India, Aug. 17 -- Ravindra Jadeja reached 350 Test wickets in Galle by dismissing Sri Lanka debutant Keshara Nuwantha on the third afternoon of the first Test. Bowling the fourth ball of his 17th over, Jadeja dragged his length back outside off and induced an attempted cut from Nuwantha. The ball struck Yashasvi Jaiswal at silly point before looping towards cover, where Shubman Gill completed the catch. Nuwantha departed for 2, Sri Lanka slipped to 243/7, and Jadeja became only the fifth Indian after Anil Kumble, R Ashwin, Kapil Dev and Harbhajan Singh to take 350 Test wickets.

But 350 wickets tell only half of Jadeja's story. He entered the Galle Test with 4,095 runs at 38.27 and 348 wickets at 25.11 from 89 matches, before scoring 13 i...