Chennai Super Kings (CSK) all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja who’s coming into aggressive cricket after a layoff felt the warmth in Mumbai bodily by the point the final over of the CSK innings arrived. The star India all-rounder spilled the beans on how skipper MS Dhoni helped him hit these 5 sixes within the final over off Harshal Patel on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday (April 25). Jadeja revealed that Dhoni informed him that Harshal would look to bowl outdoors the off-stump.
“I was looking to hit hard in the last over, Mahi bhai told me he (Harshal) will be bowling somewhere outside the off-stump and I was ready for that,” he stated on the publish match presentation.
A modest Jadeja – who was named the man-of-the-match for his all-round present towards table-toppers Royal Challengers Bangalore – stated he was ‘lucky’ to have related the balls from the center of the bat.
“Luckily I connected with everything and we managed to reach 191, which was crucial over from our side. I knew I had to score some runs if I do get on strike,” he added.
Jadeja, who missed the complete England sequence after breaking a finger in India’s third Test towards Australia earlier this yr, additionally felt grateful that he may contribute in the direction of the victory of the facet. He admitted that he has been working actually exhausting on his health and felt fortunate that it paid off.
“Enjoyed a lot, when you contribute for your team in a winning match, it means a lot. I have been working a lot on my fitness, skill and everything else, luckily, it paid off today. It’s tough as an all-rounder, you’ll have to do well in all departments – while training, I don’t do all the three things (batting, bowling and fielding practice) on the same day. I work on my skills one day and my fitness on the next day – that’s how I manage my workload,” he additional added.
