BAC Howell

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

BAC Howell — 208 career matches, 2,746 runs and 223 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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BACHOWELL

Bat Avg

23.5

Bowl Avg

22.4

Career stats overview

208 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

208 matches

2,746

Runs scored

223

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 BAC Howell has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Sussex

Matches: 17
Runs: 266
Wickets: 21

Somerset

Matches: 15
Runs: 295
Wickets: 20

Glamorgan

Matches: 13
Runs: 200
Wickets: 20

Kent

Matches: 13
Runs: 249
Wickets: 26

Middlesex

Matches: 13
Runs: 317
Wickets: 18

Surrey

Matches: 12
Runs: 172
Wickets: 12

Essex

Matches: 11
Runs: 135
Wickets: 16

Comilla Victorians

Matches: 7
Runs: 140
Wickets: 6

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where BAC Howell has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 37
Runs: 520
Wickets: 54

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches: 19
Runs: 317
Wickets: 17

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 15
Runs: 179
Wickets: 26

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches: 15
Runs: 264
Wickets: 21

College Ground

Matches: 10
Runs: 206
Wickets: 31

County Ground, Bristol

Matches: 10
Runs: 207
Wickets: 7

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches: 9
Runs: 128
Wickets: 8

The Oval, London

Matches: 8
Runs: 59
Wickets: 6

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.