Matches
0
CV Varun
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
CV Varun — 128 career matches, 29 runs and 173 wickets across all formats.
Runs
0
Wickets
0
CVVARUN
Bat Avg
4.8
Bowl Avg
21.3
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Kolkata Knight Riders · All-Rounder
Career stats overview
128 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
T20I
128 matches
29
Runs scored
173
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 CV Varun has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Chennai Super Kings
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 13
Delhi Capitals
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 3
- Wickets
- 19
Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 19
- Wickets
- 15
Australia
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 7
England
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 16
South Africa
- Matches
- 2
- Wickets
- 23
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 1
- Wickets
- 7
Delhi
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 2
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where CV Varun has turned out most often.
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 3
- Wickets
- 9
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 2
- Wickets
- 1
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
- Matches
- 2
- Wickets
- 34
Sharjah Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 9
- Wickets
- 5
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
- Matches
- 2
- Wickets
- 11
Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 5
Carrara Oval
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 1
- Wickets
- 1
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
- Matches
- 1
- Runs
- 2
- Wickets
- 11
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
CV Varun'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.