India cricketer Kedar Jadhav on Monday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, through his social media account. Jadhav took inspiration from MS Dhoni and chose to make the announcement just like the former India captain did a few years ago.
"Thank you all For your love and support throughout my Career from 1500 hrs Consider me as retired from all forms of cricket," Jadhav tweeted.
Notably, Dhoni had announced his India retirement with a similar post on Instagram. "Thanks a lot for ur love and support throughout.from 1929 hrs consider me as Retired," MSD had posted on August 15, 2020.
But Jadhav didn't clarify whether he will continue captaining the Kolhapur Tuskers in the Maharashtra Premier League which started in Pune on Sunday.
KD's India career in numbers
Jadhav primarily featured in ODI cricket for Team India, playing 73 matches from 2014 to 2020 before finding himself out of the squad due to inconsistency with the bat.
The 39-year-old amassed 1389 runs at an average of 42.09 with 2 hundreds ands 6 fifties. He also picked 27 wickets with his unorthodox right-arm off-spin bowling.
Jadhav also played 6 T20Is in which he scored 122 runs at 20.33 with one half-century. He played for the Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Capitals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the Indian Premier League.
Jadhav's legacy
He was known for his unique bowling action which he perfected under Dhoni's captaincy in white-ball cricket.
Jadhav used to switch to a slinging action with his arm rolling just over his right shoulder at the point of delivery whenever he wanted to outsmart the batter or keep him from playing a big shot.
Jadhav's greatest career moment moment has to be the Pune ODI against England in January 2017, when he got his second ODI ton. He smacked a brutal 76-ball 120 with 12 fours and four sixes to fire India to a three-wicket win in a high-scoring contest.
The Pune-born cricketer is also a massive fan of Salman Khan and often posts reels walking and talking like the Bollywood superstar on his social media accounts.
