The year 2018 feels like a lifetime ago. Back then, Ravindra Jadeja marked his maiden Test hundred in Rajkot with five powerful sixes that ripped through the West Indies attack. On Friday in Ahmedabad, against the very same opponents, 'Sir' Jadeja pulled out the exact same number, hammering five maximums en route to his sixth Test century, ending the day with a 104 to his name and marking India's 3rd century of the innings. In the process, the veteran all-rounder equalled his own feat that he had set 7 years ago, setting a record.

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While the cricket world is currently buzzing about Jadeja overtaking MS Dhoni to claim the title of India's fourth-most prolific six-hitter in Test history, the Thalapathy has quietly achieved another remarkable feat: he is now the first Indian player ever to hit five or more sixes in a Test innings against the West Indies on two separate occasions.

In his home state of Gujarat, Jaddu had scored a blistering knock of 100* in 132 balls against the West Indies that included 5 maximums, a showing of raw emotions. 7 years later, in the same state, Sir Ravindra Jadeja, against the same opposition, has pulled off a similar feat. This time, however, he took out his emotions on his Caribbean counterpart, Jomel Warrican. It was almost as if Ravindra Jadeja was giving his fellow left-arm spinner a lesson on how not to bowl on an Ahmedabad pitch.

It is perhaps fitting that this achievement is closely tied to his former skipper and mentor, MS Dhoni. Dhoni himself holds the record for the most sixes hit by an Indian in a single Test innings against the West Indies, when he smashed six maximums in his 69-run blitz at St. John's way back in 2006.

The new statistic that highlights Jadeja's power is even more niche. His five sixes off spinner Jomel Warrican in Ahmedabad have made him the joint second-most successful Indian batter to target a single opposition bowler in a Test innings, a list topped only by Dhoni’s six hits off Dave Mohammed. The batter Jadeja is tied at 2nd with none other than Rishabh Pant, who hit the Englishman Jack Leach for 5 sixes in a remarkable innings at the M. Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. India lost that match by a mammoth 221 runs thanks to Joe Root's marathon innings. But Rishabh Pant managed to get 91 runs in an innings where he hit Leach for 5 maximums.