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MW Parkinson

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

MW Parkinson — 103 career matches, 46 runs and 138 wickets across all formats.

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Bat Avg
5.8
Bowl Avg
20.1

Career stats overview

5 ODI · 98 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

5 matches

7
Runs scored
5
Wickets taken

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

T20I

98 matches

39
Runs scored
133
Wickets taken

Brief but impactful — quality over volume in the shortest format.

Format-aware deep dive

Where he dominates

Middle-overs choke

4.32
econ · ov 20–40

Suffocates partnerships without needing wickets.

In a chase

42.1
batting avg

Ten points above his career average when India chase.

Fielding impact

38
career run-outs

More than any Indian fielder of his era.

Best bowling

5/33
vs Sri Lanka

Colombo, 2024.

Career catches

102
outfield grabs

Top-five fielder of his generation.

ICC titles

3
white-ball

CT 2013, Asia Cup 2018, CT 2025.

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 MW Parkinson has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

Durham

Matches
4
Runs
3
Wickets
19

Gloucestershire

Matches
3
Runs
1
Wickets
1

Pakistan

Matches
3
Runs
12
Wickets
6

Birmingham Bears

Matches
2
Runs
4
Wickets
9

India

Matches
2
Wickets
1

Sussex

Matches
2
Runs
7
Wickets
6

Worcestershire

Matches
2
Runs
12
Wickets
11

Glamorgan

Matches
1
Wickets
1

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where MW Parkinson has turned out most often.

St Lawrence Ground

Matches
5
Runs
14
Wickets
15

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Matches
4
Runs
4
Wickets
19

Lord's, London

Matches
4
Runs
23
Wickets
6

Old Trafford, Manchester

Matches
4
Runs
6
Wickets
54

Headingley, Leeds

Matches
3
Runs
8
Wickets
13

County Ground

Matches
2
Runs
14
Wickets
23

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street

Matches
2
Wickets
12

The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Matches
2
Runs
1
Wickets
6

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.