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TL Chatara

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

TL Chatara — 128 career matches, 293 runs and 170 wickets across all formats.

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Bat Avg
7.5
Bowl Avg
29.7

Career stats overview

10 Test · 70 ODI · 48 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

10 matches

94
Runs scored
26
Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

70 matches

176
Runs scored
93
Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

48 matches

23
Runs scored
51
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215
wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112
wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4
batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198
wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

14
five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

2
finals played

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 TL Chatara has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Bangladesh

Matches
14
Runs
71
Wickets
28

India

Matches
9
Runs
34
Wickets
8

Ireland

Matches
8
Runs
17
Wickets
24

South Africa

Matches
7
Runs
47
Wickets
12

Pakistan

Matches
6
Runs
44
Wickets
25

West Indies

Matches
5
Runs
33
Wickets
8

Netherlands

Matches
4
Runs
10
Wickets
3

Scotland

Matches
4
Runs
9
Wickets
13

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where TL Chatara has turned out most often.

Harare Sports Club

Matches
21
Runs
133
Wickets
55

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches
7
Runs
46
Wickets
16

Queens Sports Club

Matches
6
Runs
12
Wickets
12

Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont

Matches
3
Runs
6
Wickets
3

Bellerive Oval

Matches
2
Runs
4
Wickets
7

Bready Cricket Club, Magheramason

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
4

Grange Cricket Club Ground, Raeburn Place

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
6

Pallekele International Cricket Stadium

Matches
2
Runs
9
Wickets
4

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.