India spinner Ravindra Jadeja will be fit for the Boxing Day test against Australia. According to BCCI, he will available for selection in the third Test match in Melbourne starting December 26.
Earlier, Jadeja and R Ashwin were reported to be under an injury cloud ahead of the Boxing Day test against Australia, leaving the tourists with a potential selection conundrum.
India coach Ravi Shastri said offspinner Ashwin was still recovering from an abdominal strain that caused him to miss the second test in Perth, while left-arm spinner Jadeja had been nursing a shoulder problem.
Shastri revealed that Jadeja's injury had also ruled him out at Perth Stadium, where India went with a four-prong pace attack and duly slumped to a 146-run loss that levelled the four-test series 1-1.
The announcement from BCCI comes hours after coach Ravi Shastri's revealation that Jadeja was not fit for Perth Test as he failed to recover from injury that happened before coming to Australia.
"The problem with Jaddu (Jadeja) is that he had taken an injection four days into coming to Australia, because of some stiffness in the shoulder and it took a while for that injection to settle down," Shastri told reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
"So when you look at Perth, we felt that he was maybe 60-70 percent fit and that we didn't want to risk that in Perth. If he was 80 percent fit here (MCG), he will play."
However, the statement came under fire as Jadeja was not only named in the 13-man squad for Perth but also fielded as a substitute during the match.
