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AC Thomas

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

AC Thomas — 41 career matches, 60 runs and 46 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
Wickets
0
Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
20.0
Bowl Avg
24.8

Career stats overview

41 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

41 matches

60
Runs scored
46
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 AC Thomas has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Brisbane Heat

Matches
2
Runs
3
Wickets
2

Chittagong Kings

Matches
2
Runs
16
Wickets
7

Lions

Matches
2
Runs
13

Melbourne Stars

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
1

Surrey

Matches
2
Runs
22
Wickets
2

Sylhet Royals

Matches
2
Runs
9
Wickets
3

Barisal Burners

Matches
1
Runs
6
Wickets
3

Chennai Super Kings

Matches
1
Runs
1
Wickets
2

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where AC Thomas has turned out most often.

Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka

Matches
3
Runs
13
Wickets
12

Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune

Matches
2
Runs
19

Adelaide Oval

Matches
2
Runs
6
Wickets
6

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
2
Runs
28
Wickets
10

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
1

Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium

Matches
2
Runs
11
Wickets
2

The Cooper Associates County Ground

Matches
2
Runs
31
Wickets
13

Western Australia Cricket Association Ground

Matches
2
Runs
9
Wickets
8

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.