Top 5 highest scores by Ravindra Jadeja in test cricket

Ravindra Jadeja made his test debut in 2012 and has featured in over 70 test matches.

Ravindra Jadeja donned the test cap for the first time in 2012 and soon became a first-choice player in India’s test XI owing to his ability to make contributions in all three departments.

Although as a bowler, he remained under the shadows of R Ashwin for the majority of his career, there were matches in England and South Africa where the southpaw was preferred over the senior off-spinner when India wanted to play four seamers and only one spinner.

While Jadeja’s test career has predominantly been built over his match-winning bowling efforts in Asia, he has also played several crucial knocks with the bat lower down the order.

The rise in his batting over the past eight years has been terrific – since 2016, only in one year (2021), his batting average was below 30. In fact, in five of those years, his batting average was over 40

In this article, we will discuss Jadeja’s top five scores in test cricket.

Top 5 highest scores by Ravindra Jadeja in test cricket

5. 91 vs South Africa, Pune, 2019

In the second test of the IND vs SA series in 2019 at home, Jadeja missed a century by only nine runs in India’s first innings. After a century from opener Mayank Agarwal and a double century from Virat Kohli, Jadeja played an attacking knock of 91 runs off 104 balls with eight fours and two sixes. He got out trying to hit a maximum and was caught at long-off.

India won the match comfortably by an innings and 137 runs.

4. 100* vs West Indies, Rajkot, 2018

Ravindra Jadeja hit his maiden test century at his home ground in Rajkot in 2018 against West Indies. In India’s first innings, he scored 100* off 132 balls, cracking five fours and as many sixes after opener Prithvi Shaw and captain Virat Kohli had slammed their respective centuries.

These three centuries helped India reach 649. The visitors were knocked over for 181 and 196 and India won the match by an innings and 272 runs.

3. 104 vs England, Birmingham, 2022

At Edgbaston in 2022, India found themselves in a precarious situation at 98/5 in their first innings as James Anderson and Matthew Potts routed through the top and middle-order. Then, Jadeja and Rishabh Pant rebuilt India’s innings a counter-attacking partnership of 222 (239). Pant scored 146 (111) and Jadeja scored 104 (194). Jadeja creamed 13 fours in his innings.

Pant and Jadeja’s centuries eventually went in vain as England gunned down the target of 378 runs with seven wickets in hand, courtesy of tons from Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root.

2. 112 vs England, Rajkot, 2024

It’s England again. It’s Rajkot again. In the 2024 IND vs ENG test series, Ravindra Jadeja reeled off a sensational all-round performance that helped India win by a whopping 434 runs.

First, he scored 112 runs off 225 balls in India’s first innings with the help of nine fours and two sixes. Later, in England’s second innings, he ran through their batting order to take five wickets for only 41 runs in 12.4 overs.

1. 175* vs Sri Lanka, Mohali, 2022

This was Ravindra Jadeja’s second test century. Against Sri Lanka in Mohali in 2022, the left-hander registered his highest test score of 175*. In India’s first innings, Jadeja remained unbeaten on 175 off 228 balls, which included 17 fours and three sixes. India posted 574 on the board.

Jadeja then shined with the ball as well by taking nine wickets across Sri Lanka’s two innings. It was a superb one-man show from Jadeja in Mohali as India won by an innings and 222 runs.

(All stats updated till 19th September, 2024)

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