Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja’s Player of the Series performance in the recently concluded two-Test series against the West Indies helped him overtake Harbhajan Singh in an elite record list. He’s
now the 11th-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket for home matches, with 377 scalps, one more than Harbhajan.
For Indians, he’s now only behind Anil Kumble (476) and his long-time bowling partner Ravinchandran Ashwin (475). Jadeja took the same number of matches as Harbhajan, 152, to beat his tally. Ashwin remarkably took only 131 matches for his tally and could’ve beaten Kumble and perhaps even Stuart Broad’s 509, had he not taken early retirement during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy in December last year.
Most Test wickets at home
| Player | Mat | Inns | Wickets | Best Bowling Figures — Innings | Best Bowling Figures — Match | Average | Fifers | 10-fers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muttiah Muralidaran (Sri Lanka) | 183 | 240 | 647 | 9/51 | 13/115 | 20.81 | 47 | 15 |
| James Anderson (England) | 203 | 297 | 579 | 7/42 | 11/71 | 24.88 | 24 | 3 |
| Stuard Broad (England) | 181 | 271 | 509 | 8/15 | 11/121 | 26.66 | 15 | 3 |
| Anil Kumble (India) | 153 | 204 | 476 | 10/74 | 14/149 | 25.95 | 26 | 7 |
| Ravichadran Ashwin (India) | 131 | 193 | 475 | 7/59 | 13/140 | 22.96 | 29 | 6 |
| Shane Warne (Australia) | 153 | 212 | 453 | 8/71 | 12/128 | 25.80 | 16 | 4 |
| Glenn McGrath (Australia) | 161 | 226 | 449 | 8/24 | 10/27 | 21.61 | 14 | 2 |
| Shane Pollock (South Africa) | 197 | 244 | 442 | 6/30 | 10/147 | 20.66 | 13 | 1 |
| Tim Southee (New Zealand) | 204 | 256 | 424 | 7/33 | 9/110 | 29.55 | 13 | 0 |
| Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) | 217 | 246 | 415 | 7/36 | 10/124 | 25.17 | 18 | 2 |
| Ravindra Jadeja (India) | 152 | 199 | 377 | 7/42 | 10/110 | 24.02 | 14 | 3 |
| Harbhajan Singh (India) | 152 | 199 | 376 | 8/84 | 15/217 | 30.75 | 20 | 4 |
Jadeja picked up eight wickets in two Tests against the Windies, at an average of 27.13, while also scoring a century in the only batting opportunity he got.
“As Gauti bhai (head coach Gautam Gambhir) said, I’m at number six now. So I’m thinking more as a proper batsman, and that works for me. In the past, for many years, I’ve been batting at number eight, number nine, so my mindset was a little different from what I have now. I’m just trying to spend more time in the middle whenever I get a chance to bat. To be honest, I don’t think too much about records. I just focus on contributing with both bat and ball to help my team win. I always look forward to do that. I feel if I don’t perform with bat and ball, then it doesn’t reflect my value as a player,” Jadeja told the broadcasters after India’s win.
“I could get a chance to bowl more overs (after Ashwin’s retirement). But yeah, all in all, we’ve been doing wonderful work as a team, in terms of batting and bowling. I think we know what brand of cricket we’ve been playing over the last five, six months. So that’s a good sign as a team, that we continue to do it over a long period of time,” Jadeja said.
