Imam-ul-Haq
Imam-ul-Haq — 116 career matches, 5,083 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.
Career stats overview
26 Test · 68 ODI · 22 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
26 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
68 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
22 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
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 Imam-ul-Haq has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Australia
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 1,088
New Zealand
- Matches
- 16
- Runs
- 554
South Africa
- Matches
- 15
- Runs
- 727
England
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 627
Sri Lanka
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 365
Zimbabwe
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 506
India
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 74
Islamabad United
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 105
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where Imam-ul-Haq has turned out most often.
National Stadium
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 343
Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 378
Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 672
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 260
Sharjah Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 190
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 550
National Stadium, Karachi
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 343
Multan Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 264
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.