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Ravindra Jadeja - Second fastest to get 300 wickets and 3000 runs in Test cricket

One my favourite ind players or cricket players for that matter. Smart, professional and always contributing to the team’s cause.
A complete cricketer with a thinking mind.
I am sure someone would have mentioned his three triple hundreds in domestic. His career is outstanding because he won u19, is a ranji legend, performed exceptionally well for ind in 3 formats in every aspect for a good 12-15 years.
 
Obaidd said:
One my favourite ind players or cricket players for that matter. Smart, professional and always contributing to the team’s cause.
A complete cricketer with a thinking mind.
I am sure someone would have mentioned his three triple hundreds in domestic. His career is outstanding because he won u19, is a ranji legend, performed exceptionally well for ind in 3 formats in every aspect for a good 12-15 years.
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He is very good but he played two U-19, ideally one should play just one, he lost the first U-19 when Anwar banana swung us out of the tournament in the final.
 
Jadeja has scored more runs taken more wickets than anyone playing this test series (both teams included) How many times has that hapoened before in history?
 
RyanRyan10 said:
I also want that but which of the 3 targets I mentioned, you think he can achieve?
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He will achieve 100 tests first, after that if he continues then 5000 runs and finally 400 wickets. He should achieve it in 105 tests.
 
A little strange comment from Ajit Agarkar, he is very much in World Cup plan but can’t pick him for ODI squad to tour Australia?
 
light said:
You want my honest opinion, out of all the Indian players, Jedeja is my least favorite so I donno man, I was never able to like this guy so my answer is always biased, LOL. It has alot to do with initially he was a good for nothing player, only his fielding was a plus point. Very slowly he was able to improve his skills.

IMO Shakib is a much better player with both bat/ball/skills than Jadu and if Shakib was Indian, Jadeja would not find a place in the indian team. There is a podcast by Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid where they also conveyed this same thing. However, I think if Jadeja played for a team like Bangladesh, he would probably have similar stats like Shakib - because they would rely alot on him compared to team India, whereas in team India, we have so many match winners. Jadeja is just one guy among great players.

You can rely on Shakib (prime form - not now) to win you games with both Bat/Ball which he did often when BD won. With Jadeja, this is not a thing. He is a contributer in a larger pool. Shakib on the other hand is the whole god damn contribution most of the time. That itself matters alot.
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Shakib is inferior bowler and fielder compared to Jadeja. Shakib batted in top 5/6 and was a premier player in his mediocre team allowing him opportunities to bat up the order and bowl at his will. He was also captain for a considerable amount of time and didn’t have any other mayor bowler with whom he had to share his wickets. Jadeja was one of many superstars on the team and throughout his career played second fiddle to Ashwin on spin friendly pitches and to Bumrah and others in seam friendly ones. Moreover he has played higher percentage of his matches against top teams unlike Shakib who played minimally with England, Australia and India/ SA (not due to his mistake). Even with that Jadeja has superior bowling stats whereas Shakib is mediocre and now even has better batting stats. Skill and performance wise Jadeja is far superior to Shakib.
 
light said:
You want my honest opinion, out of all the Indian players, Jedeja is my least favorite so I donno man, I was never able to like this guy so my answer is always biased, LOL. It has alot to do with initially he was a good for nothing player, only his fielding was a plus point. Very slowly he was able to improve his skills.
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maybe you got influenced by sir jadeja memes or something cuz he was always pretty good. The criticism he got was unjustified imo. What did he do wrong exactly?
 
Jadeja should just stick to test cricket now... I think India has better players for white ball cricket than Jadeja atm..
 
Ab Fan said:
A little strange comment from Ajit Agarkar, he is very much in World Cup plan but can’t pick him for ODI squad to tour Australia?
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Horses for courses. Jadeja has been utterly poor in Aus as a bowler. And his batting is surplus in ODI format. He did do well last time with the bat though.
 
SportsWarrior said:
Shakib is inferior bowler and fielder compared to Jadeja. Shakib batted in top 5/6 and was a premier player in his mediocre team allowing him opportunities to bat up the order and bowl at his will. He was also captain for a considerable amount of time and didn’t have any other mayor bowler with whom he had to share his wickets. Jadeja was one of many superstars on the team and throughout his career played second fiddle to Ashwin on spin friendly pitches and to Bumrah and others in seam friendly ones. Moreover he has played higher percentage of his matches against top teams unlike Shakib who played minimally with England, Australia and India/ SA (not due to his mistake). Even with that Jadeja has superior bowling stats whereas Shakib is mediocre and now even has better batting stats. Skill and performance wise Jadeja is far superior to Shakib.
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Good points.

Had Jadeja consistently batted at 5 or 6, he would have been averaging in early to mid 40s, probably even higher.

Jadeja averages a scarcely believable 57 batting at no.6 with 10 50+ scores out of 28 innings. He has the highest avg of any Indian no.6 in test history (minimum 500 runs) too.

