{"id":168523,"date":"2024-10-01T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=168523"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T08:02:14","slug":"all-rounder-ravindra-jadeja-joins-elite-club-in-test-cricket-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/all-rounder-ravindra-jadeja-joins-elite-club-in-test-cricket-history\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Rounder Ravindra Jadeja Joins Elite Club in Test Cricket History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ongoing India vs Bangladesh 2 test match series,&nbsp;<strong>Ravindra Jadeja<\/strong>&nbsp;became the first Indian left arm spinner to take&nbsp;<strong>300 test wickets<\/strong>&nbsp;in Test cricket. The all rounder became the second fastest player who scored 3000 test runs and scalped 300 test wickets. It is a huge achievement for him and he joins the elite list in the history of cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great Feat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s record<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the country\u2019s 92 years cricketing history Ravindra Jadeja became the fourth quickest Indian bowler to take 300 wickets in his 74th test match behind Ravichandran Ashwin (54 Test), Anil Kumble (66 Test), Harbhajan Singh (72 Test).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He joins the elite list of hall of fame in test cricketing history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Overall record<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First Indian Left arm spinner to take 300 test wickets in test cricket.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also became the second fastest cricketer after Sir Ian Botham to take 300 test wickets and scored 3000 test runs.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jadeja achieved this feat in just 74th test match, and he is also ahead of the great names like Kapil Dev (83 Test) and Ashwin (88 Test) who complete this feat in more games than Jadeja.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Career Break up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Test : 300 wickets\/3122 runs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ODI : 220 wickets\/2756 runs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>T20 : 54 wickets\/515 runs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jadeja is now the seventh bowler to bag 300-plus wickets for India in Tests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>24.00 \u2013 Jadeja\u2019s bowling average in Test cricket, the second-best among bowlers with 200-plus wickets for India, marginally behind Ashwin\u2019s 23.69.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing India vs Bangladesh 2 test match series,&nbsp;Ravindra Jadeja&nbsp;became the first Indian left arm spinner to take&nbsp;300 test wickets&nbsp;in Test cricket. The all rounder became the second fastest player who scored 3000 test runs and scalped 300 test wickets. It is a huge achievement for him and he joins the elite list in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":168541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5244],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-168523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2024","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168542,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168523\/revisions\/168542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168523"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=168523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}