Deep Dasgupta: Jadeja and Stokes are now on same page

The star Indian al-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is now in the same page with English veteran Ben Stokes says former Indian wicket-keepr batsman Deep Dasgupta.

Jadeja has played a vital role in India's emphatic victory against Australia in the boxing day Test match.

He returned in the Test squad in the second test afer injury and backed 3 wickets and scored 57 runs when the team was in a trouble. He stood with the captain Ajinkya Rahane for a 100 plus partnership which was match defining.

"As of now the way he's batting he definitely is (in the same bracket as Ben Stokes). Even during the IPL, I actually said why not him at No. 4 for CSK. He's got a couple of triple hundreds in domestic cricket, getting runs there is not easy," Dasgupta told Sports Today.

"For Saurashtra, he bats at No. 4 but for India, he comes in at 7 or 8. Somehow I felt that he never took his batting seriously enough. In 2017, he was dropped from the side but and I think what kind of prompted him was the fact that he wanted to make himself more useful to the team, not just with the ball but with the bat as well."

Dasgupta aserted that Jadeja is a skillful batsman and he performed for Saurastra at No.4 over the times and now it's more difficult to get him out.