5 best moments from Ravindra Jadeja's international career

#1 vs England, Lord’s Test (2014)

Jadeja celebrating his half-century, Lord’s 2014

Jadeja’s coming of age moment as a Test all-rounder came against England in 2014. Before the knock, he hadn’t scored a single Test fifty.

Tottering on 202-5, the Indian team needed a final push to put up a decent target against the hosts. Jadeja’s game-changing, enterprising 68 swung the match towards India, and Ishant Sharma’s 7-for, India managed to claim a memorable victory at Lord’s. With wickets falling at the other end, Jadeja decided to set himself loose on the English bowling, for his bellicose batting was the only way India could have walked out of jail.

65 runs were scored in eight overs after lunch on Day 4, even as the English bowlers were taken aback by the onslaught. Bhuvneshwar Kumar proved to be the ideal folly, scoring a staid fifty to maintain some sanity in the middle

Jadeja celebrated the fifty with a unique blade-brandishing exercise, swooshing the bat like a sword, much like the Rajputana customs that he has grown up in, an image that he was to repeat against England this year.