K Gowtham

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

K Gowtham — 62 career matches, 476 runs and 47 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

KGOWTHAM

Bat Avg

15.3

Bowl Avg

31.6

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Rajasthan Royals · All-Rounder

Career stats overview

62 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

62 matches

476

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 K Gowtham has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Chennai Super Kings

Matches: 5
Runs: 41

Delhi Capitals

Matches: 5
Runs: 52
Wickets: 2

Kolkata Knight Riders

Matches: 4
Runs: 35
Wickets: 6

Mumbai Indians

Matches: 4
Runs: 57
Wickets: 1

Punjab Kings

Matches: 4
Runs: 17
Wickets: 5

Punjab

Matches: 3
Runs: 56
Wickets: 2

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Matches: 2
Runs: 37
Wickets: 3

Services

Matches: 2
Runs: 30
Wickets: 2

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where K Gowtham has turned out most often.

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Matches: 8
Runs: 93
Wickets: 8

Dr P.V.G. Raju ACA Sports Complex

Matches: 4
Runs: 45
Wickets: 3

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Matches: 4
Runs: 53
Wickets: 4

BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow

Matches: 4
Runs: 31
Wickets: 2

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Matches: 3
Runs: 28

Alur Cricket Stadium

Matches: 2
Runs: 14
Wickets: 3

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Matches: 2
Runs: 24

Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati

Matches: 2
Runs: 9
Wickets: 7

Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

ESPNcricinfo

K Gowtham's profile

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.