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Irfan Ahmed

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Irfan Ahmed — 21 career matches, 490 runs and 16 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
23.3
Bowl Avg
24.9

Career stats overview

21 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

21 matches

490
Runs scored
16
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 Irfan Ahmed has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Nepal

Matches
4
Runs
17
Wickets
4

Namibia

Matches
3
Runs
155
Wickets
1

Bangladesh

Matches
2
Runs
65
Wickets
1

Ireland

Matches
2
Runs
14
Wickets
3

Uae

Matches
2
Runs
49
Wickets
2

Usa

Matches
2
Runs
34
Wickets
1

Canada

Matches
1
Runs
100
Wickets
2

India

Matches
1
Runs
25

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where Irfan Ahmed has turned out most often.

Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Matches
5
Runs
45
Wickets
1

Abu Dhabi Oval 1

Matches
3
Runs
139
Wickets
2

Clontarf Cricket Club Ground

Matches
2
Runs
124
Wickets
2

The Village, Malahide

Matches
2
Runs
17
Wickets
5

National Stadium

Matches
2
Runs
25
Wickets
2

Yeonhui Cricket Ground

Matches
2
Runs
32

Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram

Matches
2
Runs
34
Wickets
1

Abu Dhabi Oval 2

Matches
1
Runs
8

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.