MJJ Critchley

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

MJJ Critchley — 143 career matches, 1,992 runs and 124 wickets across all formats.

Matches

Runs

Wickets

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MJJCRITCHLEY

Bat Avg

20.8

Bowl Avg

25.7

Career stats overview

143 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

T20I

143 matches

1,992

Runs scored

124

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 MJJ Critchley has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Yorkshire

Matches: 10
Runs: 131
Wickets: 3

Hampshire

Matches: 9
Runs: 108
Wickets: 16

Lancashire

Matches: 9
Runs: 152
Wickets: 8

Nottinghamshire

Matches: 9
Runs: 173
Wickets: 6

Kent

Matches: 8
Runs: 192
Wickets: 7

Somerset

Matches: 8
Runs: 172
Wickets: 6

Glamorgan

Matches: 7
Runs: 87
Wickets: 9

Leicestershire

Matches: 7
Runs: 192
Wickets: 12

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where MJJ Critchley has turned out most often.

County Ground

Matches: 51
Runs: 771
Wickets: 70

Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Matches: 9
Runs: 153
Wickets: 9

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches: 8
Runs: 73
Wickets: 3

Headingley, Leeds

Matches: 8
Runs: 95
Wickets: 5

Lord's, London

Matches: 7
Runs: 42
Wickets: 2

Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Matches: 7
Runs: 207
Wickets: 3

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches: 6
Runs: 84
Wickets: 6

The Oval, London

Matches: 5
Runs: 59
Wickets: 1

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.