After selecting up a 5-wicket-haul with the ball, Ravindra Jadeja transformed his superlative kind with the bat, scoring a half-century within the first Test in opposition to Australia on Friday. With a fifer on Day 1 and a fifty on Day 2, Jadeja actually proved his credentials as an all-rounder. Seeing Jadeja’s heroics, an epic dialog unfolded between the trio of Dinesh Karthik, Ravi Shastri and Matthew Hayden over ‘Three-Dimensional Players’, a subject that has triggered excessive reactions from followers and specialists up to now.
The time period ‘3D Cricketer’ was famously utilized by former India chief selector MSK Prasad when Vijay Shankar was picked over Ambati Rayudu in India’s 2019 ODI World Cup squad.
Speaking of Jadeja, Hayden was filled with reward for him, as he known as him a “three-dimensional cricketer” whereas commentating on Day 2 of the Nagpur Test. “Three-dimensional cricketers are a very sensitive topic in this part of the world, I must say,” Karthik, a fellow commentator on the event, mentioned on Hayden’s reward.
Hayden, most likely unaware of the Shankar-Rayudu incident, pushed Karthik and Ravi Shastri to dwell on the subject and enlighten him.
“Come on now, don’t keep the suspense any longer,” Hayden asserted earlier than Karthik intervened and mentioned whereas bursting into laughter, “Maybe Ravi bhai can enlighten you on that.”
“I don’t think I have ever witnessed Ravi Shastri backing down from a challenge. What is it, big fella?” Hayden mentioned, pushing the previous India head coach to clarify the controversy to him.
“When a player was picked some time ago and one of the selectors mentioned that he was a three-dimensional cricketer. I’m still trying to figure out what that means,” Shastri mentioned, replying to the previous Australia opener who then began to chuckle. Hayden then mentioned: “What I meant, just for clarity is, a really terrific fielder, decent with bat and can bowl.”
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