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GC Viljoen

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

GC Viljoen — 110 career matches, 507 runs and 139 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
14.1
Bowl Avg
22.3

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Punjab Kings · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

110 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

110 matches

507
Runs scored
139
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 GC Viljoen has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Warriors

Matches
8
Runs
46
Wickets
14

Titans

Matches
6
Runs
110
Wickets
14

Cape Cobras

Matches
5
Runs
8
Wickets
10

Knights

Matches
4
Runs
35
Wickets
5

Dolphins

Matches
3
Runs
51
Wickets
10

Durban S Super Giants

Matches
3
Runs
11
Wickets
8

Paarl Royals

Matches
3
Runs
11
Wickets
4

Pretoria Capitals

Matches
3
Runs
5
Wickets
6

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where GC Viljoen has turned out most often.

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Matches
11
Runs
109
Wickets
15

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Matches
9
Runs
105
Wickets
32

Senwes Park, Potchefstroom

Matches
8
Runs
69
Wickets
14

Boland Park, Paarl

Matches
7
Runs
16
Wickets
10

County Ground

Matches
7
Runs
48
Wickets
17

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
6
Runs
59
Wickets
12

Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet

Matches
3
Runs
65
Wickets
4

Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Matches
3
Runs
11
Wickets
4

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.