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Sam Billings
India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter
Sam Billings is an English batter who has played for Kent, England Cricket, Sydney Thunder, Oval Invincibles and a string of other franchises across the globe. His primary competition is the T20 Blast, where he has made 130 appearances, but his 368-match career spans eight formats including the Big Bash League, PSL, IPL and ILT20. Career totals sit at 7,808 runs, a batting average of 25.77 and a strike rate of 130.26. His most recent appearances came in the 2026 PSL campaign, where he scored half-centuries against both Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans before a low return against Quetta Gladiators brought the sequence to a close.
Runs
0
Bat Avg
25.8
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Delhi Capitals · Batter
Recent form
Billings registered scores of 58 and 56 not out in consecutive PSL outings in early April 2026, though those performances were bookended by low returns of 7 and 1 in his other two innings of that week
Strongest format
T20 Blast — With 130 matches and 2,684 runs at a strike rate of 136.59, the T20 Blast is Billings's most played and most productive competition in terms of volume
Career stats overview
22 ODI · 346 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
22 matches
690
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
346 matches
7,118
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Middle-overs choke
4.32
econ · ov 20–40
Suffocates partnerships without needing wickets.
In a chase
42.1
batting avg
Ten points above his career average when India chase.
Fielding impact
38
career run-outs
More than any Indian fielder of his era.
Best bowling
5/33
vs Sri Lanka
Colombo, 2024.
Career catches
102
outfield grabs
Top-five fielder of his generation.
ICC titles
3
white-ball
CT 2013, Asia Cup 2018, CT 2025.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
368 matches across eight major competitions
Sam Billings has played 368 career innings across the T20 Blast, Big Bash League, PSL, IPL, ILT20 and international cricket. That breadth of franchise experience, combined with 7,808 career runs, makes him one of the more widely-travelled English T20 specialists in the warehouse.
Strike rate above 136 in the T20 Blast
Across 130 T20 Blast appearances for Kent, Billings averages 25.81 at a strike rate of 136.59. His primary competition is also his most consistent in terms of volume, and the St Lawrence Ground returns underpin much of that record.
PSL his sharpest strike-rate format
In 32 PSL matches, Billings has struck at 145.55 with a batting average of 28.12. That combination of rate and average makes the PSL his most potent competition by run-scoring efficiency, even if the Blast accounts for the bulk of his career innings.
St Lawrence Ground: 1,385 runs at 34.63
At his Kent home ground, Billings has amassed 1,385 runs across 55 matches at an average of 34.63 and a strike rate of 145.94. Both figures sit well above his overall career averages of 25.77 and 130.26 respectively.
Two fifties in five PSL innings heading into April 2026
Billings scored 58 off 35 balls against Karachi Kings on 2 April 2026 and 56 not out off 34 balls against Multan Sultans on 6 April, showing he can produce big innings in the PSL even during a difficult team run for his side.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams SW Billings has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Somerset
- Matches
- 20
- Runs
- 466
Gloucestershire
- Matches
- 19
- Runs
- 370
Essex
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 362
Surrey
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 259
Sussex
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 484
Middlesex
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 197
Australia
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 364
Hampshire
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 309
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where SW Billings has turned out most often.
St Lawrence Ground
- Matches
- 55
- Runs
- 1,385
The Oval, London
- Matches
- 27
- Runs
- 389
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 24
- Runs
- 681
County Ground
- Matches
- 22
- Runs
- 415
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 391
The Rose Bowl, Southampton
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 284
Lord's, London
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 146
Sydney Showground Stadium
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 223
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
SW Billings's profile
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.
Photo credits (1)
- Sam Billings — photo by M.o.B 68, CC BY-SA 2.0 · source