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S Steel

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

S Steel — 40 career matches, 909 runs and 17 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
25.3
Bowl Avg
33.4

Career stats overview

40 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

40 matches

909
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 S Steel has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Yorkshire

Matches
6
Runs
107
Wickets
2

Derbyshire

Matches
5
Runs
122
Wickets
5

Lancashire

Matches
5
Runs
125
Wickets
3

Northamptonshire

Matches
5
Runs
170
Wickets
3

Nottinghamshire

Matches
5
Runs
64
Wickets
1

Worcestershire

Matches
4
Runs
65
Wickets
1

Birmingham Bears

Matches
3
Runs
118
Wickets
1

Durham

Matches
2
Runs
56

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where S Steel has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches
9
Runs
241
Wickets
4

Grace Road

Matches
9
Runs
267
Wickets
4

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
9
Runs
132
Wickets
6

Headingley, Leeds

Matches
4
Runs
37

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches
3
Runs
48

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches
2
Runs
112
Wickets
3

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
1
Runs
72

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.