EG Barnard

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

EG Barnard — 128 career matches, 1,236 runs and 66 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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EGBARNARD

Bat Avg

17.7

Bowl Avg

39.9

Career stats overview

128 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

128 matches

1,236

Runs scored

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

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

winner's medal

Barbados. Worth the seventeen-year wait.

Outfield

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 EG Barnard has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Nottinghamshire

Matches: 17
Runs: 280
Wickets: 4

Lancashire

Matches: 12
Runs: 151
Wickets: 7

Northamptonshire

Matches: 12
Runs: 155
Wickets: 7

Derbyshire

Matches: 10
Runs: 102
Wickets: 9

Yorkshire

Matches: 10
Runs: 133
Wickets: 4

Durham

Matches: 8
Runs: 135
Wickets: 4

Leicestershire

Matches: 8
Runs: 144
Wickets: 8

Birmingham Bears

Matches: 5
Runs: 33
Wickets: 10

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where EG Barnard has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 42
Runs: 464
Wickets: 40

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 21
Runs: 286
Wickets: 13

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches: 9
Runs: 150
Wickets: 2

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 7
Runs: 47
Wickets: 3

Headingley, Leeds

Matches: 6
Runs: 100
Wickets: 3

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches: 6
Runs: 98
Wickets: 1

Grace Road

Matches: 4
Runs: 76
Wickets: 2

The Cooper Associates County Ground

Matches: 1
Runs: 15
Wickets: 2

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.