Jadeja Carried Injury to Australia, was unfit for perth.

The Thinking behind leaving Ravindra Jadeja out of the perth is getting murkier. Soon after defeat skipper Virat Kohil specified that the four pronged pace attack was picked purely on condition rather than fitness and form that he would have over-looked lead spinner R. Ashwin even if he had fully fit,implying that jadeja didn't stand a chance of playing. But three days before the third test, Coach Ravi Shastri contradicted the captain and gave a fresh spin to the debate, Saying Jadeja was only "70 to 80 percent fit" at Perth and carrying a Shoulder stifness from Domestic Cricket.Thus,in trying to defend the selection faux pas, he has prompted questions on a range of issues, ranging from player injury management system to the contradiction in the voice of the coach and captain, workload management and the tendency to hush-up injuries.

The team has been copping flak, especially from former cricketers back home for playing a four pronged pace attack in the Perth Test, where a spinner was dearly missed. Since Ashwin was ruled out due to  injury, the obivious alternative was jadeja.But Shastri,with characteristic gung-ho style, came up with a reason. "Problem with Jaddu was that he had taken an injection four days into coming to Australia because of some stifness in his Shoulders, and it took a while for that injections to settle down. So when you look at Perth, we felt he has 70 to 80 percent fit, and we didn't want to risk that".

What's even more shocking is that despite the stifness which According to Shastri. Jadeja picked before a domestic game he played only one between the west indies series and the Australia tour. Where in he scored unbeaten 178 and bowled 64 overs. He boarded the flight to Australia . It wasn't as if the management was unware  of his injury. But they thought at least according to Shastri  he will recover in time for the series. When he came here he felt some stiffness and he felt that  in India as well. But he played domestic cricket after that. He was injected again and it take time to settled.