IPL 2026: Before IPL 2026, Rajasthan Royals had taken a big and shocking decision. Team captain Sanju Samson was traded and sent to Chennai Super Kings. In exchange for this trade, Rajasthan included experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and England’s Sam Curran in its team. After Sanju’s departure, the biggest question now is who will take over the captaincy of Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026?

Rajasthan played the 2025 season under the captaincy of Sanju Samson. During that time Riyan Parag was made the vice-captain. Riyan Parag also took command of the team in some matches when Sanju was unfit. In such a situation, he is considered a strong contender in the captaincy race.

Social media post increased the stir

Rajasthan Royals recently shared a photo of Ravindra Jadeja on social media. The caption of this post read, “Thalapathy soon.” In Tamil language “Thalapathy” means leader or commander. This one line has intensified the discussion among the fans whether Jadeja will be given the new responsibility of the team. However, no official announcement regarding captaincy has been made by the franchise yet.

Thalapathy pic.twitter.com/xPPX5z3Sco

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) January 4, 2026

Many names in the race for captaincy

Rajasthan Royals currently have many options for captaincy. Apart from Riyan Parag, the young players include names like Dhruv Jurel and Yashasvi Jaiswal, who are considered future leaders. But if seen in terms of experience, Ravindra Jadeja’s name comes at the top.

Jadeja is not only a senior player, but he also has long experience of the Indian team and IPL. He has learned to handle pressure well in big matches, which is the most important quality for a captain.

old relation with rajasthan

Ravindra Jadeja has a long relationship with Rajasthan Royals. When Rajasthan Royals won the first IPL title in 2008, Jadeja was also a part of the team. In 2009 also, he was seen in the jersey of Rajasthan Royals. After this, he joined Chennai Super Kings in 2012 and remained the backbone of the team for a long time.

Who will captain Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026 remains the center of discussion. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Riyan Parag have been seen as options for captaincy, but discussion has also intensified on the name of Ravindra Jadeja for captaincy. Jadeja, Sanju Samson have come to Rajasthan Royals team due to trade deal.

Rajasthan Royals have shared a picture of Ravindra Jadeja on social media, which is being seen as a gesture of making him the new captain of the team. The Royals have written ‘Thalapati’ along with Jadeja’s picture, which is believed to mean commander. If so, then Ravindra Jadeja can be seen as the commander or leader of Rajasthan Royals team in IPL 2026. Let us tell you that Jadeja was getting Rs 18 crore in CSK, but he had decided to go to Rajasthan team for Rs 14 crore.

Thalapathy pic.twitter.com/xPPX5z3Sco

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) January 4, 2026

Meanwhile, in the report of news agency IANS, it has been said that in IPL 2026, Rajasthan Royals matches can be played in Pune. In the next season, Pune can be the home ground of RR team, which till now was Jaipur. According to sources, the deal between Maharashtra Cricket Association and Rajasthan Royals is close to being signed.

Due to ongoing differences with the Rajasthan Cricket Association, the Rajasthan Royals franchise has decided not to make Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Stadium its home ground for the next season. These differences arose when an official of the Rajasthan Cricket Association accused the RR franchise of match fixing. The Rajasthan team had rejected these allegations and also demanded strict action against the wrong allegations.

It is also being told that Baraspara Stadium of Guwahati can be the second home ground of Rajasthan Royals team and its announcement is also possible very soon.

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There is rain of fours and sixes in IPL every season, but there are some overs which are recorded forever in the history of cricket. Scoring the most runs in a single over not only shows the strength of the batsman, but also changes the entire trend of the match. In the history of IPL, there have been many such overs where the bowlers looked helpless and the batsmen made records.

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kochi Tuskers – 8 May 2011

The record of most runs scored in one over in IPL is 37 runs. This feat was first accomplished by Chris Gayle on 8 May 2011. While playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gayle attacked Kochi Tuskers Kerala bowler Prasanth Parameswaran fiercely in the over. Gayle hit six sixes and fours with one no-ball in that over. This match played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is still counted among the most memorable moments of IPL.

