[Gowza]

comparing stats what you see is that they've achieved similar outcomes regardless of the different situations they both bowl under. as far as batting goes though shakib has done better, over a greater period of time, over a greater number of innings. but it's pretty clear shakib has a greater batting responsibility than jadeja. shakib has batted 124 innings out of his 129 matches, jadeja has only batted 54 innings out of his 80 matches. shakib has 19 not outs in 124 innings, jadeja has 16 out of 54 innings. shakib has 5 centuries and 25 half centuries, jadeja has no centuries and only 6 half centuries (even with the difference in innings batted this doesn't match up).

so by looking at stats you get the feeling they're similar as bowlers, but shakib is the better batsman. however i do agree that shakib bowls and bats under more difficult circumstances more often than jadeja does. plus they have different batting roles in that shakib generally bats between 3-5 and jadeja probably bats around #6/7 most of the time. shakib has a slightly higher wickets per match ratio but that could be because he's relied upon much more for wickets than jadeja is, but it's not that big of a difference anyway (jadeja about 1.18 whereas shakib is about 1.29).