Ravindra Jadeja vs Yuvraj Singh Stats: Test, ODI, T20I & IPL

Yuvraj Singh scored 8,701 one-day international runs at 36.55 with fourteen hundreds. Ravindra Jadeja scored 2,905 at 32.27 with none. Jadeja took 348 Test wickets at 25.11; Yuvraj took ten, at 60.77, in a Test career of 40 matches.

Two left-handers, both listed as all-rounders, both batting somewhere between five and seven for India, and their records have almost nothing in common. Yuvraj was a top-order batsman in one-day cricket who bowled part-time left-arm spin usefully enough to be worth an over spell. Jadeja is a front-line spinner who bats well enough to be picked as a batter in a side with two other spinners.

The comparison is worth making anyway, because both spent their careers occupying the same selection slot — the left-handed all-rounder who lets India play an extra specialist — and because the two answers to that problem produced very different teams.

The records, format by format

Format	Ravindra Jadeja	Yuvraj Singh
Tests	89 matches, 4,095 runs at 38.27, HS 175*, 6 hundreds, 27 fifties	40 matches, 1,900 runs at 33.92, HS 169, 3 hundreds, 11 fifties
Test bowling	348 wickets at 25.11, best 7/42, 15 five-fors	10 wickets at 60.77, best 2/9
ODIs	210 matches, 2,905 runs at 32.27, HS 87, 13 fifties	304 matches, 8,701 runs at 36.55, HS 150, 14 hundreds, 52 fifties
ODI bowling	232 wickets at 36.54, best 5/33, 2 five-fors	111 wickets at 38.68, best 5/31
T20Is	74 matches, 515 runs, 54 wickets at 29.85	58 matches, 1,177 runs at 28.02, HS 77*, 29 wickets at 17.82
First-class	147 matches, 8,284 runs at 45.02, HS 331, 579 wickets at 24.29	139 matches, 8,965 runs at 44.16, HS 260, 41 wickets at 48.24
Fielding	49 Test catches, 79 in ODIs	31 Test catches, 94 in ODIs
International span	2009 to 2026	2000 to 2017

Yuvraj's record is closed. Jadeja's Test career ended in November 2025 and his ODI career in January 2026, so his international figures are effectively final; franchise cricket continues.

The 2011 World Cup, which is Yuvraj's whole case in one tournament

Yuvraj was Player of the Tournament at the 2011 World Cup, which India won. He scored 362 runs with a hundred and four fifties, took 15 wickets and won four man-of-the-match awards — the first all-rounder to combine 300-plus runs with 15 wickets in a single World Cup. He was also the first player to take a five-wicket haul and score a fifty in the same World Cup match.

He was ill throughout. The cancer diagnosis came after the tournament; the symptoms were present during it. Whatever one thinks of the sentimental framing that has attached to this, the performance itself does not need it: on the numbers alone it is the best all-round World Cup any Indian has had.

Four years earlier he had produced the other innings he is remembered for, six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad at the 2007 World Twenty20, reaching fifty from twelve balls in the process — the fastest half-century in T20 international cricket. India won that tournament too.

Jadeja has three global titles — the 2013 Champions Trophy, where he was the leading wicket-taker with twelve, the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 Champions Trophy, in whose final he hit the winning runs. That is one more than Yuvraj. What he does not have is a tournament that belongs to him the way 2011 belongs to Yuvraj. The 2011 World Cup and 2007 World T20 pages carry both of Yuvraj's.

One-day batting: 8,701 against 2,905

The ODI batting comparison is not close, and the reason is positional as much as it is a matter of quality.

Yuvraj batted at four for most of his career, in the phase of a fifty-over innings where a batter has fifteen or twenty overs to build and then accelerate. He faced enough deliveries to make hundreds — fourteen of them, with a highest of 150 — and his average of 36.55 across 304 matches is a proper top-order record.

Jadeja has batted at six, seven and lower, arriving with between five and fifteen overs remaining and a mandate to hit from the first ball. In that role a hundred is close to unreachable, thirteen fifties from 210 matches is a substantial return, and a strike rate matters more than an average. His 32.27 is very good for the position; comparing it directly with Yuvraj's 36.55 is comparing two different jobs.

The honest version is that Yuvraj was the better one-day batsman and Jadeja was never asked to be one. Most ODI runs for India places Yuvraj's aggregate, and the ODI cricket history guide covers both eras.

Test cricket, where the reverse applies

In Tests the imbalance runs entirely the other way.

Jadeja played 89 Tests to Yuvraj's 40, took 348 wickets to ten, and averaged 38.27 with the bat to Yuvraj's 33.92. He has six Test hundreds, 27 fifties and a highest of 175 not out, and has been ranked the world's number one Test all-rounder. He is one half of the most successful bowling partnership India has fielded, alongside Ravichandran Ashwin.

