India v New Zealand ODI series – Combined XI

6. Kedar Jadhav:

He was the surprise package for India, especially with his skillful bowling. Before the series, he was not known for his spin bowling and Dhoni brought him on as an experiment in the first ODI and he responded with 2 key wickets. He picked up 6 wickets in 4 innings at an excellent average of 12.16 with just 4.05 runs per over.

With the bat too, he played a couple of useful innings and scored 90 runs in 4 innings by getting dismissed on just 2 occasions. His innings of 39 runs off 37 balls in the last match was a top knock which took India to a total of 269 runs that proved to be more than enough at the end.