Jasprit Bumrah vs Mohammed Siraj Stats: Test, ODI, T20I & IPL

On every rate measure that exists, in every format, Jasprit Bumrah is ahead. His Test wickets cost 19.79 apiece against Siraj's 29.74; his ODI wickets 23.74 against 25.32; his T20I wickets 18.08 against 28.29. Bumrah is the only bowler in the history of Test cricket to have reached 200 wickets at an average below 20, and he got there in his forty-fourth Test, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in December 2024. No bowler with 200 or more Test wickets has a better career average. That is the comparison in one paragraph, and nothing below overturns it.

The reason the comparison is still worth making is that the two men have almost never been asked to do the same job. Bumrah has bowled in short, protected bursts since a back stress fracture cost him most of 2023, and India has rationed him — rested from series, held back for the second new ball, withdrawn from dead rubbers. Mohammed Siraj has been the bowler who fills the gap. He played all five Tests of the 2025 series in England, took 23 wickets to finish as its leading wicket-taker, and won the fifth Test at The Oval with nine wickets in the match, three of them among the last four England wickets on the final morning with 35 runs still needed.

So the sensible question is not which of them is better. It is what each one costs and what each one delivers per over bowled, and those two things pull in opposite directions. What follows sets the records out format by format, then looks at the workload facts that explain most of the difference in average.

The two careers in one table

Format	Bumrah	Siraj
Tests	52 matches, 234 wickets at 19.79, best 6/27, 16 five-fors	46 matches, 140 wickets at 29.74, best 6/15, 5 five-fors
ODIs	91 matches, 151 wickets at 23.74, best 6/19, 2 five-fors	50 matches, 76 wickets at 25.32, best 6/21, 1 five-for
T20Is	95 matches, 121 wickets at 18.08, best 4/15	17 matches, 17 wickets at 28.29, best 4/17
First-class	80 matches, 326 wickets at 21.45	91 matches, 316 wickets at 26.69
IPL	158 matches, 187 wickets, economy 7.34, best 5/10	125 matches, 128 wickets, economy 8.78, best 4/17
Franchises	Mumbai Indians only	Royal Challengers, Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers

Bumrah's international figures follow his career record to 4 August 2026 and Siraj's to 8 June 2026. The two IPL rows are counted from ball-by-ball data through the 2026 final and use the standard bowler-credited definition of a wicket, so run-outs are not included.

Tests: the ten-run gap and where it comes from

A ten-run difference in bowling average is enormous. Over a 140-wicket career it is roughly 1,400 extra runs conceded, which is four or five Test matches' worth of runs. But the two records are not built out of the same raw material.

Bumrah's 234 wickets have come in 52 Tests, which is 4.5 per match — a strike bowler's return, achieved in bursts of eight to fourteen overs a day with the field up and one of the two new balls in his hand. Sixteen five-wicket hauls from 52 matches is close to one every three games. His best figures, 6 for 27 against West Indies at Kingston in 2019, included a hat-trick.

Siraj's 140 wickets in 46 Tests is 3.0 per match, and the shape of the workload is different. He has bowled the long spells into the wind, the holding overs before lunch, the third and fourth spells on flat fourth-day pitches. His best figures, 6 for 15 at Newlands in January 2024, came in an innings in which South Africa were dismissed for 55, their lowest total in any Test against India.

Both records are close to what you would predict from the roles. A bowler who bowls fewer, better-timed overs at higher intensity will have the better average. A bowler who bowls more overs in worse conditions will have the worse one. That does not make the gap an illusion, because Bumrah is genuinely a harder bowler to face, but it does mean the two numbers are not measuring quite the same thing.

Availability, the variable nobody puts in the table

The single most important fact about this comparison is not a bowling figure. It is that Siraj has been available and Bumrah frequently has not.

Bumrah has missed most of a year of international cricket to a back injury, been rested from white-ball tours, and been managed through series in which he played three Tests of five. Siraj has played through, and India has built its planning around the certainty that he will.

That has a consequence for how the two records should be read. A bowler who plays three Tests of five and bowls twelve overs a day is being used in the way that produces the best possible average. A bowler who plays five of five and bowls twenty overs a day on the fourth afternoon is being used in the way that produces the worst possible average and wins the most matches. India's 2025 series in England was settled by the second kind of bowling.

White ball: different ends of the innings

In ODIs the difference narrows sharply. A gap of 23.74 against 25.32 is a run and a half, not ten. The fifty-over game gives Siraj the new ball and the powerplay, the phase in which he is at his most dangerous, and gives Bumrah the harder assignment of the middle and death overs where the field is spread and every ball is being attacked.

Siraj's best one-day performance is the outlier in his whole record: 6 for 21 in the 2023 Asia Cup final at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, including four wickets in a single over, in an innings where Sri Lanka were bowled out for 50. He was the first India bowler to take four wickets in an over in a One-Day International.

