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DJ Mitchell

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

DJ Mitchell — 246 career matches, 8,814 runs and 84 wickets across all formats.

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Bat Avg
41.0
Bowl Avg
26.3

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Chennai Super Kings · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

34 Test · 54 ODI · 158 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

34 matches

2,175
Runs scored
4
Wickets taken

Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.

ODI

54 matches

2,689
Runs scored
14
Wickets taken

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

T20I

158 matches

3,950
Runs scored
66
Wickets taken

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

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Home record

215
wickets

Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.

Fourth-innings force

112
wickets

A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.

Lower-order resilience

38.4
batting avg

At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.

Elite opposition

198
wkts in 48 M

Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

Consistency

14
five-wicket hauls

Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.

WTC presence

2
finals played

In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.

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 DJ Mitchell has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

India

Matches
35
Runs
1,349
Wickets
11

Pakistan

Matches
32
Runs
1,207
Wickets
2

England

Matches
28
Runs
1,483
Wickets
3

Sri Lanka

Matches
19
Runs
669
Wickets
6

West Indies

Matches
15
Runs
502
Wickets
2

Bangladesh

Matches
11
Runs
418
Wickets
1

Central Districts

Matches
10
Runs
396
Wickets
7

South Africa

Matches
10
Runs
301

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where DJ Mitchell has turned out most often.

Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Matches
23
Runs
1,216
Wickets
11

Seddon Park, Hamilton

Matches
20
Runs
586
Wickets
20

Bay Oval

Matches
19
Runs
570
Wickets
3

Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

Matches
15
Runs
414
Wickets
6

Basin Reserve, Wellington

Matches
14
Runs
543
Wickets
4

Eden Park, Auckland

Matches
14
Runs
444
Wickets
6

National Stadium, Karachi

Matches
11
Runs
350
Wickets
1

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Matches
8
Runs
246
Wickets
1

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.