LA Dawson

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

LA Dawson — 243 career matches, 2,327 runs and 235 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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LADAWSON

Bat Avg

19.1

Bowl Avg

25.5

Career stats overview

8 ODI · 235 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

8 matches

Runs scored

Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

235 matches

2,262

Runs scored

226

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

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

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 LA Dawson has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Essex

Matches: 15
Runs: 208
Wickets: 26

Somerset

Matches: 14
Runs: 299
Wickets: 17

Middlesex

Matches: 11
Runs: 180
Wickets: 10

Kent

Matches: 10
Runs: 188
Wickets: 11

Oval Invincibles

Matches: 8
Runs: 33
Wickets: 7

Sussex

Matches: 8
Runs: 159
Wickets: 10

Glamorgan

Matches: 7
Runs: 156
Wickets: 18

Gloucestershire

Matches: 7
Runs: 73
Wickets: 10

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where LA Dawson has turned out most often.

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches: 38
Runs: 509
Wickets: 69

County Ground

Matches: 18
Runs: 330
Wickets: 24

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches: 12
Runs: 118
Wickets: 10

Lord's, London

Matches: 11
Runs: 109
Wickets: 29

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 10
Runs: 63
Wickets: 8

Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Matches: 9
Runs: 173
Wickets: 6

Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

Matches: 9
Runs: 182
Wickets: 9

The Oval, London

Matches: 8
Runs: 69
Wickets: 6

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.