India allrounder is one of 11 players with the double of scoring 3000 runs and taking 300 wickets
Sampath Bandarupalli30-Sep-20241:19
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11 – Ravindra Jadeja is now one of 11 players with the double of scoring 3000-plus runs and taking 300-plus wickets in Test cricket. Only two Indians have done this double before Jadeja – Kapil Dev and R Ashwin.74 – Number of Test matches Jadeja took to complete the double of 3000-plus runs and 300-plus wickets. He is the second quickest to the feat by matches, after Ian Botham (72).Jadeja has a difference of 12.72 between his batting and bowling averages, the second highest among the 11 players with this feat, behind Imran Khan’s 14.88.Related
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2 – Number of left-arm spinners with 300-plus wickets in Test cricket before Jadeja. Daniel Vettori was the first to get there, who finished with 362 wickets, while Rangana Herath topped him with 433 scalps.19.69 – Difference in batting and bowling averages of Jadeja in the first innings in Tests, the highest among the 15 players to have scored 1500-plus runs and taken 150-plus wickets.