RCB vs Chennai Super Kings – 25 April 2021

After almost ten years, this record was repeated again on 25 April 2021. This time, Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja scored 37 runs in one over of RCB bowler Harshal Patel. In this match played in Mumbai, Jadeja hit sixes and proved that he has the ability to win matches not only with the ball but also with the bat.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians – 2022

Another surprising name was added to this list in IPL 2022. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Pat Cummins scored 35 runs in Daniel Sams’ over against Mumbai Indians. In this match played in Pune, Cummins showed that even a fast bowler can become a dangerous batsman when needed.

Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab – 30 May 2014

Suresh Raina has always been a reliable batsman in IPL. On May 30, 2014, while playing for CSK, he scored 33 runs in one over of Punjab’s Parvinder Awana. His fast run rate and excellent timing put the team in a strong position.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab – 4 April 2010

In IPL 2010, Manoj Tiwari of Kolkata Knight Riders along with Chris Gayle scored 33 runs in a single over. Fours and sixes rained in this over of Ravi Bopara and this moment of the initial IPL season is still remembered.

Most Run For India In 2025: The year 2025 has seen excellent performance by Indian batsmen. This year, many batsmen of Team India have scored a lot of runs in different formats, but in the year 2025, Indian Test and ODI team captain Shubman Gill is the highest run scorer for India. The performance of many other batsmen has been amazing in the year 2025, in which one batsman is included in the list of top-5 scorers of most runs for India this year by playing only one format. Here we are going to tell about those top-5 batsmen who have scored the most runs for India in the year 2025.

Top-5 batsmen who scored the most runs for India in the year 2025

1. Shubman Gill – 1,764 runs

Indian Test and ODI team captain Shubman Gill is at number one in the list of top-5 batsmen who have scored the most runs for India in the year 2025. Shubman scored a total of 1,764 runs in 35 matches this year, which included 7 centuries and three half-centuries.

2. KL Rahul – 1,180 runs

Experienced opener KL Rahul is at second place in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs for India in the year 2025. Rahul played 24 matches this year, in which he scored a total of 1,180 runs with the help of 3 centuries and 5 half-centuries.

3. Yashasvi Jaiswal – 916 runs

Team India’s young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal is at third place in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs for India in the year 2025. Yashasvi scored a total of 916 runs in 14 matches this year, which included 4 centuries and 3 half-centuries.

4. Ravindra Jadeja – 870 runs

Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is at fourth place in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs for India in the year 2025. Jadeja played 20 matches this year, in which he scored a total of 870 runs with the help of 2 centuries and 6 half-centuries.

5. Abhishek Sharma – 859 runs

Team India’s explosive opening batsman Abhishek Sharma is at fifth position in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs for India in the year 2025. Abhishek scored a total of 859 runs in 21 matches this year, which included 1 century and 5 half-centuries.

Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian cricket team’s experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and minister in Gujarat government, is once again in the headlines for her statement. Rivaba has made such allegations against the players of Team India in a program, which has created a stir in the cricket world. His comment is spreading rapidly on social media and everyone from fans to experts are giving their reaction on it.

Rivaba’s sensational allegations against the Indian team

While praising her husband’s honesty and discipline during the program, Rivaba suddenly targeted the other Indian players. He said that Jadeja goes to play in many countries of the world like London, Dubai, Australia, but still he never fell into any bad habit or addiction. After this Rivaba made a shocking allegation and said, “All the other players of the team go abroad and do wrong things.” This statement of his has surprised everyone because it directly questions the culture of the dressing room of Team India.

Rivaba further said that if Jadeja wants, he too can do the same. They don’t even need to ask me. However, he understands his responsibilities and always remains disciplined.

Stir among cricket fans

Immediately after Rivaba’s statement, there was a flood of reactions on social media. This is not the first time that Rivaba has come into the limelight for a controversial statement, but this time the issue has become bigger as the matter is related to cricketers.

Jadeja will be seen with a new team in IPL 2026

Amidst Rivaba’s statement, a big news related to cricket also came to light. Ravindra Jadeja will be seen in the jersey of Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. Jadeja, who was a part of Chennai Super Kings till last season, has been included by Rajasthan in a big trade. Interestingly, Jadeja also made his IPL debut in 2008 for Rajasthan. That means he is once again returning to his first franchise.

