than Dhoni for what some fans perceived as cronyism for the closeness of the captain to Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha and Suresh Raina and the fact that all four are represented by the same management company. Yet Dhoni's ragging of Jadeja on Twitter throughout this year's IPL has been an example of one of the age-old arts of captaincy – the playful sending-up of a colleague, only this time it was performed in front of an audience comprising the India captain's 2.1m followers.

"Leaving for practice at 3pm but the stadium is coming so tht sir jadeja can practice," Dhoni tweeted in April followed by: "Sir jadeja doesn't run to take the catch but the ball finds him and lands on his hand." By doing so he has helped to defuse the sneering, emphasising that the team and especially Jadeja are all in on it. "I think it is a joke and we are enjoying it," said the man himself. "I don't think I'm a great man or miracle man. I just want to be what I am right now. I don't take the title 'Sir' seriously."

No one takes the title seriously and sometimes those who hustle with the ball and bustle with the bat take time to win over crowds because their skills look so commonplace, so attainable. Grafters are given fewer favours than the innately gifted. Their character, though, commands respect.

Ashley Giles may never escape the "wheelie bin" and "King of Spain" and it is likely that Jadeja will never shake "Jadejageddon" or his "knighthood", but both prove that if you earn the respect of your coaches and team-mates, scepticism and sarcasm can be converted into belief and affection.
 
Tribute from KBC...

Well Just now, saw a Question in the KBC Qualification...
Which out of these cricket players have been given the Prefix SIR on the social networking Site?

:)) SIR IS EVERY WHERE

:bow:
 
Ganguly told in a news paper that Jadeja is a better bowler than Yuvi (as if we didn't know) but he also said Jaddu will be useless in tests....I disagree.....:26:
 
It's really a surprising how he comes at the correct place at the correct time and succeed out of nowhere(be it batting,bowling or fielding).
 
Why did Sir give 14 runs in his last over?
Ans: For Dhawan to score ton; dk nd Sammy to score their half tons

Sir knows everything
 
Sir Ravindra Jadeja´s turn

Did anyone else notice the amount of turn this ball took? I don´t think we will find any video clip of it but below is the screenshot of the commentary.

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Sir is such a humble personality that he didn´t trust himself to turn it that much and appealed, expecting only an outside edge to carry the ball to Ravichandran Ashwin in the slips.
 
He was bowling slower than usual yesterday, and that made the ball turn sharply. He is a clever bowler.
 
I hope he gets more time to bat now. May be in Zim. tour, MSD should sit out like last time, that way he will get some confidence in batting even more. If Raina gets his 2008 ish form back, like Kohli, we will be challenging side in next world cup.

And I expect Che to be in ODI side soon, that will make our batting strength even stronger. Rohit and Karthik can rotate.
 
If he is given chance to bat in the top 4....he will start scoring tons....mark my words
 
Abhilash said:
From FB
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Even VIRAT KOHLI lost his Dad at age 17 ..... At this difficult time ,he was suppose to play an imp match for Delhi team.. he played and won them with a 80 odd run knock ... RESPECT to this hard working cricketers..
 
So is Jadeja a bowler or batsmen ?

I'm just curious and also fail to understand why our batsmen couldn't figure him out ? The way he got Misbah out was just whack...
 
he is deadly straight....when he can turn the ball he is a nightmare to any batsman..

In aakash words

Aakash Chopra ‏@cricketaakash 5h

When Jadeja finds spin off d surface he becomes a batsman's nightmare. D one that turns away sows d seeds of doubt..straight ball does d job
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Of course he can bat a bit..got couple of triple centuries u know :D
 
Sir Jaddu is not only a bowler or batsman he is a coach a team manager and a PHD in cricket...
 
Dhoni has kept faith in him when he was constantly mocked during his early career. Through hard work, he has developed into a pretty decent all-rounder who would easily get into our side.

