Shubman Gill vs Yashasvi Jaiswal Stats: Test, ODI, T20I & IPL
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in India8 min read
Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal have opened for India in the same period and their records answer different questions. In Test cricket Jaiswal averages a shade under 49 with seven hundreds from 28 matches; Gill averages 42.43 from 40. In one-day cricket the ranking inverts completely — Gill has 3,141 runs at 56.09 with eight hundreds from 64 matches, and Jaiswal has played six.
The split is not a judgement on either. It reflects where India has used them. Gill was made a fifty-over opener early and given a long run at it; Jaiswal was picked as a Test opener on the strength of first-class weight of runs and has had only a handful of one-day caps.
Their Indian Premier League careers offer the fairest like-for-like comparison, because both have played every season since their debut and in the same competition. There Gill has 4,598 runs at 40.33 from 130 innings and Jaiswal 2,593 at 33.68 from 82, with Jaiswal striking ten runs per hundred balls faster.
The four formats
| Format | Shubman Gill | Yashasvi Jaiswal |
|---|---|---|
| Tests | 40 matches, 2,843 runs at 42.43, 10 hundreds, HS 269 | 28 matches, 2,511 runs at 49.23, 7 hundreds, HS 214* |
| ODIs | 64 matches, 3,141 runs at 56.09, 8 hundreds, HS 208 | 6 matches, 285 runs at 71.25, 2 hundreds, HS 116* |
| T20Is | 35 matches, 846 runs at 28.20, 1 hundred, HS 126* | 23 matches, 723 runs at 36.15, 1 hundred, HS 100 |
| IPL | 134 matches, 4,598 runs at 40.33, 5 hundreds, HS 129 | 82 innings, 2,593 runs at 33.68, 2 hundreds, HS 124 |
Gill's ODI average of 56.09 across 64 matches is the standout figure in the table, and his 208 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 2023 is the highest score either has made in any format. Jaiswal's 214 not out against England is the highest of his, and his Test average is the higher of the two by nearly seven runs.
Jaiswal's ODI numbers sit on six matches. An average of 71.25 from six is a fact, not a rate, and no weight should be put on it.
Test cricket, which is where they overlap most
| Measure | Shubman Gill | Yashasvi Jaiswal |
|---|---|---|
| Matches | 40 | 28 |
| Innings | 73 | not directly comparable |
| Runs | 2,843 | 2,511 |
| Average | 42.43 | 49.23 |
| Strike rate | 61.50 | higher, in a more aggressive role |
| Hundreds | 10 | 7 |
| Fifties | 8 | 13 |
| Highest score | 269 | 214* |
Jaiswal has the better average and Gill has more hundreds from more matches. The conversion pattern differs: Gill has ten hundreds to eight fifties, which is an unusually high ratio and means he has more often gone from a start to a large score. Jaiswal has seven hundreds to thirteen fifties, the more conventional shape.
Gill's 269 is the larger innings, and both men have made a double hundred, which two India openers of the same generation doing so is not a common thing.
The context that matters most is where they have batted. Jaiswal has opened in almost every Test innings of his career. Gill opened early on, was moved to the middle order and then to No. 4, and his average across those positions is not the average of an opener. Comparing the two columns as though both describe the same job overstates the gap in Jaiswal's favour.
The one-day records
| Measure | Shubman Gill | Yashasvi Jaiswal |
|---|---|---|
| Matches | 64 | 6 |
| Runs | 3,141 | 285 |
| Average | 56.09 | 71.25 |
| Strike rate | 99.05 | not established |
| Hundreds | 8 | 2 |
| Fifties | 19 | 0 |
This is not a comparison and should not be read as one. Gill has 3,141 one-day runs at 56.09 with eight hundreds and nineteen fifties, a record that puts him among the strongest openers India has had in the format at the same stage. Jaiswal has six caps.
What is worth noting on Jaiswal's side is that both of his ODI scores past fifty were hundreds — he has no ODI fifty at all — which on six matches is more curiosity than pattern.
