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Ajay Jadeja

Ajaysinhji Jadeja ( born 1 February 1971), known as Ajay Jadeja, is an Indian former professional cricketer. He was a regular member of the Indian cricket team in the One Day International (ODI) format between 1992 and 2000. He played fifteen Test matches and 196 ODIs for India. He also occasionally captained the India national cricket team. He was part of the Indian squad which won the 1995 Asia Cup. Presently, Jadeja is working with the Afghanistan cricket team as the team mentor.

Due to his alleged involvement in match fixing, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) life banned him from cricket on 3 June 2000; later the BCCI reduced the to five years. On 27 January 2003, a Delhi court lifted the ban. However, Jadeja was not able to play again for Indian cricket team.

After he quit playing cricket, he worked as coach of the Delhi cricket team around 2015. In the 2000s he acted in few Bollywood movies, appeared as contestant in dance reality show ''Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'' and worked as pundit for SET Max, AajTak, NDTV India etc. various times. Provided by Wikipedia