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Philip Salt
India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter
Phil Salt is a batter who has played for England Cricket, Sussex, Lancashire, Manchester Originals and a string of franchise sides across T20 leagues worldwide. His primary competition is the T20 Blast, where he has played 93 of his 289 career matches. Across all formats he has scored 8,069 runs at a batting average of 30.22 and a strike rate of 151.08. Numbers that reflect an opener built for the shortest format. On recent form he has been productive but inconsistent, with a 78 off 36 balls against Mumbai Indians on 12 April 2026 sitting alongside three single-figure scores in the last ten appearances.
Runs
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Bat Avg
30.2
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Royal Challengers Bangalore · Batter
Recent form
Salt scored 78 off 36 balls against Mumbai Indians on 12 April 2026 and 46 off 30 against Chennai Super Kings on 5 April, though a first-ball duck against Rajasthan Royals on 10 April is a reminder of
Strongest format
T20 International — Salt's T20I record for England. 1,689 runs at 35.19 and a strike rate of 165.59 from 55 matches. Is his best average across any competition, and his s
Career stats overview
30 ODI · 259 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
30 matches
976
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
259 matches
7,093
Runs scored
0
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
289 matches, 8,069 runs at SR 151.08
Salt has accumulated 8,069 runs from 289 appearances across formats and leagues, averaging 30.22 with a career strike rate of 151.08. That combination of volume and aggression places him amongst the most active T20 batters of his generation.
T20 internationals are his sharpest format
Across 55 T20Is for England, Salt averages 35.19 at a strike rate of 165.59. Both figures sit comfortably above his career norms, suggesting international cricket brings out a particularly fluent version of his game.
Eden Gardens: 436 runs at an average of 43.6
Salt's record at Eden Gardens stands out across his venue splits. In 11 matches there he has scored 436 runs at 43.6, hitting at a strike rate of 180.91. His most destructive ground record by some distance.
West Indies Cricket his strongest opposition
In 20 matches against West Indies, Salt has averaged 52.41 and scored 891 runs. That average is nearly double what he manages against India (17.91 from 11 games), making the West Indies fixture a historically productive one for him.
IPL 2026 showing signs of top-end form
Salt opened the 2026 IPL with 78 off 36 balls against Mumbai Indians, following a 46 off 30 against Chennai Super Kings. Two substantial contributions in four outings suggests he is hitting his straps at the business end of the tournament.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams PD Salt has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
West Indies
- Matches
- 20
- Runs
- 891
Pakistan
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 339
Australia
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 239
India
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 197
Northern Superchargers
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 225
Surrey
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 241
Glamorgan
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 221
Gloucestershire
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 195
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where PD Salt has turned out most often.
Old Trafford, Manchester
- Matches
- 39
- Runs
- 1,186
County Ground
- Matches
- 37
- Runs
- 1,111
Adelaide Oval
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 414
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 436
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 213
Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 224
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 174
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 343
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
PD Salt'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.
Photo credits (1)
- Philip Salt — photo by Dave Morton, Public domain · source