AR McBrine

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

AR McBrine — 150 career matches, 2,138 runs and 166 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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ARMCBRINE

Bat Avg

24.3

Bowl Avg

32.0

Career stats overview

9 Test · 70 ODI · 71 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

9 matches

536

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

70 matches

812

Runs scored

Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

71 matches

790

Runs scored

Wickets taken

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

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215

wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112

wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4

batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198

wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

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 AR McBrine has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Northern Knights

Matches: 16
Runs: 288
Wickets: 19

Leinster Lightning

Matches: 14
Runs: 139
Wickets: 17

Munster Reds

Matches: 13
Runs: 218
Wickets: 15

Zimbabwe

Matches: 13
Runs: 300
Wickets: 29

West Indies

Matches: 9
Runs: 202
Wickets: 18

South Africa

Matches: 7
Runs: 77
Wickets: 8

Uae

Matches: 7
Runs: 60
Wickets: 11

Bangladesh

Matches: 6
Runs: 174
Wickets: 19

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where AR McBrine has turned out most often.

Pembroke Cricket Club, Sandymount, Dublin

Matches: 18
Runs: 290
Wickets: 16

Bready Cricket Club, Magheramason

Matches: 10
Runs: 98
Wickets: 18

Harare Sports Club

Matches: 9
Runs: 102
Wickets: 15

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont

Matches: 8
Runs: 171
Wickets: 17

The Village, Malahide

Matches: 7
Runs: 225
Wickets: 6

The Green, Comber

Matches: 7
Runs: 95
Wickets: 6

Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Matches: 4
Runs: 36
Wickets: 3

Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1)

Matches: 3
Runs: 26
Wickets: 5

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.