R Tewatia

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

R Tewatia — 128 career matches, 1,739 runs and 49 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

RTEWATIA

Bat Avg

28.5

Bowl Avg

32.1

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Gujarat Titans · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

128 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

128 matches

1,739

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 R Tewatia has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Punjab Kings

Matches: 13
Runs: 211
Wickets: 4

Delhi Capitals

Matches: 10
Runs: 140
Wickets: 2

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Matches: 10
Runs: 183
Wickets: 2

Chennai Super Kings

Matches: 9
Runs: 88
Wickets: 8

Mumbai Indians

Matches: 9
Runs: 112
Wickets: 4

Kolkata Knight Riders

Matches: 8
Runs: 127
Wickets: 10

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Matches: 8
Runs: 107
Wickets: 2

Lucknow Super Giants

Matches: 7
Runs: 106

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where R Tewatia has turned out most often.

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

Matches: 16
Runs: 199
Wickets: 1

Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Matches: 14
Runs: 303
Wickets: 6

Dubai International Cricket Stadium

Matches: 9
Runs: 129
Wickets: 6

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Matches: 8
Runs: 154
Wickets: 6

Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune

Matches: 5
Runs: 49

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Matches: 5
Runs: 84

Sharjah Cricket Stadium

Matches: 5
Runs: 157
Wickets: 5

BKC Ground

Matches: 4
Runs: 63
Wickets: 2

Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

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R Tewatia'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.