Bumrah's ODI best of 6 for 19 and his two five-wicket returns are the more conventional record for a strike bowler, and his one-day economy rather than his average is where the real separation sits. The T20I comparison barely exists: Bumrah has 121 wickets at 18.08 across 95 matches and is among the two or three most economical death bowlers the format has produced, while Siraj has played 17 T20Is spread thinly over nine years and has never held the shirt.

The IPL records are the clearest split

Franchise cricket separates them more cleanly than international cricket does, because in the IPL both men bowl four overs and the comparison is like for like.

Measure	Bumrah	Siraj
Matches bowled in	158	125
Wickets	187	128
Economy rate	7.34	8.78
Runs per wicket	23.75	30.55
Balls per wicket	19.4	20.9
Best in an innings	5/10	4/17

An economy of 7.34 across thirteen seasons of Twenty20 cricket, in a competition whose scoring rate has climbed steeply since 2022, is the outstanding number in either career. Bumrah has spent all of it at Mumbai Indians, which makes his the longest single-franchise bowling career the club has had. Siraj has moved between three teams and has generally been asked to take the new ball and attack, which is the role that produces wickets and concedes runs; the balls-per-wicket column shows the two men much closer than the economy column does.

For the wider franchise context, the IPL most wickets leaderboard puts both careers against the competition's all-time bowlers, and the IPL best economy rate list is where Bumrah's four-over discipline is easiest to see.

What the rankings recorded

Both men have been formally rated the best in the world in a format, which is a useful check on any argument that one of them is merely a good supporting bowler.

Bumrah became the first India fast bowler to reach No. 1 in the ICC Test bowling rankings, a position no Indian seamer had held in the history of the list, and he held it during the period in which his average dropped below twenty.

Siraj reached No. 1 in the ICC men's ODI bowling rankings twice in 2023 — first in January, after India beat New Zealand 3-0 at home, and again in September on the back of the Asia Cup final. He was the first India bowler to top that particular table.

Those two facts sit awkwardly with the flat reading of the averages, and they should. The Test list rewards exactly what Bumrah does and the ODI list, weighted towards recent wickets in bunches, rewards exactly what Siraj does at his best. Neither ranking settles the argument; both confirm that the argument is real.

Where the comparison is genuinely close

Three areas do not favour Bumrah.

Volume of first-class wickets is one. Siraj has 316 first-class wickets from 91 matches against Bumrah's 326 from 80 — very similar totals, because Siraj bowled a great deal of Ranji Trophy cricket for Hyderabad before and during his India career while Bumrah's domestic appearances have been squeezed out by international scheduling. Anyone tracing how both were produced should read the Ranji Trophy guide and the account of India's fast bowling evolution.

Matches won from behind is another, and it is not measurable in a career column. Siraj's fifth-Test spell at The Oval, and his 23-wicket series, were the difference between a series lost and a series drawn.

The third is durability, which is really the same point from the other direction. Bumrah has been the better bowler in every match he has played. Siraj has played more of them.

The verdict, stated plainly

• Test average, strike rate and five-wicket hauls: Bumrah, by a distance.
• T20I record: Bumrah, and Siraj has no comparable body of work.
• ODI wickets per match and economy: Bumrah, though the gap is small.
• Best single one-day performance: Siraj, for the Asia Cup final.
• First-class volume and overs bowled per series: Siraj.
• IPL economy and career wickets: Bumrah.
• Availability across a five-Test series: Siraj.

The two are complements rather than rivals, which is why India has picked them together whenever both were fit. Bumrah takes the wickets that end innings; Siraj bowls the overs that make those wickets possible. The individual careers are set out on the Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj pages, other India bowlers are indexed in the player directory, and the cricket in India hub carries the surrounding history. All-time context for both sits on the most Test wickets for India list.

Sources and method

International figures on this page are taken from each player's published career record and cross-checked against contemporaneous match reports: Bumrah's to 4 August 2026, Siraj's to 8 June 2026. The two dates differ because the two records were last revised on different days, and both men were still active when this page was written, so the Test and ODI rows will move.

The claim that Bumrah has the best career average of any bowler with 200 or more Test wickets, and that he is the first to reach 200 at an average below 20, follows ESPNcricinfo's reporting of the milestone when he passed it at Melbourne in December 2024. It is a statement about a qualified list rather than an absolute one; several bowlers with fewer than 200 wickets have better averages.

The IPL rows are computed rather than quoted. They come from the ball-by-ball archive of all 1,243 Indian Premier League matches played between April 2008 and the 2026 final, and a wicket is credited to the bowler only where the mode of dismissal credits him — bowled, caught, caught and bowled, lbw, stumped, hit wicket. Run-outs and dismissals in super overs are excluded, which is why these totals can sit a wicket or two below counts that treat every fall of a wicket as the bowler's.

Nothing here adjusts either bowler's average for the conditions he bowled in or the overs he was asked to bowl. The argument that role explains most of the Test gap is an interpretation of the workload facts described above rather than a calculation, and it is offered as such.