Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori — 270 career matches, 4,634 runs and 421 wickets across all formats.

2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Royal Challengers Bangalore · All-Rounder
Career stats overview
54 Test · 153 ODI · 63 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
54 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
153 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
63 matches
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
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 DL Vettori has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Australia
- Matches
- 38
- Runs
- 923
- Wickets
- 65
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 24
- Runs
- 649
- Wickets
- 45
South Africa
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 432
- Wickets
- 23
England
- Matches
- 20
- Runs
- 462
- Wickets
- 46
India
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 542
- Wickets
- 42
Pakistan
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 657
- Wickets
- 47
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 353
- Wickets
- 55
West Indies
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 153
- Wickets
- 33
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where DL Vettori has turned out most often.
Basin Reserve, Wellington
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 585
- Wickets
- 26
Eden Park, Auckland
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 186
- Wickets
- 21
McLean Park
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 383
- Wickets
- 24
Seddon Park, Hamilton
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 371
- Wickets
- 27
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 238
- Wickets
- 16
The Gabba, Brisbane
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 164
- Wickets
- 16
Adelaide Oval
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 137
- Wickets
- 14
SuperSport Park, Centurion
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 187
- Wickets
- 7
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
DL Vettori's profile
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.
Photo credits (1)
- Daniel Vettori — photo by Benchill, CC BY-SA 3.0 · source