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NJ O'Brien
India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter
NJ O'Brien — 110 career matches, 2,510 runs and 0 wickets across all formats.
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NJO'BRIEN
Bat Avg
26.1
Career stats overview
63 ODI · 47 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
63 matches
1,692
Runs scored
0
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
47 matches
818
Runs scored
0
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 NJ O'Brien has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
England
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 193
Uae
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 123
Scotland
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 318
West Indies
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 199
Pakistan
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 152
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 153
Zimbabwe
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 64
Australia
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 91
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where NJ O'Brien has turned out most often.
Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 244
Grace Road
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 184
Clontarf Cricket Club Ground
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 167
The Village, Malahide
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 208
Harare Sports Club
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 164
County Ground
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 76
Providence Stadium, Guyana
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 133
Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 130
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.