All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja on Wednesday became the second player in India to take 500 wickets and score 5,000 runs in international cricket. He achieved this milestone during Australia’s third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India at Indore. After disallowing Aussie opener Travis Head leg-before-wicket for nine runs from six balls, Jadeja got his 500th international cricket wicket. Jadeja scored 5,527 points in 298 international matches in 241 innings with an average of 33.29. He has scored three hundred and 31 half-centuries, with the best individual score of 175*.
He also took a total of 503 wickets in 298 matches at an average of 29.35 at an economy rate of 3.51. His best bowling figures in innings are 7/42.
He is the only player besides legendary all-rounder and India’s World Cup winning legend Kapil Dev to have a double of 500 international wickets and 5,000 international runs.
Kapil Dev scored a total of 9,031 points in 356 matches, spread over 382 innings with an average of 27.53. He scored nine centuries and 41 half-centuries in his career.
Kapil also took a total of 687 wickets in 356 caps, with a best bowling record of 9/83 in at bats.
In addition to Jadeja and Kapil Dev, the list of all-rounders in international cricket with at least 5,000 international cricket runs and 500 wickets includes Pakistan’s Wasim Akram, Imran Khan and Shahid Afridi, Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan, New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori, England’s Ian Botham , Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis from South Africa and Chaminda Vaas from Sri Lanka.
En route to the match, India was knocked out for just 109 runs in the first innings. Virat Kohli (22) and Shubman Gill (21) were the only batters to cross the 20-run mark as Aussie spinners merry on a spinning lane.
Matthew Kuhnemann took his career best figures of 5/16, while veteran Nathan Lyon also took 3/35. Todd Murphy also got Virat’s prized wicket, getting him dismissed for the third time in the series.
Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja continued his stunning showing with the ball, but a second wicket partnership between Usman Khawaja, who scored a fifty, and Marnus Labuschagne deprived hosts of the chance to continue their dominance over Australia, taking the visitors to 156 /4 went. at the end of the first match day in the third Test at Indore on Wednesday.
At the end of the day, Peter Handscomb (7*) and all-rounder Cameron Green (6*) were undefeated for the Aussies. They lead India by 47 runs.
Usman (60) and Labuschagne (31) played valuable strokes to take the lead at 96 runs for the second wicket to help Australia take the lead.
Jadeja took 4/63 in his 24 overs.
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