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N Pooran

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

Nicholas Pooran is a West Indies international and one of T20 cricket's busiest franchise players, with 451 career appearances producing 12,056 runs at a batting average of 32.41 and a strike rate of 136.89. His primary competition is the Caribbean Premier League, where he has made 114 appearances, though his footprint spans the IPL, ILT20, Major League Cricket, the Bangladesh Premier League and beyond. In the most recent run of matches, covering SA20 in January 2026 and the early rounds of the 2026 IPL with Lucknow Super Giants, he has struggled to build on starts, with a top score of 33 in ten innings.

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Lucknow Super GiantsLucknow Super GiantsPunjab KingsPunjab KingsSunrisers HyderabadSunrisers Hyderabad
Bat Avg
32.4
Bowl Avg
29.0

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Lucknow Super Giants · All-Rounder

Recent form

Pooran's last ten innings, spread across SA20 in January 2026 and the IPL in April 2026, have produced a top score of 33 off 15 balls against Joburg Super Kings, with the majority of his knocks fallin

Strongest format

Caribbean Premier League — The CPL is Pooran's primary competition by volume, with 114 appearances and 2,835 runs at a strike rate of 148.51. His CPL record is the largest singl

Career stats overview

54 ODI · 397 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

54 matches

1,829
Runs scored
6
Wickets taken

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

T20I

397 matches

10,227
Runs scored
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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

12,000-run T20 globetrotter

Nicholas Pooran has accumulated 12,056 runs across 451 career matches, representing West Indies and franchises across the CPL, IPL, ILT20, MLC and BPL. His career strike rate of 136.89 reflects a consistent appetite for scoring quickly across multiple formats and continents.

IPL strike rate tops 165

In 90 IPL appearances, Pooran has scored 2,334 runs at a strike rate of 165.88, the highest of any competition he plays regularly. His batting average of 33.34 in the IPL also outpaces his CPL returns, suggesting he has found a particularly productive groove in that competition.

Providence Stadium is his happiest hunting ground

Across 28 matches at Providence Stadium in Guyana, Pooran averages 50.1 with a strike rate of 140.93, accumulating 1,002 runs. That average is comfortably his best at any venue where he has played more than five matches.

Barbados Royals bring out his best

Against Barbados Royals, Pooran averages 54 across 18 matches, scoring 594 runs at a strike rate of 139.76. That average is the highest he posts against any side he has faced on more than a handful of occasions.

Quiet start to 2026 IPL campaign

In four IPL outings between 1 April and 12 April 2026, Pooran's highest score was 19 off 21 balls against Gujarat Titans. Scores of 1, 8 and 13 in the other three games suggest he has yet to click in the current IPL season for Lucknow Super Giants.

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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.