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N Pooran
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
Nicholas Pooran is a West Indies international and one of T20 cricket's busiest franchise players, with 451 career appearances producing 12,056 runs at a batting average of 32.41 and a strike rate of 136.89. His primary competition is the Caribbean Premier League, where he has made 114 appearances, though his footprint spans the IPL, ILT20, Major League Cricket, the Bangladesh Premier League and beyond. In the most recent run of matches, covering SA20 in January 2026 and the early rounds of the 2026 IPL with Lucknow Super Giants, he has struggled to build on starts, with a top score of 33 in ten innings.
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Wickets
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NPOORAN
Bat Avg
32.4
Bowl Avg
29.0
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Lucknow Super Giants · All-Rounder
Recent form
Pooran's last ten innings, spread across SA20 in January 2026 and the IPL in April 2026, have produced a top score of 33 off 15 balls against Joburg Super Kings, with the majority of his knocks fallin
Strongest format
Caribbean Premier League — The CPL is Pooran's primary competition by volume, with 114 appearances and 2,835 runs at a strike rate of 148.51. His CPL record is the largest singl
Career stats overview
54 ODI · 397 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
54 matches
1,829
Runs scored
6
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
397 matches
10,227
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
12,000-run T20 globetrotter
Nicholas Pooran has accumulated 12,056 runs across 451 career matches, representing West Indies and franchises across the CPL, IPL, ILT20, MLC and BPL. His career strike rate of 136.89 reflects a consistent appetite for scoring quickly across multiple formats and continents.
IPL strike rate tops 165
In 90 IPL appearances, Pooran has scored 2,334 runs at a strike rate of 165.88, the highest of any competition he plays regularly. His batting average of 33.34 in the IPL also outpaces his CPL returns, suggesting he has found a particularly productive groove in that competition.
Providence Stadium is his happiest hunting ground
Across 28 matches at Providence Stadium in Guyana, Pooran averages 50.1 with a strike rate of 140.93, accumulating 1,002 runs. That average is comfortably his best at any venue where he has played more than five matches.
Barbados Royals bring out his best
Against Barbados Royals, Pooran averages 54 across 18 matches, scoring 594 runs at a strike rate of 139.76. That average is the highest he posts against any side he has faced on more than a handful of occasions.
Quiet start to 2026 IPL campaign
In four IPL outings between 1 April and 12 April 2026, Pooran's highest score was 19 off 21 balls against Gujarat Titans. Scores of 1, 8 and 13 in the other three games suggest he has yet to click in the current IPL season for Lucknow Super Giants.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams N Pooran has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
India
- Matches
- 32
- Runs
- 1,087
England
- Matches
- 21
- Runs
- 542
Guyana Amazon Warriors
- Matches
- 20
- Runs
- 403
Jamaica Tallawahs
- Matches
- 19
- Runs
- 297
Barbados Royals
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 594
St Kitts Patriots
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 640
Australia
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 243
South Africa
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 340
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where N Pooran has turned out most often.
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
- Matches
- 36
- Runs
- 914
Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
- Matches
- 30
- Runs
- 874
Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad
- Matches
- 29
- Runs
- 766
Providence Stadium, Guyana
- Matches
- 28
- Runs
- 1,002
- Wickets
- 2
Warner Park, Basseterre
- Matches
- 26
- Runs
- 615
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 25
- Runs
- 710
BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
- Matches
- 24
- Runs
- 440
Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain
- Matches
- 24
- Runs
- 702
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
N Pooran'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.