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D Pretorius

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

D Pretorius — 173 career matches, 1,627 runs and 176 wickets across all formats.

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Runs
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
18.1
Bowl Avg
25.4

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Chennai Super Kings · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

26 ODI · 147 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

26 matches

192
Runs scored
35
Wickets taken

The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

147 matches

1,435
Runs scored
141
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Middle-overs choke

4.32
econ · ov 20–40

Suffocates partnerships without needing wickets.

In a chase

42.1
batting avg

Ten points above his career average when India chase.

Fielding impact

38
career run-outs

More than any Indian fielder of his era.

Best bowling

5/33
vs Sri Lanka

Colombo, 2024.

Career catches

102
outfield grabs

Top-five fielder of his generation.

ICC titles

3
white-ball

CT 2013, Asia Cup 2018, CT 2025.

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 D Pretorius has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Cape Cobras

Matches
12
Runs
131
Wickets
3

Titans

Matches
12
Runs
118
Wickets
10

Warriors

Matches
12
Runs
139
Wickets
8

England

Matches
8
Runs
138
Wickets
16

St Lucia Kings

Matches
8
Runs
104
Wickets
14

Knights

Matches
7
Runs
115
Wickets
6

Trinbago Knight Riders

Matches
7
Runs
119
Wickets
11

Australia

Matches
6
Runs
44
Wickets
10

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where D Pretorius has turned out most often.

Providence Stadium, Guyana

Matches
17
Runs
192
Wickets
32

New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Matches
17
Runs
331
Wickets
21

Kingsmead, Durban

Matches
16
Runs
162
Wickets
16

Newlands, Cape Town

Matches
14
Runs
140
Wickets
13

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Matches
11
Runs
189
Wickets
14

Senwes Park, Potchefstroom

Matches
9
Runs
137
Wickets
5

Boland Park, Paarl

Matches
7
Runs
140
Wickets
6

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
7
Runs
102
Wickets
10

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.