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R Sanjay Yadav

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

R Sanjay Yadav — 25 career matches, 483 runs and 17 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
25.4
Bowl Avg
27.5

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Mumbai Indians · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

25 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

25 matches

483
Runs scored
17
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 R Sanjay Yadav has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Bengal

Matches
2
Runs
46

Delhi

Matches
2
Runs
6
Wickets
1

Goa

Matches
2
Runs
66

Karnataka

Matches
2
Runs
24
Wickets
1

Mizoram

Matches
2
Runs
32

Arunachal Pradesh

Matches
1
Runs
18
Wickets
1

Assam

Matches
1
Wickets
2

Baroda

Matches
1

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where R Sanjay Yadav has turned out most often.

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Matches
7
Runs
179
Wickets
3

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Matches
2
Runs
37
Wickets
3

Dr P.V.G. Raju ACA Sports Complex

Matches
2
Runs
47

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Matches
2
Runs
58

Ju Second Campus

Matches
2
Runs
1

Ssn College Ground

Matches
2
Runs
20
Wickets
2

Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun

Matches
1
Wickets
1

BKC Ground

Matches
1
Runs
21
Wickets
2

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.