“Never ever seen this”: R Jadeja controversy around ball tampering invites strict reaction from Michael Vaughan

Gurpreet Singh | 09/02/2023
"Never ever seen this": R Jadeja controversy around ball tampering invites strict reaction from Michael Vaughan

Minutes after team India’s impressive show on ‘Day 1’ of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Vidarbha Cricket Association in Nagpur, allrounder Ravindra Jadeja has found himself in the midst of some controversy of sorts.

In a video which is doing rounds across the social media, at the time when the Australian scorecard was reading 120/5, Jadeja is seen taking a cream/ointment off Mohammed Siraj’s hand with his right index finger which he gently rubs using his right thumb.

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With the ball in his left hand, he is then seen innocuously applying the substance on his left index finger with the help of his right hand fingers. Until the end of the half-a-minute video clip, the allrounder is not seen attempting to deliberately have the substance come in contact with the ball in hand.

R Jadeja controversy around ball tampering receives strict reaction from Michael Vaughan

The likes of former Australia Test captain Tim Paine and former England skipper Michael Vaughan have made sure to pay quite some heed to the video clip, with the latter even subtly indicating at some malicious intent on part of Jadeja.

“What is it he is putting on his spinning finger? Never ever seen this…”, tweeted Vaughan as a quote to a news story covering the incident by Fox Cricket.

However, as per the sources in the Indian Express, the media outlet has confirmed that the substance was nothing but an ointment or cream which Jadeja was applying on his ‘callus finger’.

Also, as per the report, applying an ointment/cream is part of a common practice and well within the laws of the game.

Take a look at the aforementioned video clip below:

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Post Edited By: Gurpreet Singh
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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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