RA Jadeja’s unique feat – becomes the first cricketer in the annals of test cricket to score a fifty in an innings of a test, capture ten wickets and pouch four catches in the same test

RA Jadeja’s unique feat – becomes the first cricketer in the annals of test cricket to score a fifty in an innings of a test, capture ten wickets and pouch four catches in the same test

RA Jadeja’s all round performance of scoring 51 runs, capturing ten for 154 and pouching four catches in a match at Chennai in the recently concluded test against England makes him the only cricketer in the annals of test cricket to eke an all round performance of a fifty coupled with ten wickets in a test and taking four catches in a test.

The following table lists the 25 such occasions of all round performance by a cricketer in a test match of scoring a fifty coupled with ten or more wickets in a test – RA Jadeja’s feat providing the 25th such occasions

No Player FI SI W Conc Ct Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 W Bates 55 14 102 1 Eng Aus Melbourne 19 Jan 1883
2 H Trumble 64* 12 173 2 Aus Eng The Oval 11 Aug 1902
3 FE Woolley 62 10 049 2 Eng Aus The Oval 19 Aug 1912
4 AK Davidson 80 11 222 1 Aus Win Brisbane 09 Dec 1960
5 KD Boyce 72 11 147 0 Win Eng The Oval 26 Jul 1973
6 AW Greig 51 10 149 0 Eng NZl Auckland 20 Feb 1975
7 JK Lever 53 10 070 1 Eng Ind Delhi 17 Dec 1976
8 N Kapil Dev 84 11 146 1 Ind Pak Chennai 15 Jan 1980
9 RJ Hadlee 51 11 102 1 NZl Win Dunedin 08 Feb 1980
10 IT Botham 114 13 106 0 Eng Ind Mumbai 15 Feb 1980
11 Imran Khan 117 11 180 0 Pak Ind Faisalabad 03 Jan 1983
12 MD Marshall 63 11 120 1 Win NZl Bridgetown 26 Apr 1985
13 RJ Hadlee 54 15 123 2 NZl Aus Brisbane 08 Nov 1985
14 RJ Hadlee 68 10 140 0 NZl Eng Nottingham 07 Aug 1986
15 AR Border 75 11 096 0 Aus Win Sydney 26 Jan 1989
16 DJ Nash 56 11 169 2 NZl Eng Lord’s 16 Jun 1994
17 PS de Villiers 66* 10 108 2 SAF Pak Johannesburg 19 Jan 1995
18 MG Bevan 85* 10 113 1 Aus Win Adelaide 25 Jan 1997
19 CL Cairns 72 10 100 1 NZl Win Hamilton 16 Dec 1999
20 DL Vettori 51 10 183 0 NZl Srl Wellington 15 Dec 2006
21 DW Steyn 76 10 154 0 SAF Aus Melbourne 26 Dec 2008
22 Shakib Al Hasan 137 10 124 0 Ban Zim Khulna 03 Nov 2014
23 MD Craig 65 10 203 2 NZl Pak Sharjah 26 Nov 2014
24 MDK Perera 64 10 099 1 Srl Aus Galle 04 Aug 2016
25 RA Jadeja 51 10 154 4 Ind Eng Chennai 16 Dec 2016

RA Jadeja became the second cricketer to perform  the feat of scoring a fifty coupled with ten plus wickets in a test after Kapil Dev. Both the performance is listed below. Interestingly enough both the cricketers chose Chennai as venue

No Player FI SI W Conc Ct Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 N Kapil Dev 84 11 146 1 Ind Pak Chennai 15 Jan 1980
2 RA Jadeja 51 10 154 4 Ind Eng Chennai 16 Dec 2016

RA Jadeja became the fifth cricketer to accomplish such a feat against England. All such occasions are listed below. RA Jadeja earns the distinction of performing the feat on home soil, while all the other occasions have come in English soil – that is the away soil for the bowler

No Player FI SI W Conc Ct Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 H Trumble 64* 12 173 2 Aus Eng The Oval 11 Aug 1902
2 KD Boyce 72 11 147 0 Win Eng The Oval 26 Jul 1973
3 RJ Hadlee 68 10 140 0 NZl Eng Nottingham 07 Aug 1986
4 DJ Nash 56 11 169 2 NZl Eng Lord’s 16 Jun 1994
5 RA Jadeja 51 10 154 4 Ind Eng Chennai 16 Dec 2016
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