Test The Test Treble, 3000 runs / 300 wickets

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I have been keeping stats on the treble for about 15 years. On the Port board cricket thread I have been talking about Jadeja joining this elite group since February 2021. Here is a cut paste of what I put on there a few hours ago as yesterday Jadeja become the 11th player to join the club.

I reckon it has passed with little fan fair.

Ravi Jadeja in the current test against the Bangers achieved the 3000 runs/300 wicket double in the first innings yesterday when he took his 300th wicket. Half the 1st day was lost and all of Day 2 and Day 3 with rain.

There are now 11 blokes who have done the treble. Jadeja is the 2nd fast to it in 74 tests behind Botham who did it in 72. Jadeja finished his 73rd test with 299 wickets.

February 2021 when I first posted in this (Port board) thread he will probably do the treble, when he only played the middle 2 tests of 4 in the 2020-21 Indian winning series, he was 32 years old, played 51 tests, scored 1,954 runs at 36, with 1 hundred and 15 fifties and 220 wickets at 24. At the time I said he had to make more hundreds to make sure he got to 3000 runs. I have commented about him a few more times and the treble in the last 3.5 years.

He has gone from 51 tests with 1 hundred and 15 fifties
5173191954100*36.18312762.48115

To now in his next 23 Tests and an extra 34 innings hit 3 hundreds and 6 fifties
74107213130175*36.39557456.15421

His bowling has been steady but less effective than in his first 53 Tests and his batting since February 2021.

MatInnsOversMdnsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR510
51972189.355353512207/4810/15424.322.4459.791

Now 23 tests on only taken 83 wickets with only 4 x 5 wicket hails and a 10 wicket match hauls
741402914.471272353037/4210/11023.872.4857.7132

His batting average of 36.39 - bowling average of 23.87 differential = 12.52 is second only to Imran Khan's
37.69 - 22.81 = 14.88. The 3rd best is Shaun Pollock with 9.20.

He and Botham are the only two of these 11 who have in at least 20% of their innings reached 50+ runs.

Jadeja 4 x 100 + 21 x 50 = 25 in 107 innings = 23.4%
Botham 14 x 100 + 22 x 50 = 36 in 161 innings = 22.4%

Imran and Kapil were 19.5% and 19.0% respectively.

Test # that got to
3000/300
300 W
3000 runs
Played​
Botham
72​
72
55​
102​
Ravi Jadeja
74​
74
70​
74*
Imran Khan
75​
68​
75
88​
Kapil Dev
83​
83
73​
131​
Hadlee
83​
61​
83
86​
Pollock
87​
74​
87
108​
Ashwin
88​
54​
88
102*
Vetori
94​
94
89​
113​
Vaas
108​
90​
108
111​
Broad
121​
83​
121
167​
Warne
142​
63​
142
145​

India has won the test vs Bangers after I started typing this, so Jadeja's test record now is
P74 W47, L13, D14 = 63.5% winning percentage.

Which is pretty rare in test cricket for people who have played 50+ tests or even 70+ tests.

Outside the Aussies of the S Waugh / Ponting era there are only a handful of players who have played 50+ tests and had a 60% winning record. I put up some winning percentages in this post on page 351 (of Port board thread)


He also has the 2000/200 double in ODI's but probably wont get to the 3000/300 double like Akram, Pollock, Afridi, Jayasuriya and Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan, as he only has 220 wickets and 2756 runs and he turns 36 in December.

Its a remarkable record that will not make many headlines, but Shane Warne understood how good he was when he gave Ravi the nickname Rockstar when as a 19 year old he played for Warne's team the first year of the IPL in 2008.

The other current player in the list of 11 to have done the treble, R Ashwin's batting has dropped away the last half a dozen years. His 2000+ milestones

2000 runs 51st test 200 wickets 37th test.
300 wickets 54th tests - Hadlee got there in 61 and Warne in 63.
3000 runs 88th test
400 wickets 77th test
500 wickets 98th test

At then end of this test he has played 101 tests scored 3422 runs at average of 26.94, 6 x 100's and 14 50's and 522 wickets at an average of 23.70 37 x 5W/inn and 8 x 10w/match

P101, W61, L24, D17 = 60.4%

The only other Indian to win 60% of his tests who has played 50+ tests is medium fast bowler Umesh Yadav who debut in 2011 and still playing but hasn't played a test for over 12 months.

