JJ Cobb

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

JJ Cobb — 122 career matches, 3,073 runs and 49 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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Bat Avg

28.4

Bowl Avg

34.4

Career stats overview

122 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

122 matches

3,073

Runs scored

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 JJ Cobb has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Durham

Matches: 17
Runs: 384
Wickets: 10

Derbyshire

Matches: 14
Runs: 496
Wickets: 6

Worcestershire

Matches: 14
Runs: 384
Wickets: 7

Birmingham Bears

Matches: 13
Runs: 310
Wickets: 1

Yorkshire

Matches: 12
Runs: 160
Wickets: 4

Lancashire

Matches: 11
Runs: 375
Wickets: 4

Leicestershire

Matches: 11
Runs: 311
Wickets: 5

Nottinghamshire

Matches: 10
Runs: 265
Wickets: 4

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where JJ Cobb has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 61
Runs: 1,650
Wickets: 24

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 16
Runs: 437
Wickets: 4

Grace Road

Matches: 13
Runs: 348
Wickets: 10

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches: 11
Runs: 125

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches: 9
Runs: 172
Wickets: 4

Headingley, Leeds

Matches: 7
Runs: 49
Wickets: 2

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 6
Runs: 154

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches: 6
Runs: 61
Wickets: 2

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.