Ravindra Jadeja, full name Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja, was born on December 6, 1988, in Navagam Ghed in the Jamnagar district of Gujarat, India. He grew up in a Gujarati Rajput family; his father worked in private security and his mother died in an accident in 2005, a loss that shaped his early determination to succeed in cricket. Jadeja is a left-handed batter and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, and he has built his reputation as one of the finest all-rounders and fielders in modern cricket, according to his official Wikipedia biography.

Jadeja made his first-class debut in the 2006-07 Duleep Trophy for West Zone and quickly built a reputation as a prolific run-scorer, compiling three first-class triple centuries before the age of 24, a feat that placed him in rare company alongside batting greats such as Don Bradman. He captained India’s Under-19 side and then served as vice-captain when India won the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. His senior international career began in February 2009, when he debuted in both One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals against Sri Lanka, though his Test debut did not arrive until December 2012 against England in Nagpur, as detailed on ESPNcricinfo.

Jadeja’s breakthrough on the international stage came during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in England, where he finished as the tournament’s leading wicket-taker with 12 dismissals and played a key role in India’s title-winning campaign under MS Dhoni. His domestic form matched his international rise, and he became India’s first-choice left-arm spinner across all three formats through the mid-2010s. In the Indian Premier League, he was bought by Chennai Super Kings ahead of the 2012 season and quickly became one of the franchise’s most consistent performers, a partnership that would define the next decade of his career.

Across a career spanning more than 15 years, Jadeja has become only the fourth all-rounder in Test history to complete the double of 4,000 runs and 300 wickets, and in October 2019 he became the quickest left-arm bowler to reach 200 Test wickets. In One Day Internationals he became the first Indian bowler since Anil Kumble to top the ICC ODI bowling rankings, and in March 2022 he set an Indian Test record with an unbeaten 175 batting at number seven, breaking a mark that had stood since Kapil Dev held it 36 years earlier. Jadeja was a key member of the squad that reached the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup on home soil, and he closed out his T20I career on the highest possible note by helping India win the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup in Barbados, after which he announced his retirement from the format, as reported by Gulf News.

Jadeja’s consistency across formats has earned him formal recognition from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, which has kept him in its top A+ central contract grade, reportedly worth an annual retainer of INR 7 crore, alongside Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah, even after his T20I retirement, according to ESPNcricinfo’s coverage of the 2024-25 BCCI contracts. He received the Arjuna Award, India’s second-highest sporting honour, in 2019, and has twice been named to the ICC ODI Team of the Year. Within the IPL, he is widely regarded as one of the finest fielders the tournament has produced and struck the winning boundary for Chennai Super Kings in the 2023 IPL final.

Jadeja has built a broad endorsement portfolio spanning fintech, consumer goods, sportswear and electronics. Long-standing partners have included the Japanese sportswear brand ASICS, fantasy sports platform Dream11, fintech lender Kinara Capital, and Chinese electronics maker Hisense, which named him its first Indian brand ambassador for its television, air conditioner and refrigerator lines in October 2023. He has also fronted campaigns for Saatvik Solar, Bharathi TMT steel bars, AS-IT-IS Nutrition and Caltex Lubricants, among other brands, as catalogued by StartupTalky’s list of Jadeja’s endorsement deals. Earlier in his career he was the face of Bajaj Consumer Care’s Cool Almond Drops hair oil range and Head and Shoulders shampoo.

The core of Jadeja’s income beyond match fees comes from his long-running Indian Premier League contracts. He was retained by Chennai Super Kings at a fee of INR 16 crore in the 2022 mega auction, and that figure rose to INR 18 crore when CSK retained him again ahead of the 2025 season. In November 2025, Jadeja was traded to Rajasthan Royals, the franchise where his IPL career began back in 2008, for a fee of INR 14 crore, a reported pay cut of roughly 22 percent from his previous CSK valuation, as confirmed by Sportskeeda’s report on the official trade announcement. Over nearly two decades in the league, his cumulative IPL earnings have been reported to exceed INR 160 crore, per Koimoi’s breakdown of his season-by-season IPL salary.

Jadeja’s primary residence is a four-story bungalow in his home city of Jamnagar that blends traditional Gujarati architectural elements with modern design. Roughly 25 kilometres outside the city, he also owns an eight-acre farmhouse property, known informally as “Mr Jaddu’s Farmhouse,” which includes a cottage, a swimming pool, and stables for three horses that Jadeja personally rides and grooms as a hobby rather than a commercial pursuit, according to Sportskeeda’s profile of his home and farmhouse. He has spoken publicly about horse riding being one of his primary interests away from cricket.