SJ Croft

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

SJ Croft — 136 career matches, 3,048 runs and 50 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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SJCROFT

Bat Avg

33.1

Bowl Avg

26.0

Career stats overview

136 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

136 matches

3,048

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 SJ Croft has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Durham

Matches: 20
Runs: 434
Wickets: 9

Yorkshire

Matches: 18
Runs: 428
Wickets: 3

Derbyshire

Matches: 15
Runs: 397
Wickets: 7

Worcestershire

Matches: 15
Runs: 373
Wickets: 5

Leicestershire

Matches: 14
Runs: 381
Wickets: 9

Nottinghamshire

Matches: 14
Runs: 302
Wickets: 4

Northamptonshire

Matches: 11
Runs: 283
Wickets: 3

Warwickshire

Matches: 8
Runs: 106
Wickets: 6

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where SJ Croft has turned out most often.

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 57
Runs: 1,183
Wickets: 19

County Ground

Matches: 18
Runs: 617
Wickets: 7

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 14
Runs: 254
Wickets: 6

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches: 12
Runs: 214
Wickets: 6

Headingley, Leeds

Matches: 11
Runs: 295
Wickets: 4

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches: 8
Runs: 147
Wickets: 3

Grace Road

Matches: 6
Runs: 170
Wickets: 5

Stanley Park

Matches: 3
Runs: 153

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.