Players with 3000+ runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket featuring Ravindra Jadeja

Test cricket is best cricket, they say and they say so for a good reason. Not only is this cricket's sternest ask of its dutiful practitioners but to excel in Test cricket, more often than not, means having passed the sport's most challenging litmus contest. It is a contest of nerves and it is a test of one's patience. Several cricketers, have over the course of the past several decades, cut their teeth in high class competitive Test match cricket, but only a few, a chosen few have emerged with an achievement that could be equated to being in possession of timeless diamonds. It being related to players with 3000+ runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket and what's further interesting is that the current list has had a latest inductee, a great talent in the form of an exceptional Indian all-rounder.

All of that being told, let us pay our genuine regard to the list of cricketers who have accomplished 3000+runs and 300 plus wickets in Test cricket, a list comprising Ravindra Jadeja.

Detailing a few big players with 3000+ runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket

Shane Warne

The great Shane Warne was and will always be regarded as a trailblazing talent who at his peak, held great battles with three of world cricket's greatest ever batters, including - Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, and Jacques Kallis.

Warne, clearly, the highest wicket taker in Test match cricket for Australia claimed over 700 Test match dismissals, claiming north of 1000 international wickets, on the whole.

His is an action that is still widely emulated for its effervescence and for it being a cult. Warne's been a legend of the game whose unfettered excellence quite simply raised the bar of competence around the cricketing world.

Ravindra Jadeja

For times to come the list of players with 3000+runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket featuring Ravindra Jadeja will continue to be regarded as an elite list for having a cricketer widely loved in its ranks - the man ardently regarded as 'Sir' Jadeja, a sobriquet formed playfully but in pure respect for the left-hander.

If there was a particular evidence marking the cult of the great man, then go no further than the recently concluded Manchester Test match at Old Trafford where a timely century in the third innings and on the fifth day, helped India draw a fierce contest with England. With Jadeja playing a great hand in helping India elope a precarious situation.

A constantly active, frequently wicket taking bowling all rounder whose batting is no slouch in the game, Jadeja is as uniquely talented in the sport as he is agile on the ground. Such a legend!

Chaminda Vaas

A high class, world-beating and batter-attacking fast bowler of sublime skill and redoubtable talent, Vaas, with his smooth and clean bowling action was a peril nightmare for some of the best batters of their time.

He happens to be one of the few cricketers with the rare accomplishment of 3000+ runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket.

He was and will always be regarded as a stalwart of Sri Lankan cricket, whose exceptional fast bowling skills were responsible for the rise of cricket in the region and for his team's ascendency in world cricket.

Imran Khan

Still widely celebrated for his inspirational leadership, back in the eighties, Imran Khan galvanised a new breed of talented and rising Pakistani cricketers and was himself responsible for a great Test career that featured from 88 contests 362 wicket and 3807 runs.

His fast bowling was hard to score off from, and at his peak, he enjoyed troubling some of the best and most successful batters of the game such as the great Sachin Tendulkar, Carl Hooper, and even Sir Ian Botham.

Pakistan cricket has had many leaders but none much taller in reputation and standing in the game as the great Imran Khan.

Below is the tabulated list of all the players with 3000+ runs and 300+ wickets in Test cricket:

FAQs

What is the great Imran Khan's Test accomplishments in terms of runs and wickets taken

The former great Pakistan all-rounder claimed 362 Test wickets from just 88 games, in addition to hitting 3807 runs.

Which famous South African is on the list of 3000 Plus Test runs and over 300 Test wickets?

The utter gentle giant of the game, Shaun Pollock, also fondly named as Polly, took 421 Test wickets and hit 3781 runs for the Proteas.