Ravindra Jadeja’s all-round performance led India to a
massive innings and 222 runs victory against Sri Lanka in the first Test at the IS Bindra
Stadium in Mohali. Jadeja scored 175 in India’s only innings of the match, took a fifer in Sri Lanka’s first innings and four more wickets in the
second. With this tall performance, Jadeja became the first player to score more than 150 runs and pick up a five-wicket haul in a Test match in 50 years. He is also the first cricketer to score over 150 and take 9 wickets in a Test match.

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After being bundled out for 174 in the first innings,
Sri Lanka lost 16 wickets in one day and was bowled out for 178 in their second
innings, conceding India a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.

In their first innings, their failure to cross
Jadeja’s individual tally of 175 made their performance look even poorer.

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The first player to score 150 plus and take five wickets in a Test was Vinoo Mankad. Mankad
scored 184 and picked up five wickets against England in 1952.

After Mankad, the West Indies player Denis Atkinson
had amassed 219 runs against Australia in 1955 and had also picked up 5
wickets. In 1962, Indian cricketer Polly Umrigar had smashed an unbeaten 172
runs against West Indies alongside picking 5 wickets.

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Legendary West Indies all-rounder Garry Sobers had
picked up 5 wickets and scored 174 runs against England in 1966. Mushtaq
Mohammad of Pakistan had amassed 201 runs against New Zealand in 1973 as he
also picked up 5 wickets.

After 1973, for the first time, Ravindra Jadeja played
an unbeaten 175-run innings along with 5 wickets against Sri Lanka in the
ongoing Test match at Mohali.

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It was Jadeja’s 20th five-wicket haul in Test cricket. 

Ravindra Jadeja was adjudged Player of the Match for
this magnificent performance in Virat Kohli’s 100th Test and Rohit
Sharma’s first Test as a skipper.