Yousuf Youhana
Yousuf Youhana — 162 career matches, 7,360 runs and 1 wickets across all formats.
Career stats overview
33 Test · 129 ODI appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
33 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
129 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
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 Yousuf Youhana has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
India
- Matches
- 33
- Runs
- 1,353
England
- Matches
- 27
- Runs
- 1,410
South Africa
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 1,101
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 709
Australia
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 525
New Zealand
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 477
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 484
West Indies
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 733
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where Yousuf Youhana has turned out most often.
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 912
National Stadium
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 531
Multan Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 390
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 294
Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 505
Lord's, London
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 405
SuperSport Park, Centurion
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 197
Newlands, Cape Town
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 172
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.