Yuvraj's Test career is the unresolved part of his record. Three hundreds in 40 matches at 33.92 is not a failure, and his 169 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 2007 was a substantial innings, but he never held a place. The reasons offered at the time were technique against the moving ball and a method built for a format where the field is up and the ball is white. He was picked, dropped, recalled and dropped again across a decade.

Whether the Test career was mishandled or correctly judged is a genuine disagreement among people who watched it, and this page does not settle it. What is certain is that Jadeja's Test record is one of the best any Indian all-rounder has produced and Yuvraj's is a footnote to his one-day career. Great allrounders covers the wider Indian field.

Bowling, and the difference between a spinner and an option

Jadeja bowls left-arm orthodox at a quick pace with a flat trajectory and relentless accuracy, which is a front-line Test discipline — 348 wickets at 25.11 with fifteen five-wicket hauls, plus 579 first-class wickets at 24.29.

Yuvraj bowled left-arm spin too, but as a fifth or sixth option. His 111 ODI wickets at 38.68 are a useful return for a part-timer, and his 29 T20 international wickets at 17.82 are better than useful — that average is lower than Jadeja's 29.85 in the same format, in a comparable number of matches. His 5 for 31, taken against Ireland during the 2011 World Cup, is the outlier performance in a career of tidy spells.

The practical difference is what each allowed a captain to do. Yuvraj's overs let India play an extra batter or an extra seamer; Jadeja's overs are a bowler's overs, and a side with him in it has a full attack plus a batter at seven. That is the more valuable arrangement, and it is why Jadeja played more than twice as many Tests.

Fielding, where both were exceptional

This is the one axis on which the two are genuinely comparable, and both were among the best of their generations.

Yuvraj was an outstanding cover fielder in an Indian side that, for much of his early career, did not have many — quick to the ball, a fast release, and a reputation that meant batters did not take the second run to him. He took 94 ODI catches.

Jadeja is the same kind of fielder a generation later, usually stationed at point or on the boundary, with an arm that is among the best in the game. He has 79 ODI catches and 49 in Tests.

Neither man's fielding shows up in the tables above in any way that reflects its value, and in a comparison this lopsided in each direction, the fact that they are level here is worth stating.

The IPL

Both have long franchise careers. Yuvraj played across Punjab Kings, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Delhi, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians, and was twice the competition's most expensive auction purchase without ever matching that price in output. Jadeja has been a Chennai Super Kings fixture across multiple title-winning sides after early seasons elsewhere.

Jadeja's league record is the more consistent and the more decorated. Yuvraj's contains a small number of very large innings and a great deal of frustration. The IPL most runs list carries the competition context for both.

The verdict

• ODI runs, average, hundreds: Yuvraj, decisively.
• Test matches, runs, average, hundreds: Jadeja.
• Test wickets: Jadeja, 348 to 10 — not a comparison.
• ODI wickets: Jadeja. ODI bowling average: Jadeja, narrowly.
• T20 international runs and bowling average: Yuvraj, on both.
• First-class runs: Yuvraj, by 681. First-class wickets: Jadeja, by 538.
• Fielding: level, and both exceptional.
• World titles: Jadeja, three to two. Best individual tournament: Yuvraj, 2011.
• Player you pick to bat at four in a World Cup: Yuvraj.
• Player you pick as the seventh batter and second spinner in a Test: Jadeja.

The summary is that Jadeja has the better career and Yuvraj the better peak, that the two records answer different questions, and that anyone forced to choose should be asking which format they are picking for. Full records are on the Ravindra Jadeja and Yuvraj Singh pages, the player directory covers their contemporaries, and the cricket in India hub places both.

Sources and method

Yuvraj's record is closed. Jadeja's Test career ended in November 2025 and his ODI career in January 2026; his international rows are treated as final and his franchise figures are not quoted as fixed totals.

Match totals, run aggregates, averages, wickets and fielding counts are drawn from the standard career summaries for both men.

The 2011 World Cup claims are attributed: 362 runs with a hundred and four fifties, 15 wickets, four man-of-the-match awards and the Player of the Tournament award are tournament records, as is the statement that he was the first all-rounder to pass 300 runs and 15 wickets in a single World Cup and the first to take a five-wicket haul and score a fifty in the same World Cup match. The six sixes off Stuart Broad and the twelve-ball fifty at the 2007 World Twenty20 come from that match record.

Jadeja's twelve wickets as leading wicket-taker at the 2013 Champions Trophy, and his number one Test all-rounder ranking, are published records rather than calculations made here.

The account of batting position in the section on one-day batting — that Yuvraj batted at four and Jadeja at six or lower — is a general description of how each was used and admits exceptions in individual matches. No strike rates have been quoted from a per-position split, because reliable published splits for the whole of both careers were not available, and the argument that a lower-order average is not comparable with a top-order one is offered as reasoning rather than as a calculation.

The assessment of both men's fielding is descriptive. No averages have been adjusted for era, opposition or conditions.