P57, W35, L13, D9 = 61.4%

KL Rahul is close as it gets to 60% winning record, P52, W31, L13, D8 = 59.6%
 
I have been keeping stats on the treble for about 15 years. On the Port board cricket thread I have been talking about Jadeja joining this elite group since February 2021. Here is a cut paste of what I put on there a few hours ago as yesterday Jadeja become the 11th player to join the club.

I reckon it has passed with little fan fair.

Ravi Jadeja in the current test against the Bangers achieved the 3000 runs/300 wicket double in the first innings yesterday when he took his 300th wicket. Half the 1st day was lost and all of Day 2 and Day 3 with rain.

There are now 11 blokes who have done the treble. Jadeja is the 2nd fast to it in 74 tests behind Botham who did it in 72. Jadeja finished his 73rd test with 299 wickets.

February 2021 when I first posted in this (Port board) thread he will probably do the treble, when he only played the middle 2 tests of 4 in the 2020-21 Indian winning series, he was 32 years old, played 51 tests, scored 1,954 runs at 36, with 1 hundred and 15 fifties and 220 wickets at 24. At the time I said he had to make more hundreds to make sure he got to 3000 runs. I have commented about him a few more times and the treble in the last 3.5 years.

He has gone from 51 tests with 1 hundred and 15 fifties
5173191954100*36.18312762.48115

To now in his next 23 Tests and an extra 34 innings hit 3 hundreds and 6 fifties
74107213130175*36.39557456.15421

His bowling has been steady but less effective than in his first 53 Tests and his batting since February 2021.

MatInnsOversMdnsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR510
51972189.355353512207/4810/15424.322.4459.791

Now 23 tests on only taken 83 wickets with only 4 x 5 wicket hails and a 10 wicket match hauls
741402914.471272353037/4210/11023.872.4857.7132

His batting average of 36.39 - bowling average of 23.87 differential = 12.52 is second only to Imran Khan's
37.69 - 22.81 = 14.88. The 3rd best is Shaun Pollock with 9.20.

He and Botham are the only two of these 11 who have in at least 20% of their innings reached 50+ runs.

Jadeja 4 x 100 + 21 x 50 = 25 in 107 innings = 23.4%
Botham 14 x 100 + 22 x 50 = 36 in 161 innings = 22.4%

Imran and Kapil were 19.5% and 19.0% respectively.

Test # that got to
3000/300
300 W
3000 runs
Played​
Botham
72​
72
55​
102​
Ravi Jadeja
74​
74
70​
74*
Imran Khan
75​
68​
75
88​
Kapil Dev
83​
83
73​
131​
Hadlee
83​
61​
83
86​
Pollock
87​
74​
87
108​
Ashwin
88​
54​
88
102*
Vetori
94​
94
89​
113​
Vaas
108​
90​
108
111​
Broad
121​
83​
121
167​
Warne
142​
63​
142
145​

India has won the test vs Bangers after I started typing this, so Jadeja's test record now is
P74 W47, L13, D14 = 63.5% winning percentage.

Which is pretty rare in test cricket for people who have played 50+ tests or even 70+ tests.

Outside the Aussies of the S Waugh / Ponting era there are only a handful of players who have played 50+ tests and had a 60% winning record. I put up some winning percentages in this post on page 351 (of Port board thread)


He also has the 2000/200 double in ODI's but probably wont get to the 3000/300 double like Akram, Pollock, Afridi, Jayasuriya and Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan, as he only has 220 wickets and 2756 runs and he turns 36 in December.

Its a remarkable record that will not make many headlines, but Shane Warne understood how good he was when he gave Ravi the nickname Rockstar when as a 19 year old he played for Warne's team the first year of the IPL in 2008.

The other current player in the list of 11 to have done the treble, R Ashwin's batting has dropped away the last half a dozen years. His 2000+ milestones

2000 runs 51st test 200 wickets 37th test.
300 wickets 54th tests - Hadlee got there in 61 and Warne in 63.
3000 runs 88th test
400 wickets 77th test
500 wickets 98th test

At then end of this test he has played 101 tests scored 3422 runs at average of 26.94, 6 x 100's and 14 50's and 522 wickets at an average of 23.70 37 x 5W/inn and 8 x 10w/match

P101, W61, L24, D17 = 60.4%

The only other Indian to win 60% of his tests who has played 50+ tests is medium fast bowler Umesh Yadav who debut in 2011 and still playing but hasn't played a test for over 12 months.

