JA Thompson

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

JA Thompson — 108 career matches, 1,167 runs and 121 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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JATHOMPSON

Bat Avg

18.5

Bowl Avg

25.1

Career stats overview

108 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

108 matches

1,167

Runs scored

121

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 JA Thompson has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Lancashire

Matches: 12
Runs: 119
Wickets: 16

Derbyshire

Matches: 11
Runs: 222
Wickets: 12

Leicestershire

Matches: 9
Runs: 93
Wickets: 15

Nottinghamshire

Matches: 8
Runs: 99
Wickets: 8

Worcestershire

Matches: 8
Runs: 185
Wickets: 11

Durham

Matches: 7
Runs: 91
Wickets: 15

Birmingham Bears

Matches: 6
Runs: 56
Wickets: 11

Northamptonshire

Matches: 5
Runs: 138
Wickets: 7

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where JA Thompson has turned out most often.

Headingley, Leeds

Matches: 34
Runs: 539
Wickets: 56

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches: 8
Runs: 39
Wickets: 6

County Ground

Matches: 6
Runs: 144
Wickets: 6

Grace Road

Matches: 6
Runs: 83
Wickets: 8

Lord's, London

Matches: 6
Runs: 51
Wickets: 11

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 5
Runs: 57
Wickets: 6

Queen's Park

Matches: 5
Runs: 130
Wickets: 3

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches: 5
Runs: 44
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.