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List: Players with 3000 Runs and 200 Wickets in Test Cricket

A complete cricketer is one who can chip in with wickets at regular intervals while at the same time scoring important runs for their team. In Test cricket, it will be a captain’s dream to have players who can bat at the top of the order while giving him/her cushion as a dependable bowler as well the other way around.

These players can be coined as all-rounders, and they are often the most valuable assets for their respective sides. They give a sense of relief to their skipper because of the things they can do in both departments of the game.

In this article, we will celebrate the players with 3000 runs and 200 wickets in Test cricket.

Players with 3000 Runs & 200 Wickets in Test

Player	Matches	Runs	Batting Avg	Wickets	Bowling Avg
Jacques Kallis (SA)	166	13289	55.37	292	32.65
Garry Sobers (WI)	93	8032	57.78	235	34.03
Ben Stokes (ENG)	120	7216	34.85	245	31.24
Kapil Dev (IND)	131	5248	31.05	434	29.64
Ian Botham (ENG)	102	5200	33.54	383	28.40
Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)	71	4609	37.77	246	31.72
Daniel Vettori (NZ)	113	4531	30.00	362	34.36
Ravindra Jadeja (IND)	89	4095	38.27	348	25.11
Andrew Flintoff (ENG)	79	3845	31.77	226	32.78
Imran Khan (PAK)	88	3807	37.69	362	22.81
Shaun Pollock (SA)	108	3781	32.31	421	23.11
Stuart Broad (ENG)	167	3662	18.04	604	27.68
Ravichandran Ashwin (IND)	106	3503	25.75	537	24.00
Chris Cairns (NZ)	62	3320	33.53	218	29.40
Shane Warne (AUS)	145	3154	17.32	708	25.41
Richard Hadlee (NZ)	86	3124	27.16	431	22.29
Moeen Ali (ENG)	68	3094	28.12	204	37.31
Chaminda Vaas (SL)	111	3089	24.32	355	29.58

Key Insights

17 players have surpassed this incredible feat of taking 200+ wickets and scoring 3000+ runs in Test cricket. Ben Stokes of England can become the 18th cricketer to join this elite list, as he is just 2 wickets shy of the 200 mark and has already scored more than 6000 Test runs.

Garry Sobers has the best batting average (57.78), followed by Jacques Kallis (55.37), while Shane Warne has the lowest batting average (17.32).

Ravindra Jadeja is the only player on this list to have a batting average of over 35 and a bowling average of less than 25. (You can check out Ravindra Jadeja’s Test batting and bowling stats here.)

Only 4 players from the above list have scored 5000 or more runs while taking at least 200 wickets, while the trio of Stuart Broad, Ravi Ashwin, and Shane Warne are the only ones with more than 500 wickets alongside 2000-plus runs.