PI Walter

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

PI Walter — 146 career matches, 2,196 runs and 93 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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PIWALTER

Bat Avg

20.7

Bowl Avg

27.9

Career stats overview

146 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

146 matches

2,196

Runs scored

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

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

winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

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 PI Walter has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Kent

Matches: 16
Runs: 342
Wickets: 8

Hampshire

Matches: 14
Runs: 198
Wickets: 11

Middlesex

Matches: 14
Runs: 237
Wickets: 9

Sussex

Matches: 14
Runs: 189
Wickets: 4

Somerset

Matches: 12
Runs: 240
Wickets: 8

Glamorgan

Matches: 10
Runs: 311
Wickets: 9

Surrey

Matches: 8
Runs: 152
Wickets: 12

Northern Superchargers

Matches: 7
Runs: 121
Wickets: 5

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where PI Walter has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 49
Runs: 947
Wickets: 33

Lord's, London

Matches: 12
Runs: 125
Wickets: 8

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 12
Runs: 198
Wickets: 3

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches: 10
Runs: 115
Wickets: 12

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches: 10
Runs: 198
Wickets: 7

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 7
Runs: 78
Wickets: 6

St Lawrence Ground

Matches: 7
Runs: 209
Wickets: 3

The Gabba, Brisbane

Matches: 6
Runs: 87
Wickets: 7

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.