“We have taken 10 celebrations of RCB in IPL and we have selected six innings of Virat from each IPL and created 60 levels which is the career progression mode”, said Manish Agarwal, CEO of Nazara Games. With no further news about the fitness of the two aforementioned players, Jadhav looks like a reliable source of runs for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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In 2010, Kedar Jadhav was drafted into the Delhi Daredevils XI at the last minute, in an away game at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
The Bengaluru crowd is used to seeing the big hitting in limited overs games. “Ever since I started playing first-class cricket 10 years ago, I’ve been trying all the shots”, Jadhav said. “I am feeling much stronger, fitter so that definitely helped me, I guess”, said the RCB batsman on his fitness.
This was Jadhav’s highest IPL score, and only his third fifty in the tournament. Between the two editions of the IPL, Jadhav has established himself as a first-choice middle-order batsman in the Indian team. But his contributions got overshadowed a bit by the performances of Kohli and de Villiers. I just watch the ball, keep all the options open, and react to the ball.
Then, Karun Nair (4), who recently played against Australia in the Test series, lasted for just three balls as he was clean-bowled by a gem of a delivery from Stanlake which went through his defences and hit the off-stump. “We stepped it up from the first game with the ball and in the field, but Kedar was the key and he got the momentum going”. Shane Watson-led RCB eventually won by 15 runs, giving the franchise their first victory of the campaign. Jadhav picked out leg-spinner Amit Mishra for special treatment, hammering two sixes and couple of fours in the 13th over.
With a rejigged batting lineup, where Travis Head was intriguingly dropped, the overdependence on Gayle, Watson and Jadhav was obvious, and with the first two failing to find their mojo, it was all just too much for Jadhav to do on his own.
However, Daredevils have the likes of young Rishabh Pant, who has a lot to offer with the bat, West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite and Aussie pacer Pat Cummins to lend the team experience and firepower.
Devender Sharma, who has coached him at Sonnet, and had attended the cremation, says, “His maternal grandfather took him aside and asked him if he wanted to play”.
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On the prospects of unsafe batter A.B.de Villiers on the team, Mills said the medical team would decide if he had recovered from back pain and was fit to play.
