Ben Stokes vs Ravindra Jadeja

[Majestic]

Jadeja is two levels better bowler and one level inferior batter.

If we balance all the factors,

Jadeja - Bowling Avg 27, Bat Avg 33
Stokes - Bowling Avg 33, Bat Avg 36

 

[Majestic]

As batters,

Jadeja - 5/10
Stokes - 5.5/10( used to be 6)

As bowlers,

Jadeja - 7/10
Stokes - 5/10

As fielders, both are like 9.5 and 9.

 

[subshakerz]

Is Stokes even an allrounder anymore?

 

[_00_deathscar]

Is Stokes even a better bat than Jadeja anymore? He’s more likely to come up with a match winning hundred I guess but he’s somewhat inconsistent (Jadeja definitely much less likely to get you that, but he’ll get you a match saving 30-80 or whatever more frequently. And then if it’s at home go and win it with the ball).
Maybe the stats don’t bear that out.

 

[sayon basak]

How is this close?

 

[PlayerComparisons]

How is this close?

This is a more recent poll

Ben Stokes vs Ravindra Jadeja

Two ATG allrounders

www.cricketweb.net

 

[Prince EWS]

Is Stokes even a better bat than Jadeja anymore? He’s more likely to come up with a match winning hundred I guess but he’s somewhat inconsistent (Jadeja definitely much less likely to get you that, but he’ll get you a match saving 30-80 or whatever more frequently. And then if it’s at home go and win it with the ball).
Maybe the stats don’t bear that out.

He'd definitely still be a better specialist bat than Jadeja, but as someone to bat 6 or 7 and work with the tail then yeah it's closer now for the reasons you said.

Obviously if you were almost totally ****ed you'd prefer Stokes, but Jadeja does the lower middle batting version of "turn ones into twos" by turning 270s into 350s all the time.

 

[sayon basak]

This is a more recent poll

Ben Stokes vs Ravindra Jadeja

Two ATG allrounders

www.cricketweb.net

I'm still not convinced. There were less voters in that poll.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

@Prince EWS You can lock this thread if you want to since there’s another one comparing the two

 

[sayon basak]

@Prince EWS You can lock this thread if you want to since there’s another one comparing the two

I think the other one should be locked as there were fewer voters.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Yea you can lock either one

 

[sayon basak]

Yea you can lock either one

Or maybe both

 

[sayon basak]

Looks like Jadeja the bowler is a bit underrated.
Isn't a 24 averaging bowlers automatically better than a 35.5 averaging batter?

 

[Prince EWS]

I think the other one should be locked as there were fewer voters.

This one is older so I've locked this one to record the views at the time and let newbies vote on the other one.