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NS Naik
India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter
NS Naik — 26 career matches, 487 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.
Runs
0
NSNAIK
Bat Avg
30.4
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Kolkata Knight Riders · Batter
Career stats overview
26 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
T20I
26 matches
487
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 NS Naik has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Baroda
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 19
Gujarat
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 80
Karnataka
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 70
Mumbai
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 33
Mumbai Indians
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 2
Services
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 79
Uttar Pradesh
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 55
Arunachal Pradesh
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 14
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where NS Naik has turned out most often.
Airforce Complex ground, Palam
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 66
GSSS, Sector 26
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 54
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 94
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 151
DRIEMS Ground
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 45
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 8
Lalbhai Contractor Stadium
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 30
Motibaug Cricket Ground
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 14
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.