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M Van Buuren

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

M Van Buuren — 43 career matches, 803 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
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Bat Avg
25.9

Career stats overview

43 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

43 matches

803
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 M Van Buuren has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Joburg Super Kings

Matches
5
Runs
64

Mi Cape Town

Matches
5
Runs
59

Pretoria Capitals

Matches
5
Runs
122

Durban S Super Giants

Matches
4
Runs
101

Sunrisers Eastern Cape

Matches
4
Runs
38

Titans

Matches
4
Runs
30

Boland

Matches
3
Runs
12

Dolphins

Matches
3
Runs
58

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where M Van Buuren has turned out most often.

Boland Park, Paarl

Matches
12
Runs
162

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Matches
10
Runs
233

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Matches
8
Runs
39

Senwes Park, Potchefstroom

Matches
6
Runs
155

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
2
Runs
77

Kingsmead, Durban

Matches
2
Runs
77

Newlands, Cape Town

Matches
2
Runs
28

OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein

Matches
1
Runs
32

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.