Ravindra Jadeja credits Gautam Gambhir for batting success: ‘Gauti bhai (Gambhir) said, I’m at number six now…been batting at number eight, number nine’

Ravindra Jadeja has been enjoying a fruitful period with the bat in 2025. He has scored 659 runs at an average of 82.38. The southpaw has credited much of his success this year to having a stable batting number at six allotted by Head Coach Gautam Gambhir. Jadeja, after piling on runs in England, has scored a century in the first innings of the first Test in Ahmedabad and also managed to pick eight wickets in the series, for which he has been awarded Player of the Tournament.

“As Gauti bhai (Gambhir) said, I’m at number six now. So I’m thinking more as a proper batsman, and that works for me. In the past, for many years, I’ve been batting at number eight, number nine, so my mindset was a little different from what I have now. I’m just trying to spend more time in the middle whenever I get a chance to bat. To be honest, I don’t think too much about records. I just focus on contributing with both bat and ball to help my team win. I always look forward to do that. I feel if I don’t perform with bat and ball, then it doesn’t reflect my value as a player,” said Jadeja to the broadcasters after India’s win against West Indies in 2nd Test at New Delhi on Tuesday.

“I could get a chance to bowl more overs (after Ashwin’s retirement). But yeah, all in all, we’ve been doing wonderful work as a team, in terms of batting and bowling. I think we know what brand of cricket we’ve been playing over the last five, six months. So that’s a good sign as a team, that we continue to do it over a long period of time,” Jadeja said.

India’s 2-0 win over West Indies is the first series win for the side since Shubman Gill took over the captaincy. In his first series against England, the result was 2-2.