P57, W35, L13, D9 = 61.4%

KL Rahul is close as it gets to 60% winning record, P52, W31, L13, D8 = 59.6%

He’s a fantastic player and you wonder how much better his record could look if Ashwin wasn’t around as the main spinning option.
 
very under rated cricketer to most people outside of india.

superstar and maybe doesn't get the plaudits he deserves.
could and has batted in the top 6 with ease.

his batting and bowling averages align with imran and miller and pretty much on the tier below sobers and kallis.

not sure how they can leave one of jadeja/ashwin out of the test side at times.
there's room for both and they can still play 3 quicks if they choose because of their batting.
 

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Jadeja has been on my radar since the olden days scoring three fc triple hundreds. He’s played surprisingly few tests at this stage, rohit sharma is another.

He bats lower than he could, otherwise those 4 test hundreds might have been more - ashwin has 6 batting in the same sort of position but sir Jadeja is the better batsman.
 
Jadeja has been on my radar since the olden days scoring three fc triple hundreds. He’s played surprisingly few tests at this stage, rohit sharma is another.

He bats lower than he could, otherwise those 4 test hundreds might have been more - ashwin has 6 batting in the same sort of position but sir Jadeja is the better batsman.

Jadeja’s runs have generally been the more meaningful off the top of my head. Ashwin’s have come mostly against my mob and from memory the majority of those have rarely been in any sort of pressure situation
 
Jadeja’s runs have generally been the more meaningful off the top of my head. Ashwin’s have come mostly against my mob and from memory the majority of those have rarely been in any sort of pressure situation
He’s the Indian Jason Holder batting wise
 
I looked at Jarrod Kimber's youtube channel and twitter to see what he said about Jadeja doing the treble and any analytics he put together.

No video, but in March 2023 after the end of the India v Oz series in India, he put this one below on Jadeja together.

He did another one asking if he makes the top 5 test players ever in Asia, which praises him but isn't as good as it only looks at players record in Asia and he hadn't at that stage played tests in Pakistan and Bangladesh and only 2 or 3 in Sri Lanka. Kimber sneaks him into the top 5 which is still a fair effort.

Kimber asks if he is the Most Valuable Player in Test Cricket in March 2023, and uses his record since 2018? He comes to the conclusion that he might not be the best Test player, but argues he is the MVP.

He mentions in the video that Jadeja has missed a lot of tests. Since that video he has played 10 of India's next 12 tests, missing the 2nd v SAF in Newlands and the 2nd test v England of 5 tests in India, at the start of 2024.







Bugger it, here is Kimber's best player in Asia video.


 
I should have looked up ESPN Cricinfo articles before I made my post and linked it. This is the article they produced when Jadeja achieved the treble, on 30th September.

There are a number of stats in the article but this one intrigued me the most.



Setting up in the first innings​

Highest difference in bat and bowl averages in the first innings in Tests*
PlayerMatRunsBat Av100sWktsBowl Av5WIAve Diff
Ravindra Jadeja742,59845.57415725.87719.69
Imran Khan882,75639.94522722.911317.03
Shaun Pollock1082,68634.88225523.05911.82
Ian Botham1023,67136.711126228.24188.46
Richard Hadlee862,30730.35228922.76257.58

*Minimum of 1500-plus runs and 150-plus wickets

That means Jadeja's differential split is quiet big for batting between 1st and 2nd innings, but similar for his bowling.

Above stat was before he batted in the first innings where he made 8, did not bat in the second innings and took 3/34 in Bangladesh's 2nd innings.

Batting

SpanMatInnsNORunsHSAvgBFSR100s50s0s4s6s
1st team innings2012-20247472142606175*44.93465955.93419525652
2nd team innings2013-2024543575246818.7191557.260225314

Bowling
SpanMatInnsOversMdnsRunsWktsBBIBBMAvgEconSR5w10w
1st team innings2012-202474731590.333940631576/6310/11025.872.5560.772
2nd team innings2012-202470671324.137331721467/4210/11021.722.3954.462
 

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