Not too long after former Indian cricketer and 1983 World Cup winning icon Kris Srikkanth called it openly coming into the defence of a certain Ravindra Jadeja that “not sure why he’s been lot go totally,” has the very cricketer resurfaced after spending quite a few weeks on the sidelines owing to a nagging injury. Yes, you read that right.
Ravindra Jadeja is now back in contention for what seems to be a positive news especially in lines with the forthcoming tours that Team India will be contesting.
The next immediate cricketing assignment or tour is that of the series that’s slated to be played in Sri Lanka and where the longest format of the game is concerned, then it turns out that the visiting side shall be playing no fewer than 2 tests in the island pearl further down south.
Having said that, the famous cricketer, last scene in the Indian Premier League’s 2026 edition will be hoping to be get picked in the Indian squad that’ll soon be Sri Lanka bound.
Shubman Gill and KL Rahul shall play the leadership roles in the capacity of the captain and vice captain, recently.
While playing the IPL 2026, Jadeja, who’s now a part of Rajathan Royals camp had sustained a tennis elbow injury and had since been on the sidelines waiting to recover.
The seasoned all rounder, who had been in peak form from the onset of 2015- until the commotion of the 2022 season, is still fit, has this undying love for the game and is ever eager to contribute to the growing culture of Indian cricket in its longest format.
Meanwhile, a report published on the subject of Ravindra Jadeja in Cricinfo happened to highlight the following:
biggest question marks are around the fitness of Washington Sundar and Harshit Rana. Cricinfo understands that Rana is yet to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered in the middle of the T20I series in England. Rana had returned to action in July after missing the 2026 T20 World Cup and the IPL with a knee injury. His last Test was against Australia in Adelaide in December 2024.
Washington, meanwhile, missed the third ODI against England with a hamstring injury and was replaced in the squad by Harsh Dubey.
That being told, India and Sri Lanka have had a great tryst where it comes to playing red ball cricket.
Back in the day, Sri Lanka as of August 1997, in a test match at Colombo, posted a highest team score of 952, which was brilliantly led by Sanath Jayasuriya scoring 340 runs on his own.
Back in those days a host of charismatic cricketers lit up the contests between the two sides including the likes of Dravid, Kumble, Laxman, Tendulkar, Sehwag and Zaheer Khan on the one hand and Jayasurya, Muralitharan and Vaas on the other.