Indian players go forward while ours go back
 
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I predict a hafeez like career.
Untalented hack who stumbles in to a purple patch
 
Still a mediocre player. Just because he's having a good time right now doesn't mean it will last forever. He needs to perform well bat and ball in all forms consistently and in all types of conditions.
 
He is unlucky not to have a chance to bat in the top-6..... Hafeez is good but Jadeja has looked good with the ball even in tests..even considering helpful conditions,he can make most odi teams only on his fielding itself.... he has been playing for 4 years and has a batting avg of 31.....I can not see it as a fluke...and he is immensely improved as a bowler..

his bowling and batting avg in tests is also 19 :P however he will improve more with the bat in time to come...will be handful in Australia with bigger boundaries and will be one of the game changers in the next wrld cup
 
cricketjoshila said:
Batting and bowling avg of 31 in ODIs.Not bad.
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31 is very good for an all rounder batting at six or seven down. But average is not the main thing, a batsman is considered good in ODI only if he can play the kind of stellar innings that can take the team to victory from difficult situations.
 
truefan said:
his bowling and batting avg in tests is also 19 :P however he will improve more with the bat in time to come...will be handful in Australia with bigger boundaries and will be one of the game changers in the next wrld cup
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He was useless the last time we toured out there.
 
Sir is now ranked no.4 in both ODIs bowlers and allrounders rankings :14:
 
Energetic said:
Still a mediocre player. Just because he's having a good time right now doesn't mean it will last forever. He needs to perform well bat and ball in all forms consistently and in all types of conditions.
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India and England

Tests ODI and T20s

:D
 
Energetic said:
Still a mediocre player. Just because he's having a good time right now doesn't mean it will last forever. He needs to perform well bat and ball in all forms consistently and in all types of conditions.
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Which are the other all rounders at present, who bat and bowl well in all forms and in all types of conditions. Just curious whom you are referring to.
 
IndianWillow said:
Which are the other all rounders at present, who bat and bowl well in all forms and in all types of conditions. Just curious whom you are referring to.
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he is thinking about Kallis, no other player has done it better

But "Sir" Jadeja is going to be the Lord Supreme :D
 
anakin said:
he is thinking about Kallis, no other player has done it better

But "Sir" Jadeja is going to be the Lord Supreme :D
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Jadeja has already won many more matches for India with his bowling than Kallis ever did. Batting is a different story.
 
Gets the big one! Mahela gone. :D


Ser Jaadu screwing Lankan planning. :bow:
 
First Match : India won by 26 runs
against SA (2+6=8)
2nd Match: India won by 8 wickets
against WI
3rd Match: India won by 8 wickets
against PAK
Semis: India won by wickets 8 against
SL
8 Includes in every Win
Coz
.
.
.

8 is Jersey no. of Sir jadeja.
final is on 23-6-2013
2+3+6+2+0+1+3=17 , 1+7=8

SIR JADDU....TAKE A BOW.
 
Electron said:
First Match : India won by 26 runs
against SA (2+6=8)
2nd Match: India won by 8 wickets
against WI
3rd Match: India won by 8 wickets
against PAK
Semis: India won by wickets 8 against
SL
8 Includes in every Win
Coz
.
.
.

8 is Jersey no. of Sir jadeja.
final is on 23-6-2013
2+3+6+2+0+1+3=17 , 1+7=8

SIR JADDU....TAKE A BOW.
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:)) great
 
Limited overs player who is utilizing his limited skills to the best of his ability and reminds me of a very young manoj prabhakar
 
truefan said:
Manoj prabhakar wasn't 0.001% of the player Jadeja was in his U-19 days :46:
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He was a utility cricketeer in both formats of the game but better at the shorter version plus he was opening for India for a brief period of time.Definitely one of the most under-rated cricketeer of our country
 
Re: Sir Ravindra Jadeja tributes thread (please read post #254):

Hail Sir Jaddu. Highest wicket taker in CT.
 
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