Rajasthan Royals (RR) spinner Ravindra Jadeja gave Gujarat Titans (GT) batter Jos Buttler an animated send-off when the two teams locked horns in an IPL 2026 encounter in Jaipur on Saturday.
Ravindra Jadeja is known for his trademark sword celebration whenever he achieves a milestone like hitting a fifty or a century.
However, during Saturday's match, Jadeja had a different celebration when he dismissed Jos Buttler.
Ravindra Jadeja's send-off after Jos Buttler dismissal
He dismissed Buttler in the 14th over of the Gujarat Titans innings. Jadeja delivered a full length ball outside the off stump, and Buttler went down the ground. However, he mistimed the shot and eventually holed it out to Donovan Ferreira who took a catch at long-off.
As Buttler made his long walk back, the Saurashtra all-rounder slipped his hand into is pocket, thus giving the England batter a fiery send-off.
This, however, is not the first time that Jadeja has brought up this celebration. Jadeja had brought up the same celebration when he dismissed Nicholas Pooran when RR played Lucknow Super Giants earlier in the season.
In T20s, Buttler and Jadeja have faced off in 12 innings, with the former aggregating 82 runs from 66 balls. Jadeja has dismissed him thrice. Rajasthan Royals, however, went onto lose Saturday's match by 77 runs. Gujarat Titans won the toss and opted to bat first.
Openers Sai Sudharsan (55) and Shubman Gill (84) scored half-centuries to power GT to 229/4. In their reply, Rajasthan Royals were bowled out for 152 in 16.3 overs, with Rashid Khan being the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4/33.
After the match, GT’s Rashid Khan mocked Jadeja’s celebration, where the Afghanistan spinner showed a writing of two points in GT’s pocket.
The win took Gujarat Titans (GT) to second place in the IPL 2026 standings with 14 points from 11 matches, whereas Rajasthan Royals were down to fifth place with 12 points from 11 matches.