Imagine what a resource was being wasted by India while trying to have "speshulist" batters at no.6 who were utterly mediocre (especially Rahane).
 
I don't believe for a second that Axar is a better replacement in ODIs. Axar's batting average is 22 in ODIs and bowling wise, he's pretty much the same in terms of ER and wickets.

In fact, Jadeja has 2 5fers in ODIs and quite a few 4fers. Even at 36/37, he's a better fielder than Axar. I have no idea what Gambhir sees in Axar to give him preferential treatment.
 
Do you agree with Ravi Shastri? This is what he said about Jadeja.

"I have seen Kallis, I've also seen Stokes, but honestly nobody is as good as Ravindra Jadeja".
 
hassan918 said:
Do you agree with Ravi Shastri? This is what he said about Jadeja.

"I have seen Kallis, I've also seen Stokes, but honestly nobody is as good as Ravindra Jadeja".
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Jadeja is better than Stokes, for sure.

Kallis is not in the same category as Jadeja, as in, he was a batting all rounder. Is he more valuable than Jadeja? Definitely, on pitches in SENA.

Jadeja beats Kallis in the subcontinent.
 
If he ends up with an avg of 40 no one will be able to deny his ATG stature.

I do think he is already an ATG but opinion amongst posters are divided.
 
JaDed said:
He is very good but he played two U-19, ideally one should play just one, he lost the first U-19 when Anwar banana swung us out of the tournament in the final.
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I think that rule came in around 2018 or so with Rahul Dravid at the helm. A good rule!
 
He surely is the best fielder of any all rounder lists of any era that one can come up with :faf .

Love the Swordsman celebration when he gets 50 or 100!
 
bunda_bindaas said:
I don't believe for a second that Axar is a better replacement in ODIs. Axar's batting average is 22 in ODIs and bowling wise, he's pretty much the same in terms of ER and wickets.

In fact, Jadeja has 2 5fers in ODIs and quite a few 4fers. Even at 36/37, he's a better fielder than Axar. I have no idea what Gambhir sees in Axar to give him preferential treatment.
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Axar is perceived to be the more aggressive of the 2. Jadeja usually takes his time to get going.
 
bunda_bindaas said:
Jadeja is better than Stokes, for sure.

Kallis is not in the same category as Jadeja, as in, he was a batting all rounder. Is he more valuable than Jadeja? Definitely, on pitches in SENA.

Jadeja beats Kallis in the subcontinent.
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Not a fair comparison. Kallis was someone who got 200+ wickets because he played a truckload of teat matches. He averaged just 1.75 wickets per test which means SA was never really anywhere near reliant on him as a bowler.

But India is hugely reliant on Jaddu the batter as well as the bowler.
 
Sir Alex said:
Good points.

Had Jadeja consistently batted at 5 or 6, he would have been averaging in early to mid 40s, probably even higher.

Jadeja averages a scarcely believable 57 batting at no.6 with 10 50+ scores out of 28 innings. He has the highest avg of any Indian no.6 in test history (minimum 500 runs) too.

Imagine what a resource was being wasted by India while trying to have "speshulist" batters at no.6 who were utterly mediocre (especially Rahane).
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Yeah, being a spinner he could have batted at 5 for India. He has all the ingredients to be a successful player at 5. He has decent technique against both spin and seam, can accelerate if the team is doing well and can defend well when they are in trouble. He is left handed providing variety in the middle order and is very fit allowing him to bat longer. If Pant can succeed at 5 after keeping for 90+ overs, Jadeja can too.

His bowling also devolved into more defensive one due to lot of attacking bowlers like Ashwin, Bumrah, Kuldeep etc. in his youth he used to be much more attacking although had less variety.

Shakib is none of these. He is a decent serviceable player. His bowling average is very mediocre considering he played a large portion of his career with n spin friendly pitches with he being the team’s first choice spinner. His batting average is decent again due to opportunities in top order and lack of exposure against truly great bowling in testing conditions. Opposition and conditions are not in his control but record is still mediocre and cannot be counted among top players.

There isn’t a single team, apart from BD all time XI, where Shakib gets in and Jadeja doesn’t. By the end of his career he will be the only choice if any world XI ever needs a left arm spinner just like how Wasim will be the only left arm seamer that will make into world XI if they need one
 
Jadeja is equal to Botham as a test player. He has left Shakib well behind in Tests.
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
If he ends up with an avg of 40 no one will be able to deny his ATG stature.

I do think he is already an ATG but opinion amongst posters are divided.
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There shouldn’t be any doubt on this anymore. You are getting a Botham/kapil level cricketer.
 
With Jadeja , most of his runs have been under clutch , tough conditions. This century too came when India were in a spot of bother with 4 down for 200 something. No soft runs for him.

The best thing about Jadeja is the assured feeling he provides at the crease. There is a certain calm and certainty.
 
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