When Ravindra Jadeja smashed his third triple ton in first-class cricket — the only Indian to do so — in 2012 against Railways at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, it paved the way for his Test selection. And within a couple of weeks, he played the fourth Test against England at Nagpur.

However, his repeated failure to convert fifties into hundreds, gave rise to doubters and some reckoned that those triple tons were a mere fluke with hardly anyone relying on his contribution as a batsman.