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NL Buck

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

NL Buck — 48 career matches, 99 runs and 51 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
12.4
Bowl Avg
27.6

Career stats overview

48 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

48 matches

99
Runs scored
51
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 NL Buck has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Yorkshire

Matches
4
Runs
22
Wickets
4

Birmingham Bears

Matches
2
Runs
42
Wickets
8

Derbyshire

Matches
2
Wickets
6

Durham

Matches
2
Runs
11
Wickets
2

Nottinghamshire

Matches
2
Runs
8
Wickets
2

Worcestershire

Matches
2
Runs
5
Wickets
8

Glamorgan

Matches
1
Runs
1
Wickets
4

Gloucestershire

Matches
1
Runs
2
Wickets
2

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where NL Buck has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches
10
Runs
82
Wickets
21

Headingley, Leeds

Matches
3
Runs
3
Wickets
4

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
1
Wickets
1

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches
1
Runs
1

The Cooper Associates County Ground

Matches
1
Runs
8
Wickets
1

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches
1
Runs
5
Wickets
1

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
0
Wickets
11

Grace Road

Matches
0
Wickets
9

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.