6th December has always been a special day in the Indian cricket calendar. There is a long and powerful list of cricketers born on this date. It is rare to see so many international cricketers born on the same day. Those names too, which have been the best in their respective eras. This date is even more interesting in Indian cricket, because not one or two, but five Indian cricketers celebrate their birthday on 6th December.

5 big names of Team India

Three current stars of Team India, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Shreyas Iyer celebrate their birthday on this day. These three players have been in the category of match-winners for Indian cricket in the last years.

• Jadeja will celebrate his 37th birthday this time.
• Bumrah will be 32 years old.
• Iyer will celebrate his 31st birthday.

Apart from these, Karun Nair, who scored a triple century for India, and RP Singh, who played an important role in India’s victory in the 2007 T20 World Cup, were both born on this day. Meaning, birthdays of five Indian players in one day, which is a record in itself.

Foreign cricketers also make this list strong

6th December does not shine only with Indian names. Many foreign stars are also born on this date. The biggest name among them is Andrew Flintoff, England’s legendary all-rounder, who created history with his performance in the 2005 Ashes. Apart from this, Pakistan’s batsman Nasir Jamshed, New Zealand’s all-rounder Glenn Phillips, and Ireland’s young star Harry Tector also celebrate their birthday on this day.

These players have such a mix of batting, bowling and all-round ability that by combining them a strong international playing-11 can be prepared.

Special playing-11 on 6th December

If the team is made only on the basis of date of birth, then the team of 6th December will look like this,

Nasser Jamshed (Pakistan), Shaun Irvine (Zimbabwe), Shreyas Iyer (India), Harry Tector (Ireland), Karun Nair (India), Glenn Phillips (New Zealand), Andrew Flintoff (England), Ravindra Jadeja (India), Jasprit Bumrah (India), Dewald Pretorius (South Africa), RP Singh (India).

Both the matches of India vs South Africa ODI series have been exciting. Team India won the first match played in Ranchi and South Africa won the second ODI played in Raipur. Now the third match to be held in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, 6th December will be the series decider. Indian players have reached Visakhapatnam, but meanwhile a video of them is going viral on social media. Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma are being taught to climb the escalator by carrying their luggage themselves. This is making fun of the airport management.

Indian players faced problems at the airport

The viral video is said to be of Raipur Airport, where the escalator was not working. Whereas Indian and South African players had reached here only 3 days ago. This video is from the time when Indian players were going from Raipur to Visakhapatnam for the third ODI. It is seen in the video that the escalator is closed and not running.

It is very difficult to climb the escalator with luggage. It is seen in the video that Gautam Gambhir also had to carry his luggage himself. All the players including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma had to carry their luggage on the escalator. Raipur Airport Management is also being made fun of on social media.

This is the escalator at Raipur airport which is not working, because of which the Indian team players have to carry their luggage and walk up. It’s such a big and modern airport, yet they can’t even fix one escalator. And even after knowing that the Indian team was going to… pic.twitter.com/WzcrI6P7uO

— ⁴⁵ (@rushiii_12) December 5, 2025

Tagging the social media page of Raipur Airport, a user wrote, “This is the escalator of Raipur Airport which is not working. Due to which the players of the Indian team have to carry their luggage themselves to go up. This is such a big and modern airport, yet they cannot even get an escalator repaired. Despite knowing that the Indian team is going to come here, they did not get it repaired. How can they create such a big problem?”

IND vs SA: In the second ODI played in Raipur, Team India had to face defeat despite making a big score of 359 runs. Heavy dew and wet ball increased the problems for the Indian bowlers, but the biggest debate was about the slow batting of Ravindra Jadeja. Former all-rounder Irfan Pathan raised direct questions on Jadeja’s ‘intent’ and said that his innings pushed India back.

Where did Jadeja go?

Team India had made a great start to its innings. Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad played balanced batting and scored centuries and gave a steady start to India. In the end, captain KL Rahul also played a stormy innings of unbeaten 66 runs in just 43 balls, taking India’s score beyond 350. After that, Jadeja, who came to bat, scored only 24 unbeaten runs in 27 balls.

