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Ravindra Jadeja Completes 500 First-Class Wickets By Snapping Ben Stokes In Rajkot Test

image-lspsktluRavindra Jadeja celebrating Ben Stokes' downfall on Day 3 [X.com]

Indian spinner Ravindra Jadeja snapped English captain Ben Stokes soon after the lunch break on Day 3 of the third Test. As it turned out, Jadeja's timely strike also triggered a colossal lower-order batting collapse within the English camp, as they lost their final five wickets for just 20 runs.

Aiming to hoik the Indian all-rounder over the cow corner for a six, Stokes barely managed to find Jasprit Bumrah at wide long-on. Remarkably, his dismissal handed Ravindra Jadeja his 500th scalp in first-class cricket.


Jadeja completes 500 FC wickets at Rajkot

Ravindra Jadeja dismissed England captain Ben Stokes on the third afternoon to complete 500 wickets in first-class cricket. The star all-rounder made his first-class debut back in October 2006 with a Duleep Trophy match against South Zone. About six Indian winters later, the cricketer received his maiden Test cap for a home match against England at Nagpur.

Shortly after capping Ben Stokes, Jadeja also denied Tom Hartley from waging any late rebellion to extend his first-class tally to 501 wickets. Remarkably, the legendary left-arm spinner claimed 282 of them while donning the Test jersey for Team India from just 69 matches.

Earlier in the England innings, Jadeja's longtime spin teammate Ravichandran Ashwin also completed 500 wickets, albeit strictly in Tests. The senior all-rounder made English opener Zak Crawley his 500th victim, thus becoming only the second Indian bowler and ninth overall to get to the landmark figure.

While Ashwin has opted himself out of the remainder of Rajkot Test owing to personal reasons, Jadeja will start out the second English innings as India's primary spin exponent.

Meanwhile, England folded up for 319 in their first innings on Day 3 to hand India a 126-run lead at the halfway stage of the game.