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Venkatesh Iyer
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
Venkatesh Iyer — 93 career matches, 2,398 runs and 25 wickets across all formats.
Runs
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Bat Avg
33.8
Bowl Avg
27.3
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Kolkata Knight Riders · All-Rounder
Career stats overview
93 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
T20I
93 matches
2,398
Runs scored
25
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
12
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
1
winner's medal
Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.
Outfield
38
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 VR Iyer has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 208
Delhi Capitals
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 131
- Wickets
- 2
Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 183
Mumbai Indians
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 365
Chennai Super Kings
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 116
Punjab Kings
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 161
- Wickets
- 1
Rajasthan Royals
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 138
Gujarat Titans
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 125
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where VR Iyer has turned out most often.
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
- Matches
- 21
- Runs
- 511
- Wickets
- 3
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 287
- Wickets
- 1
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 206
- Wickets
- 3
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 95
- Wickets
- 3
Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 70
Sharjah Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 133
- Wickets
- 2
Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 44
BKC Ground
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 67
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
VR Iyer'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.