Left-arm speedster Jaydev Unadkat has said that he recently had a chat with Kumar Sangakkara, the newly-appointed Rajasthan Royals Director of Cricket before the IPL 2021 season and the legend had shared some plans for him, asking him to start afresh as well.

However, Jaydev Unadkat was playing his fourth season with the Royals and he said that he was asked to reset his goals and be the wicket-taker in the powerplay overs as well. Rajasthan Royals have retained the left-arm pace bowler for this season and he did well too. He claimed 4 wickets, including a 3-wicket haul, in 4 matches before the cash-rich league was suspended due to COVID-19.

“Though it was my fourth season with the team, Sangakkara wanted me to start afresh. The management wanted wickets from me with the new ball this season and I was able to do alright on that front whenever I got to play,” Jaydev Unadkat told the Press Trust of India. “It was obviously a tough experience with the thing with the way things were shaping outside the IPL bubble. You were praying for everyone’s well being outside. Inside the bubble, the management was doing all that it could to do to take care of us.”

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While the pacer has been in a good form in recent times, he failed to earn a recall from the selectors of the Indian team. However, he sees himself in his top form for the next 3-4 years as well. Unadkat, who had last played the Test in 2010 and his last appearance came for India in 2018, led Saurashtra to their maiden Ranji Trophy title in 2020 where he claimed a record-breaking 67 wickets as well.

“I will be biased if I talk about my selection. I genuinely believe that I am in a phase of my career where the next three, four years I will be at my prime. I’ve been taking those wickets as well, it actually proves the fact that I am in a good space and I’m finding ways to get people out on different tracks in different conditions. And because of that, I do believe that my time will come,” he further added.

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“The selection again is a tricky thing and normally you would have performance of India A tours to consider besides domestic cricket but that hasn’t happened in pandemic. I just feel more motivated than ever to keep doing what I am doing to keep taking wickets, keep pushing my own limits and pushing those standards higher and higher,” Jaydev Unadkat concluded.