Ranking top 5 current fastest runners in international cricket

3. Ravindra Jadeja

Ravindra Jadeja was bound to make it into the list of fastest runners in cricket, inevitably. Arguably, he is the fastest and the sharpest fielder in the world, and he does all that with a calm head. The left-hander is a productive batsman, an accurate bowler, and a gun fielder; he isn’t nicknamed ‘Sir’ for nothing.

He invariably scores above the average rating in the Yo-Yo test, a fitness test that is mandatory to pass for selection in the Indian team and hits the 19-point mark regularly in it. Last year Virat Kohli put up a tweet in which even the Indian captain is finding it difficult to outrun Jadeja.

Love group conditioning sessions. And when Jaddu is in the group, it’s almost impossible to outrun him 😃👌. @RishabhPant17 @imjadeja pic.twitter.com/QMK4nysoFh

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) November 25, 2019

The Saurashtra-born all-rounder has a bullet throw from the deep and almost never misses a catch. He has made an indelible mark at the point region and has a penchant of hitting the bulls-eye, even from an angle where he has only one stump to aim at. In between the wickets, the 31-year-old runs like a hare, a skill he has developed over the years, playing with the likes of MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.