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Ravindra Jadeja has been the butt of a lot of jokes, a LOT. This balderdash continues in spite of his awesome performance at the recent matches for the Indian Cricket team. Following are a few examples (admittedly funny one) sourced from another website, pertaining to mockery of Jadeja.

“When Sir Ravindra Jadeja first travelled to Sri Lanka to play in yet another of those meaningless ODI series, Shahid Afridi was yet to come out of his 2nd retirement, Tiger Woods was yet to be accused of infidelity, Balotelli had never earned a red card & Kristen Stewart was still a virgin.

When Jadeja embarked on a glorious career taming Kulasekara & co., Poonam Pandey was a name unheard of; Suresh Raina’s nephew was in his nappies; baby Bachchan was still a stray sperm swimming in AB’s pelvic cavity & SRK was yet to promote Ra.One.

It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Jadeja. We’ve had champions, we’ve had legends, but we’ve never had a Jadeja & we never will.” – Time magazine.

I think the last one pretty much sums it up. Yes, the above is a fabricated bit to invoke a sense of comedy into harsh subtext of criticism thrown his way but nevertheless one has to wonder, “Is he truly that out of shape and devoid of good form?” Sure Ravindra Jadeja profile has ranked up some pretty bad statistics and at one painfully sad point his bowling has been termed the worst in history.

He has been maligned, made fun of and painted in a very unflattering light, all because of a few (though conspicuous) hits and misses. Who among us haven’t had a bad day? Which cricket player in history has had a successive run in every single match of his life? No one! Everyone is due their shortfalls and slip ups, sooner or later. Jadeja’s bad bowling attacks have often eclipsed his excellent batting prowess. Let us not forget that he managed an amazing feat of scoring his not first, but third triple century, when he was just twenty three. No other Indian has recorded such an astounding batsman ship and only seven other players in the cricket history are credited with three triple centuries. The constant pressure to live up to the legacy left by their erstwhile successful predecessors is too much of a burden on younger and contemporary players like Ravindra Jadeja. It will serve well if the Indian cricket fans are more accommodating and forgiving with respect to the players.

Indian cricketer and right handed middle order batsman, Cheteshwar Pujara is the one of the best things that has happened to the Indian cricket team. He is a shining beacon of light in these dark times and a tower of refuge as the team stumbles on to find their storm hold. Only a few years into the cricket world and he has already a number of records to his credit. He holds the record for scoring triple centuries within a month. He scored his first double century against England at Ahmadabad in November 2012. He was also the highest scored with three and a half centuries to his credit during the 2012 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy.

But the biggest highlight of his life this year was his wedding. Cheteshwar Pujara tied the marital knot with his fiancé, Puja Pabar,i on February 13, 2013. It looks like Valentine’s Day came twenty four hours early for these two love birds. The whole wedding that started on 12 February 2013 went on for three whole days keeping in terms with the rituals of the north Indian traditional weddings. On the first day it was a function often referred to as the ‘Sangeet Sandhya’ with Wedding vows and nuptial rituals the next day and it was followed by a grand reception the day after. His wife is Management graduate from Gujarat’s Jamnagar district. The wedding ceremony took place at 8.15 pm in a private place on Kalawad Road. There were many other traditional wedding ceremonies that took place over the span of those three days.

Arvind Pujara, Cheteshwar’s father had informed that the entire Indian cricket team and the officials of the BCCI were invited. A few of the invited had turned up for the reception but most of them decide to give the function a miss as they had to immerse themselves in preparing for the Series against the team from ‘down under’. Pujara himself missed a couple of important matches such as the Irani Trophy match against Mumbai and the Board President XI tie against Australia but givene the circumstances, it is easily forgivable. Cheteshwar Pujara profile has a tally of 761 runs to date and he intends to add to it greatly in the years to come.

The newlyweds will have to cut their honey moon period short as he is slated to join the Indian team to play in the test series, by February 15.