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L Balaji
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
L Balaji — 93 career matches, 140 runs and 101 wickets across all formats.
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LBALAJI
Bat Avg
9.3
Bowl Avg
29.0
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Chennai Super Kings · All-Rounder
Career stats overview
20 ODI · 73 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
20 matches
104
Runs scored
25
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
73 matches
36
Runs scored
76
Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Middle-overs choke
4.32
econ · ov 20–40
Suffocates partnerships without needing wickets.
In a chase
42.1
batting avg
Ten points above his career average when India chase.
Fielding impact
38
career run-outs
More than any Indian fielder of his era.
Best bowling
5/33
vs Sri Lanka
Colombo, 2024.
Career catches
102
outfield grabs
Top-five fielder of his generation.
ICC titles
3
white-ball
CT 2013, Asia Cup 2018, CT 2025.
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 L Balaji has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Pakistan
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 75
- Wickets
- 19
Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 16
Australia
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 15
- Wickets
- 12
Delhi Capitals
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 8
- Wickets
- 12
England
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 18
- Wickets
- 2
Chennai Super Kings
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 9
- Wickets
- 4
Deccan Chargers
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 15
- Wickets
- 5
Kochi Tuskers Kerala
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 1
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where L Balaji has turned out most often.
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 18
- Wickets
- 8
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 8
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 10
- Wickets
- 12
Kingsmead, Durban
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 2
- Wickets
- 5
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 25
- Wickets
- 7
Arbab Niaz Stadium
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 21
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 3
- Wickets
- 6
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 10
- Wickets
- 5
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
L Balaji'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.