Indian Premier League, season by season
| Season | Gill (team) | Runs | SR | Jaiswal (team) | Runs | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 203 | 146.0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 296 | 124.4 | — | — | — |
| 2020 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 440 | 118.0 | Rajasthan Royals | 40 | 90.9 |
| 2021 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 478 | 118.9 | Rajasthan Royals | 249 | 148.2 |
| 2022 | Gujarat Titans | 483 | 132.3 | Rajasthan Royals | 258 | 133.0 |
| 2023 | Gujarat Titans | 890 | 157.8 | Rajasthan Royals | 625 | 163.6 |
| 2024 | Gujarat Titans | 426 | 147.4 | Rajasthan Royals | 435 | 155.9 |
| 2025 | Gujarat Titans | 650 | 155.9 | Rajasthan Royals | 559 | 159.7 |
| 2026 | Gujarat Titans | 732 | 163.0 | Rajasthan Royals | 427 | 152.5 |
The 2023 season is the peak for both — Gill's 890 and Jaiswal's 625 are each the highest of their careers, and both did it at a strike rate above 157.
The more interesting line is what happened to Gill's strike rate. His first four seasons at Kolkata ran between 118 and 146 and his five at Gujarat between 132 and 163. That is not a player getting better so much as a player being asked to bat differently: at Kolkata he was often the anchor, and at Gujarat he has opened with licence.
Jaiswal's rate has been high from his second season onwards and has stayed between 133 and 164 throughout. He has never had a season below 133 after 2020, and the two of his seven seasons in which he passed 550 both came at above 159.
| Career IPL | Gill | Jaiswal |
|---|---|---|
| Innings | 130 | 82 |
| Runs | 4,598 | 2,593 |
| Average | 40.33 | 33.68 |
| Strike rate | 142.09 | 152.80 |
| Hundreds | 5 | 2 |
| Fifties | 32 | 18 |
| Sixes | 152 | 110 |
| Fours | 446 | 310 |
Gill's average is seven higher and Jaiswal's strike rate eleven higher, which is the trade a reader should expect between an opener who builds and one who attacks from the first over. Jaiswal has hit 110 sixes in 82 innings and Gill 152 in 130, so per innings the two are close on that measure and further apart on fours, where Gill's 446 to 310 reflects more balls faced.
Where each is genuinely better
Six observations the tables do not spell out:
- Jaiswal's Test average is 6.8 higher than Gill's, and he has reached it while opening in almost every innings. Gill's has been accumulated across three different batting positions.
- Gill has scored 3,141 one-day runs to Jaiswal's 285. Nothing in either career is as lopsided as this, and it is entirely a selection difference.
- Both have made a Twenty20 international hundred. Gill's 126 not out is the larger and Jaiswal's average of 36.15 in the format the better.
- Gill has played for two IPL franchises and captained Gujarat Titans to the 2026 final, which they lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Jaiswal has played his whole IPL career at Rajasthan Royals.
- Neither has a career strike rate below 140 in the IPL since 2022, which is what marks both out from the generation of India openers before them.
- Gill's ten Test hundreds from 40 matches is the higher rate of century-making; Jaiswal's thirteen fifties from 28 the higher rate of getting past fifty at all.
What the comparison cannot settle
The two are three years apart in international experience and have been used differently in every format bar Twenty20. On the evidence available, Jaiswal is the better red-ball record so far and Gill the better white-ball one, and both statements come with the caveat that each man's weaker column is thin because of selection rather than failure.
The IPL section is the only part of this page where the two have faced comparable conditions over comparable time, and there Gill has scored more runs at a higher average and Jaiswal has scored his faster.
Related comparisons follow the same method. Shubman Gill against KL Rahul sets him against the incumbent he displaced in several sides, and Ruturaj Gaikwad against Shubman Gill covers the other opener of the same generation. The players index lists them all, Shubman Gill's profile carries his biography and franchise record, and the cricket in India hub places both careers in the national picture.
Sources and method
Shubman Gill's figures across all four formats come from his career record on this site as last revised, with the IPL rows counted from the ball-by-ball archive of the competition through the 2026 final. His season-by-season IPL splits are drawn from the same archive.
Yashasvi Jaiswal's IPL record, including every season split, comes from that archive. His international figures for Tests, ODIs and T20Is are taken from ESPNcricinfo's career record for him as it stood on 30 March 2026, since this site's own dataset does not yet carry his international career. Sources published later in 2026 give slightly higher Test totals as he continued to play, so the Test row here should be read as a point-in-time figure rather than a current one.
Two figures are left out deliberately. Jaiswal's Test strike rate is not given as a number because the two sources consulted differ on it; the page says only that it is the higher of the two, which both agree on. His ODI strike rate is omitted for the same reason and because six matches would not establish one in any case.
Comparisons of role — batting position, the licence each has been given, why one has 64 one-day caps and the other six — are descriptive and rest on the pattern of selection rather than any computed measure. No adjustment has been made for opposition or venue. Both players were active when this page was written, so every column is a snapshot. All figures current as of 28 August 2026.