Kedar Mahadev Jadhav (born 26 March 1985) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Maharashtra, Kolhapur Tuskers and Royal Challengers Bangalore in domestic cricket.
He has also played for the Indian national cricket team.
He is a right hand batter, who occasionally keeps wickets and bowls right-arm-offspin.
In the Indian Premier League, he had played number of team: Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils and Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Jadhav was born on 26 March 1985 in Pune into a middle-class family which originally hails from Jadhavwadi in Madha in Solapur district.
He is the youngest of four children.
1992
This helped Maharashtra make their first Ranji Trophy final since 1992/93.
Jadhav also represented India A and West Zone cricket team.
2003
His father Mahadev Jadhav was employed as a clerk with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board until his retirement in 2003.
Jadhav lives in the western Pune locality of Kothrud and started playing cricket at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana.
2004
He initially represented Rainbow Cricket Club in tennis ball cricket tournaments, before getting selected for the Maharashtra under-19 team in 2004.
2010
Jadhav, who was initially in the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) development squad, was signed by Delhi Daredevils in 2010.
He made an immediate impact as he scored a 29-ball 50 for Delhi against RCB on his IPL debut.
The following season, he was signed by new franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala, for whom he played only six matches that year.
2012
In 2012, Jadhav made his first triple century, scoring 327, the second-highest by a Maharashtra batsman in the Ranji Trophy, against Uttar Pradesh at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.
2013
During the 2013–14 Ranji Trophy season, he scored 1,223 runs, including six centuries, the fourth-highest runs aggregate in the tournament's history.
In 2013, he was re-signed by Delhi but was not retained by Delhi in the 2014 IPL auction before being bought back by the team for ₹20 million scoring 149 runs in 10 innings in 2014 for Delhi.
2014
Jadhav made his One Day International (ODI) debut for India against Sri Lanka on 16 November 2014 and his T20I debut for India against Zimbabwe on 17 July 2015.
Jadhav was named in the Indian squad for Bangladesh tour in June 2014 but did not get a game.
He played his first international match in November 2014 against Sri Lanka in the fifth match of the Sri Lanks's tour of India at Ranchi, scoring 20 runs off 24 balls before he was out stumped.
2015
Jadhav played in all three ODIs against Zimbabwe in July 2015.
In the third match at Harare, he scored 105 not out off 87 balls, his maiden ODI hundred.
During the tour, he also made his T20I debut.
2016
Ahead of the 2016 IPL, Jadhav was traded to Royal Challengers Bangalore for an undisclosed amount.
2017
He was ranked seventh in The Times of India 's Top 20 Most Desirable Men of Maharashtra in 2017.
In January 2017, Jadhav scored 120 off 76 balls and shared a 200 run partnership with captain Virat Kohli to help India to register a win against England on his home ground.
In the third match of the same series, he scored 90 runs and almost guided India home in a pursuit of 320.
He was dismissed in the second last ball of the innings, and although, India lost the match, Jadhav had by then firmly established his place in the middle order and was awarded the Player of the Series award, having scored 232 runs in the series.
Jadhav went on to represent India in the Champions Trophy 2017 and has been an integral part of the Indian team since.
2018
During the 2018 Asia Cup Final, he had a contribution of 23 runs, staying till the end to help his national side win the trophy for the seventh time.
In 2018, he was picked by Chennai Super Kings but was ruled out of the tournament after tearing his hamstring in the opening match against Mumbai Indians.
In February 2021, Jadhav was bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL auction ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League for INR 2 crores.
He went unsold in the 2022 IPL auctions.
2019
In October 2019, Jadhav was named in India B's squad for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy.
In April 2019, Jadhav was named in India's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
