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KB Arun Karthik

India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter

KB Arun Karthik — 30 career matches, 509 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
20.4

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Royal Challengers Bangalore · Batter

Career stats overview

30 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

30 matches

509
Runs scored
0
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 KB Arun Karthik has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Andhra

Matches
3
Runs
35

Hyderabad India

Matches
3
Runs
38

Bengal

Matches
2
Runs
44

Delhi

Matches
2

Goa

Matches
2
Runs
37

Jharkhand

Matches
2
Runs
6

Madhya Pradesh

Matches
2
Runs
60

Mumbai Indians

Matches
2
Runs
31

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where KB Arun Karthik has turned out most often.

Dr. Gokaraju Laila Ganga Raju ACA Cricket Complex -DVR Ground,Mulapadu

Matches
5
Runs
39

BKC Ground

Matches
4
Runs
34

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Matches
4
Runs
172

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Matches
3
Runs
25

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Matches
3
Runs
58

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

Matches
3
Runs
92

Reliance Cricket Stadium

Matches
3
Runs
1

Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam

Matches
3
Runs
69

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.