'Left-arm spinner's dream ball': Jadeja on Suthar's ball to dismiss Chandimal

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In Sri Lanka’s first innings of the first Test match, Team India bowled out the hosts for 284 runs at the Galle International Cricket Stadium near Galle Fort.

During the match, Team India’s spinner Manav Suthar played a crucial role with the ball. He returned with the figures of four wickets for 76 runs in 21.4 overs.

His first delivery of the spell earned him the prized wicket of veteran Dinesh Chandimal, with the delivery generating sharp turn and bounce after drifting in, landing into the safe hands of wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.

Speaking about the delivery, Team India’s veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja said that it was a left-arm spinner’s dream ball.

“I saw you bowl for the first time in a Test match. The ball that was coming out of your hand was the very first ball. Actually, it was a very high-quality ball (that dismissed Chandimal). As a left-arm spinner, I watch a lot of things on TV,” he said in a video posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

“But the live experience that I had, the first ball that came out of the hand and the revs on the ball, after seeing that, I felt that I got to see a proper left-arm spinner’s dream ball,” added Jadeja.

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Jadeja also bagged three wickets by conceding 57 runs in 21 overs. With this, he also became the fifth Indian bowler to reach the mark in Tests, joining Anil Kumble (619), Ravichandran Ashwin (537), Kapil Dev (434) and Harbhajan Singh (417).

Among left-arm spinners, Jadeja now sits third for Test wickets behind Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath (433) and New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori (362). The milestone also saw Jadeja join former India captain Kapil Dev as the only Indians to have amassed more than 4,000 Test runs and 350 wickets.

Along with him, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, and Kuldeep Yadav also chipped in with one wicket each.

Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha smashed a stunning century in 168 balls. His knock was laced with four boundaries and two maximums. Shouldering him was wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella, who accumulated 80 runs in 115 balls, including seven boundaries.

(With ANI Inputs)

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