SM Solia

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

SM Solia — 67 career matches, 1,026 runs and 27 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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SMSOLIA

Bat Avg

18.3

Bowl Avg

38.0

Career stats overview

67 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

67 matches

1,026

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 SM Solia has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Canterbury

Matches: 16
Runs: 224
Wickets: 3

Northern Districts

Matches: 13
Runs: 254
Wickets: 7

Otago

Matches: 13
Runs: 267
Wickets: 8

Central Districts

Matches: 10
Runs: 110
Wickets: 4

Wellington

Matches: 9
Runs: 171
Wickets: 5

Papua New Guinea

Matches: 2
Runs: 101
Wickets: 1

Vanuatu

Matches: 2
Runs: 11
Wickets: 5

Fiji

Matches: 1
Runs: 10
Wickets: 4

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where SM Solia has turned out most often.

Eden Park, Auckland

Matches: 32
Runs: 449
Wickets: 14

Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Matches: 8
Runs: 147
Wickets: 2

Seddon Park, Hamilton

Matches: 6
Runs: 114
Wickets: 2

Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1)

Matches: 5
Runs: 168

Basin Reserve, Wellington

Matches: 3
Runs: 122
Wickets: 2

Molyneux Park, Alexandra

Matches: 3
Runs: 70
Wickets: 1

Albert Park 1

Matches: 2
Runs: 14
Wickets: 3

Albert Park 2

Matches: 2
Runs: 46
Wickets: 7

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.