RF Higgins

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

RF Higgins — 130 career matches, 2,197 runs and 99 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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RFHIGGINS

Bat Avg

24.7

Bowl Avg

26.2

Career stats overview

130 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

130 matches

2,197

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 RF Higgins has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Somerset

Matches: 18
Runs: 275
Wickets: 9

Glamorgan

Matches: 15
Runs: 353
Wickets: 20

Surrey

Matches: 14
Runs: 259
Wickets: 11

Essex

Matches: 13
Runs: 260
Wickets: 5

Hampshire

Matches: 12
Runs: 203
Wickets: 11

Sussex

Matches: 12
Runs: 223
Wickets: 6

Kent

Matches: 10
Runs: 174
Wickets: 11

Gloucestershire

Matches: 9
Runs: 174
Wickets: 6

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where RF Higgins has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 37
Runs: 604
Wickets: 27

Lord's, London

Matches: 19
Runs: 263
Wickets: 10

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches: 11
Runs: 194
Wickets: 17

The Cooper Associates County Ground

Matches: 8
Runs: 146
Wickets: 6

The Oval, London

Matches: 8
Runs: 211
Wickets: 4

County Ground, Bristol

Matches: 7
Runs: 91
Wickets: 6

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches: 7
Runs: 136
Wickets: 6

College Ground

Matches: 6
Runs: 160
Wickets: 10

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.