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B Fernando

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

B Fernando — 71 career matches, 89 runs and 88 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
17.8
Bowl Avg
21.1

Career stats overview

71 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

71 matches

89
Runs scored
88
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

12
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

1
winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

38
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 B Fernando has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

England

Matches
4
Runs
46
Wickets
3

Chattogram Royals

Matches
2
Runs
6
Wickets
8

Colombo Stars

Matches
2
Runs
13
Wickets
1

New Zealand

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
3

Australia

Matches
1
Runs
2
Wickets
2

Bangladesh

Matches
1
Runs
6
Wickets
7

Colombo Kings

Matches
1
Runs
11

Dambulla Sixers

Matches
1
Runs
2
Wickets
3

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where B Fernando has turned out most often.

R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Matches
6
Runs
25
Wickets
30

Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa

Matches
3
Runs
22
Wickets
5

Bay Oval

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
2

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches
2
Runs
4
Wickets
17

Bloomfield Cricket And Athletic Club Ground

Matches
1
Wickets
1

County Ground, Bristol

Matches
1
Runs
7

Harare Sports Club

Matches
1
Wickets
2

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Matches
1
Runs
6
Wickets
3

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.