Yasim Murtaza

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Yasim Murtaza — 28 career matches, 316 runs and 31 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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Bat Avg

15.1

Bowl Avg

22.1

Career stats overview

28 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

28 matches

316

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 Yasim Murtaza has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Kuwait

Matches: 11
Runs: 202
Wickets: 14

Malaysia

Matches: 8
Runs: 128
Wickets: 13

Qatar

Matches: 8
Runs: 92
Wickets: 6

Bahrain

Matches: 5
Runs: 77
Wickets: 5

Nepal

Matches: 4
Runs: 47
Wickets: 3

Singapore

Matches: 4
Runs: 42
Wickets: 9

Uae

Matches: 4
Runs: 71
Wickets: 7

Japan

Matches: 2
Runs: 68
Wickets: 5

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where Yasim Murtaza has turned out most often.

Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok

Matches: 15
Runs: 333
Wickets: 17

Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1)

Matches: 6
Runs: 152
Wickets: 6

Mulpani Cricket Ground

Matches: 6
Runs: 63
Wickets: 9

Singapore National Cricket Ground

Matches: 6
Runs: 72
Wickets: 9

Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur

Matches: 5
Runs: 48
Wickets: 10

Selangor Turf Club

Matches: 5
Runs: 55
Wickets: 11

University of Doha for Science and Technology

Matches: 3
Runs: 19
Wickets: 1

Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 2)

Matches: 2
Runs: 8
Wickets: 1

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.