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JL Denly

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

JL Denly — 194 career matches, 5,375 runs and 54 wickets across all formats.

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Runs
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Bat Avg
29.1
Bowl Avg
30.9

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Kolkata Knight Riders · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

15 Test · 14 ODI · 165 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

Test

15 matches

827
Runs scored
2
Wickets taken

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

ODI

14 matches

446
Runs scored
1
Wickets taken

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

T20I

165 matches

4,102
Runs scored
51
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.

What’s next

Upcoming matches

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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.