Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja ruled out of IPL 2022 with injury
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The Chennai Super Kings all-rounder has had a poor time with bat and ball this season: in 10 matches, he managed only 116 runs and picked just 5 wickets.
Ravindra Jadeja has been ruled out of the remainder of IPL 2022 with a rib injury, confirmed CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan on Wednesday, 11 May. The Chennai Super Kings all-rounder has had a poor time with bat and ball this season: in 10 matches, he managed only 116 runs and picked just 5 wickets.
"He (Jadeja) has a bruised rib," chief executive officer Kasi Vishwanathan told ESPNcricinfo. "The medical advice is he should not strain it, so we have decided that he should leave the IPL," he said.
Chennai Super Kings further released a statement about Jadeja injury stating, "Ravindra Jadeja reported a bruised rib and was unavailable for Chennai Super Kings' game against Delhi Capitals on Sunday. He was under observation and based on medical advice he has been ruled out for the rest of the IPL season."
Ravindra Jadeja was named CSK captain two days before the start of the tournament when MS Dhoni decided to step down as skipper. However, after a horror campaign for the defending champions, Jadeja handed the captaincy back to MS Dhoni who has since kept the team in the hunt for the playoffs, at least theoretically.
Ravindra Jadeja handed the reins of captaincy back to MS Dhoni a day before CSK's match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. After overseeing victory for CSK, Dhoni said he would rather have Jadeja the bowler, batter and fielder than let him be burdened with captaincy.
"I think Jadeja knew last season he'd be captaining this year. For the first two games, I oversaw his work and let him be later.
I insisted he'd take his own decisions and responsibility for them. You cannot spoon-feed everything to them. Once you become captain, it means a lot of demands come in and can affect the player's performance and occupy their mind which I think was the case with him. I think captaincy burdened his prep and performances, it meant he could not go with the bat and ball with the same intensity, we had a deep-midwicket fielder," Dhoni had told Star Sports.
