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Arafat Sunny

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Arafat Sunny — 117 career matches, 291 runs and 126 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
13.2
Bowl Avg
22.0

Career stats overview

15 ODI · 102 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

15 matches

48
Runs scored
22
Wickets taken

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

T20I

102 matches

243
Runs scored
104
Wickets taken

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

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Middle-overs choke

4.32
econ · ov 20–40

Suffocates partnerships without needing wickets.

In a chase

42.1
batting avg

Ten points above his career average when India chase.

Fielding impact

38
career run-outs

More than any Indian fielder of his era.

Best bowling

5/33
vs Sri Lanka

Colombo, 2024.

Career catches

102
outfield grabs

Top-five fielder of his generation.

ICC titles

3
white-ball

CT 2013, Asia Cup 2018, CT 2025.

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 Arafat Sunny has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Zimbabwe

Matches
6
Runs
37
Wickets
13

Comilla Victorians

Matches
5
Runs
18
Wickets
6

Rangpur Riders

Matches
5
Runs
12
Wickets
6

Sri Lanka

Matches
5
Runs
14
Wickets
7

Fortune Barishal

Matches
4
Runs
37
Wickets
3

Khulna Tigers

Matches
3
Runs
34
Wickets
8

Chattogram Challengers

Matches
2
Runs
3
Wickets
7

Dhaka Dynamites

Matches
2
Runs
20
Wickets
10

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where Arafat Sunny has turned out most often.

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches
34
Runs
165
Wickets
73

Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram

Matches
10
Runs
72
Wickets
31

Sylhet International Cricket Stadium

Matches
4
Runs
33
Wickets
14

Adelaide Oval

Matches
1
Runs
3

Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Matches
1
Runs
8

MA Aziz Stadium

Matches
1
Wickets
2

Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium

Matches
1
Runs
10
Wickets
2

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Matches
0
Wickets
2

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.