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RJ Gleeson

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

RJ Gleeson — 89 career matches, 51 runs and 112 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
5.7
Bowl Avg
21.5

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Chennai Super Kings · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

89 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

89 matches

51
Runs scored
112
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 RJ Gleeson has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Worcestershire

Matches
4
Runs
18
Wickets
14

Durham

Matches
3
Runs
5
Wickets
12

Mi Cape Town

Matches
3
Runs
2
Wickets
6

Nottinghamshire

Matches
2
Runs
4
Wickets
8

Oval Invincibles

Matches
2
Runs
3
Wickets
6

Trent Rockets

Matches
2
Runs
8
Wickets
4

Yorkshire

Matches
2
Runs
6
Wickets
13

Birmingham Bears

Matches
1
Runs
4
Wickets
3

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where RJ Gleeson has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches
6
Runs
22
Wickets
32

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
6
Runs
7
Wickets
17

Headingley, Leeds

Matches
2
Runs
6
Wickets
6

Lord's, London

Matches
2
Runs
11
Wickets
10

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
2
Runs
5
Wickets
9

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Matches
2
Runs
1
Wickets
10

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Matches
2
Runs
2
Wickets
5

Bellerive Oval

Matches
1

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.