SSJ Brooks
SSJ Brooks — 99 career matches, 2,475 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.
Career stats overview
12 Test · 29 ODI · 58 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
12 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
29 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
58 matches
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
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 SSJ Brooks has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
India
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 233
Trinbago Knight Riders
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 163
Guyana Amazon Warriors
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 191
Barbados Royals
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 304
New Zealand
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 239
St Lucia Kings
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 123
England
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 274
Pakistan
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 194
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where SSJ Brooks has turned out most often.
Warner Park, Basseterre
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 377
Providence Stadium, Guyana
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 323
Sabina Park, Kingston
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 299
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 255
Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 62
Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 136
Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 65
Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 19
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.