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AJ Pienaar
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
AJ Pienaar — 22 career matches, 266 runs and 3 wickets across all formats.
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AJPIENAAR
Bat Avg
20.5
Bowl Avg
33.3
Career stats overview
22 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
T20I
22 matches
266
Runs scored
3
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 AJ Pienaar has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Cape Cobras
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 89
- Wickets
- 1
Dolphins
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 57
- Wickets
- 1
Mi New York
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 23
Titans
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 66
Warriors
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 105
- Wickets
- 1
San Francisco Unicorns
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 74
Lions
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 9
Los Angeles Knight Riders
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 63
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where AJ Pienaar has turned out most often.
Grand Prairie Stadium, Texas
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 173
De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 73
SuperSport Park, Centurion
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 28
Chevrolet Park, Bloemfontein
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 69
Church Street Park, Morrisville
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 63
Kingsmead, Durban
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 55
- Wickets
- 1
Boland Park, Paarl
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 33
Oakland Coliseum
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 16
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.