Hailing from a small town of Madha in Solapur district of Maharashtra, Kedar Jadhav’s father was a clerk in the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. Unlike his three elder sisters, Jadhav was not interested in education and did not go to school after the ninth grade. After playing good cricket for a Pune club, Jadhav was drafted into the state U-19 team in 2004 and silently went about his business, being a consistent run-getter for the Maharashtra side in every opportunity that he got.
In 2012, Jadhav made a triple century- a 327 run knock and carried his form into the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season where he was the leading run scorer. It took 10 long years for the underrated batsman in the Maharashtra team to be noticed by the selection panel. It was in 2013 that Jadhav played in his first IPL with the Delhi Daredevils and after full utilization of every opportunity that came his way, Jadhav made his international debut in 2014.
He followed that up with an impressive showing in the IPL, with 149 runs from 10 innings at 29.80 and strike-rate of 147.52, the highest among all Delhi Daredevils batsmen. But there is a special century that proved to be a turning point in Jadhav’s career - the innings of 120* which he played against defending champions Mumbai in the quarter-final of the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy.
