Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja made a significant contribution to the team’s win against Australia on Sunday, October 8. The match was played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai and India won it by six wickets, thanks to brilliant innings by KL Rahul and Virat Kohli Jadeja’s three-wicket haul also contributed much in restricting Australia under 200.
With this Ravindra Jadeja has joined the elite list of bowlers who now have more than 100 international wickets against the mighty Australians. For this achievement, Jadeja took 40 matches.
The second-highest wicket-taker is Harbhajan Singh. The former Indian spinner has taken 105 wickets in 37 matches. At the top of the list, the star England pacer Stuart Broad is established with 128 wickets in 41 games.
While batting first, Australia was bundled out on 199 runs in 49.3 overs. For Australia Steven Smith scored the most 46 runs while David Warner got 41 runs. Apart from it, Mitchell Starc contributed with 28 runs and Marnus Labuschagne got 27 runs from his bat, helping Australia to get a respectable total.
For India, Ravindra Jadeja got three wickets, and Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav managed to get two wickets each. Apart from it, Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya, and R Ashwin occupied one-on-one wickets in their kitty.
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Chasing a target of 200 runs, India had a horrible start where they lost Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, and Ishan Kishan on the individual score of zero. After that, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli came to the crease and stitched a solid partnership of 165 runs in 215 balls. Kohli scored 86 runs with the help of six fours. KL Rahul had 97 runs with the help of eight fours and two sixes.
For Australia, Josh Hazlewood got three wickets while Mitchell Starc managed to get one.
