Ravindra Jadeja is undoubtedly one of many best all-rounders on the planet. Making his debut in 2009, Jadeja has performed 174 ODIs, 64 T20Is, and 65 Tests and has taken 510 wickets. Apart from shinning with the ball, Jadeja has additionally scored a whopping complete of 5689 worldwide runs. During the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Trophy in opposition to Australia, earlier this 12 months, the 34-year all-rounder emerged as joint Player of the Series with Ravichandran Ashwin. Despite all these heroics, former Australia Matthew Hayden went on to match Pakistan all-rounder Shadab Khan with Jadeja.

On being requested to select Pakistan’s primary spinner for the upcoming ODI World Cup, Hayden known as Shadab a “three-dimensional” participant like Jadeja and praised him for having variations in his bowling.

“Shadab Khan is a fantastic player. He is an individual of absolute quality. Like Jaddu (Ravindra Jadeja), he is a three-dimensional cricketer. He is a dangerous hitter with the bat. He has got the variations with the ball and he is also a wonderful fielder, and just one further point around this – you win World Cups by fielding efforts,” Hayden instructed Star Sports.

Shadab has scored 631 runs at a strike charge of 82.05 in 33 ODI innings. He has scalped 73 wickets at an affordable economic system charge of 5.13 within the 54 innings that he has bowled within the ODI format.

The Australia nice went on to level out the significance of fielding within the World Cup and said {that a} staff like Australia is actually “dangerous” because of their effort on the sector.

“They are the little things that you don’t see, that make a big difference in tournament cricket. Under pressure, those catches around the boundaries, those specially unique run-outs that happen, they are the things that will never really be statistically noted in the World Cup,” he added.

“That’s why sides like Australia are really dangerous because they combine really well under pressure in the one thing, an element of cricket which is the most selfless, and that’s effort in the field.”