Karun Nair

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Karun Nair — 131 career matches, 3,475 runs and 2 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Bat Avg

29.4

Bowl Avg

27.0

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Delhi Capitals · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

10 Test · 121 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

10 matches

579

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

T20I

121 matches

2,896

Runs scored

Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215

wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112

wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4

batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198

wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

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 KK Nair has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Mumbai Indians

Matches: 12
Runs: 261

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Matches: 12
Runs: 236

Kolkata Knight Riders

Matches: 11
Runs: 202

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Matches: 11
Runs: 245

Delhi Capitals

Matches: 7
Runs: 258

England

Matches: 7
Runs: 525

Punjab Kings

Matches: 7
Runs: 122

Chennai Super Kings

Matches: 5
Runs: 102

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where KK Nair has turned out most often.

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Matches: 22
Runs: 615
Wickets: 2

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

Matches: 9
Runs: 208

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

Matches: 7
Runs: 159

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

Matches: 7
Runs: 250

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Matches: 6
Runs: 169

Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore

Matches: 6
Runs: 87

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Matches: 6
Runs: 93

Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Matches: 5
Runs: 70

Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

ESPNcricinfo

KK Nair's profile

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.

Photo credits (1)

Karun Nair — photo by User:Vishu@2008, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source