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JL Finnie

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

JL Finnie — 39 career matches, 541 runs and 3 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
15.9
Bowl Avg
55.0

Career stats overview

39 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

39 matches

541
Runs scored
3
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 JL Finnie has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Canterbury

Matches
9
Runs
141

Wellington

Matches
8
Runs
74

Auckland

Matches
7
Runs
86

Central Districts

Matches
7
Runs
71

Northern Districts

Matches
7
Runs
169
Wickets
3

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where JL Finnie has turned out most often.

University Oval

Matches
10
Runs
147
Wickets
2

Basin Reserve, Wellington

Matches
5
Runs
45

Eden Park, Auckland

Matches
5
Runs
68

Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Matches
5
Runs
55

Molyneux Park, Alexandra

Matches
5
Runs
104

John Davies Oval

Matches
2
Runs
16
Wickets
1

McLean Park

Matches
2
Runs
25

Pukekura Park, New Plymouth

Matches
1
Runs
11

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.