Irfan Pathan’s statement

Irfan Pathan looked a bit angry about Jadeja’s slow innings. Irfan said in his show ‘Seedhi Baat’, “Everyone was scoring runs at a fast strike rate, but Jadeja was playing at a strike rate of 88. Playing so slowly in such a strong position hurts the team. Jadeja’s intention was not visible at all.”

He further said that this was not just something he said later, but he had also given the same warning during the commentary.

South Africa showed strength

After India’s batting, it seemed that the match was in hand, but dew changed the whole story. South Africa started cautiously and then Markram, Bavuma, Britzke and Brewis troubled the Indian bowlers a lot.

Along with this, Pathan also praised the South African bowlers. He told that the African bowlers stopped India’s run-flow by giving only 55 runs between 39 and 49 overs. Pathan further said, “If India had reached around 370, the situation could have been different, but South Africa bowled well in the last 10 overs.”

Last Wednesday, the Indian team lost the second ODI by 4 wickets. Team India had scored 358 runs while playing first, but South Africa had set a new record by successfully chasing the target. Now the series is tied at one each, and the series winner will be decided in the last ODI on 6 December. Now former cricketer Irfan Pathan has raised questions on the performance of Ravindra Jadeja.

The Indian team had scored 358 runs in the second ODI match. Actually, at one time a score of 400 runs seemed possible for Team India, but in the last 10 overs the team could score only 74 runs. Jadeja played an innings of 24 runs in 27 balls in the second ODI. Irfan Pathan has criticized this innings of Jadeja.

Irfan Pathan said on his YouTube channel, “I saw a problem. Ravindra Jadeja’s innings, in which he scored 24 runs in 27 balls, seemed very slow. During the commentary, we were saying that this could cause loss to Team India and in the end, that is what happened. If you are in a strong position by scoring above 300 runs and everyone is playing at a strike rate of more than 100, while your strike rate is 88. It becomes clear that there was a lack of urgency in that innings, but Jadeja’s intention was disappointing.

Jadeja could hit only 2 fours in his innings of 24 runs, in which there was not a single six. The result was that the century innings of Virat Kohli (102 runs) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (105 runs) went in vain. Irfan Pathan also said that Jadeja’s inability to increase the pace of runs during the Indian innings proved disappointing for the Indian team.

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Team India is also on the verge of defeat in the second test being played in Guwahati. If the Indian team, which is trailing 0-1 in the series after losing the Kolkata Test, loses this match, then its score will be clean. On the fourth day, South Africa set a target of 549 runs for India. By the end of the day’s play, Team India lost two wickets for 27 runs. Sai Sudarshan and Kuldeep Yadav returned unbeaten. Now on the last day, India has to score 522 runs to win, which is almost impossible. Whereas South Africa has to take 8 wickets to win. After the end of the fourth day’s play, experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja said that the defeat in the series against South Africa will not have much impact. He also stressed that getting a draw in the second test would be like a ‘victory’ for the young team.

We will try to save the test match- Ravindra Jadeja

It is almost certain that India will lose the two-Test series against South Africa, because it will be impossible to achieve the target of 549 runs on the last day. After the end of the fourth day’s play, Jadeja told reporters, “I don’t think it will have any impact on the next series, but as a cricketer no one wants to lose a series, especially in India, so hopefully we will try to play our best cricket. We will try to give our best tomorrow.”

He further said, “We will try to save the Test match. Even if we are not winning the series, we can still draw the match which will be a win-win situation for us.” Jadeja believes that losing the series against South Africa will be a valuable learning experience for the young players in the Indian team. The host team has many young players like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudarshan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Dhruv Jurel and Washington Sundar who are in the initial stages of their Test career.

‘If you lose a series in India it becomes a big deal’

Jadeja said, look at the young players in the team, I think they are in the learning phase. His career is starting. No matter which format you play in international cricket, it is not easy. No matter what format you play, it is always a bit challenging.

Jadeja said that whenever a team loses at home, the lack of experience of the youth makes more headlines than when it wins. He said, when such a situation happens in India and you play three-four young players in the team, then it seems that the entire team is young and less experienced and it is made headlines. But when India wins at home, people think it is not a big deal. If you lose a series in India then it becomes a big deal.