DJ Malan
DJ Malan is a batter who has represented England Cricket, Middlesex, Yorkshire and a range of franchise sides across T20 and international cricket. Across 335 career matches he has scored 10,887 runs at an average of 35.58 and a strike rate of 105.65. His primary competition is the T20 Blast, where he has appeared 116 times, and his international record covers T20Is, ODIs and Tests for England. On current form, he has been playing BPL cricket in Bangladesh through December 2025 and January 2026, with three substantial innings in his last ten outings.
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Punjab Kings · All-Rounder
Recent form
Malan's last ten matches, all in the BPL, include three substantial innings: 78 off 49 balls against Dhaka Capitals on 17 January 2026, 63 not out off 50 balls against Rajshahi Warriors on 1 January 2
Strongest format
T20 Blast — With 116 matches, 3,392 runs and a strike rate of 140.34, the T20 Blast is where Malan has played the most and hit the quickest. His Blast strike rate
Career stats overview
22 Test · 29 ODI · 284 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
22 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
29 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
284 matches
Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
Career threads
Beyond the numbers
10,887 career runs across 335 matches
Malan has accumulated 10,887 runs from 335 appearances at a career average of 35.58 and a strike rate of 105.65. That workload spans domestic T20 cricket, international fixtures and franchise leagues across multiple continents.
T20 Blast record: 3,392 runs at a strike rate of 140.34
His primary competition is the T20 Blast, where he has played 116 matches and scored 3,392 runs at 140.34. That strike rate is comfortably above his overall career mark, making the Blast the format where he hits hardest.
ODI average of 56.72 across 29 matches
In 29 One-Day Internationals, Malan has averaged 56.72 with 1,418 runs. That average is his highest across any competition and points to a strong record in the 50-over format for England.
Headingley: 1,404 runs at an average of 39 across 38 matches
Headingley is Malan's most prolific venue by runs, with 1,404 across 38 appearances at an average of 39. It is also where he has spent the most time, reflecting his long association with Yorkshire.
Strong BPL form heading into 2026
Across his last ten outings, all in the Bangladesh Premier League, Malan posted scores of 51, 63 not out and 78 in three separate innings. Two of those came at Sher-e-Bangla, where he averages 36.86 from 33 matches.
Head-to-head
Vs opponents
Career totals broken down by the teams DJ Malan has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Australia
- Matches
- 23
- Runs
- 1,117
- Wickets
- 2
New Zealand
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 815
- Wickets
- 1
Pakistan
- Matches
- 18
- Runs
- 436
South Africa
- Matches
- 15
- Runs
- 580
India
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 481
Surrey
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 319
- Wickets
- 1
Birmingham Bears
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 349
Hampshire
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 215
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where DJ Malan has turned out most often.
Headingley, Leeds
- Matches
- 38
- Runs
- 1,404
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
- Matches
- 33
- Runs
- 1,069
- Wickets
- 1
Lord's, London
- Matches
- 25
- Runs
- 676
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
- Matches
- 17
- Runs
- 551
County Ground
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 401
- Wickets
- 1
The Oval, London
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 504
- Wickets
- 1
The Rose Bowl, Southampton
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 369
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 191
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.