AK Kitchen

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

AK Kitchen — 43 career matches, 790 runs and 25 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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AKKITCHEN

Bat Avg

21.4

Bowl Avg

38.7

Career stats overview

43 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

43 matches

790

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Death economy

7.41

econ · ov 17–20

One of three left-arm specialists under 7.5 at the death.

Powerplay surprise

PP wickets

92 kph into the stumps.

End-overs hitting

148.2

SR · ov 16–20

Harder than anyone in India's lower order.

T20 WC 2024

winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

catches

Fielder of his generation even in T20s.

Opp SR

114.2

batters' SR

They still haven't figured out easy boundaries.

Career threads

Beyond the numbers

Elite across all three formats

788 wickets across all formats. Equally lethal on spinning Indian decks and unforgiving overseas tracks.

Test cricket is where the numbers peak

A batting average in all-rounder territory, a bowling average in the mid-twenties, a No.1 ranking held across multiple cycles.

A franchise career of its own

250 IPL appearances, 173 wickets — four titles with Chennai, and the 2026 move brings it full circle.

Sir Jadeja

The meme that became a compliment. A cultural marker only a handful of modern players carry.

Head-to-head

Vs opponents

Career totals broken down by the teams AK Kitchen has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Canterbury

Matches: 9
Runs: 139
Wickets: 5

Auckland

Matches: 8
Runs: 87
Wickets: 5

Central Districts

Matches: 8
Runs: 158
Wickets: 8

Northern Districts

Matches: 8
Runs: 126
Wickets: 5

Wellington

Matches: 7
Runs: 280
Wickets: 2

West Indies

Matches: 3
Runs: 22
Wickets: 1

Otago

Matches: 1
Runs: 15

Pakistan

Matches: 1
Runs: 16
Wickets: 1

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where AK Kitchen has turned out most often.

University Oval

Matches: 9
Runs: 268
Wickets: 5

Eden Park, Auckland

Matches: 6
Runs: 63
Wickets: 4

Molyneux Park, Alexandra

Matches: 6
Runs: 73
Wickets: 3

Bay Oval

Matches: 5
Runs: 46
Wickets: 2

Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Matches: 5
Runs: 84
Wickets: 3

Basin Reserve, Wellington

Matches: 3
Runs: 100
Wickets: 1

McLean Park

Matches: 3
Runs: 38
Wickets: 2

John Davies Oval

Matches: 2
Runs: 70
Wickets: 1

Historical aggregates derived from Cricsheet (cricsheet.org) under ODC-BY licence. 2001/02–2026 IPL seasons. Batting average uses dismissals as the denominator; bowler wickets are credited only for bowler-kind dismissals (bowled, caught, lbw, caught-and-bowled, stumped, hit wicket). Venue and opposition splits are rebuilt after every ingest from the Cricsheet archive.