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Akshay Karnewar

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Akshay Karnewar — 44 career matches, 314 runs and 43 wickets across all formats.

Matches
0
Runs
0
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
13.1
Bowl Avg
19.1

Career stats overview

44 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

44 matches

314
Runs scored
43
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 Akshay Karnewar has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Rajasthan

Matches
4
Runs
31
Wickets
6

Chhattisgarh

Matches
2
Runs
11
Wickets
2

Karnataka

Matches
2
Runs
55

Kerala

Matches
2
Runs
36
Wickets
1

Madhya Pradesh

Matches
2
Runs
11
Wickets
2

Mumbai

Matches
2
Runs
19
Wickets
2

Tamil Nadu

Matches
2
Runs
15
Wickets
3

Uttar Pradesh

Matches
2
Runs
21
Wickets
2

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where Akshay Karnewar has turned out most often.

Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Int'l Stadium, Raipur

Matches
5
Runs
39
Wickets
3

Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore

Matches
4
Runs
33
Wickets
3

Emerald Heights International School Ground

Matches
3
Runs
43
Wickets
2

Gokaraju Liala Gangaaraju ACA Cricket Ground

Matches
2
Runs
37
Wickets
4

Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram

Matches
2
Runs
16
Wickets
4

Lalbhai Contractor Stadium

Matches
2
Runs
22
Wickets
3

St Xavier S Kca Cricket Ground

Matches
2
Runs
28
Wickets
2

Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur

Matches
2
Runs
35
Wickets
4

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.