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NW Bracken

India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder

NW Bracken — 111 career matches, 183 runs and 166 wickets across all formats.

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Runs
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Explore Full Stats
Bat Avg
10.2
Bowl Avg
24.1

Career stats overview

100 ODI · 11 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

100 matches

174
Runs scored
154
Wickets taken

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

T20I

11 matches

9
Runs scored
12
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 NW Bracken has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.

South Africa

Matches
12
Runs
72
Wickets
27

India

Matches
7
Runs
20
Wickets
27

New Zealand

Matches
7
Runs
33
Wickets
22

Sri Lanka

Matches
5
Runs
32
Wickets
35

England

Matches
3
Runs
27
Wickets
28

Pakistan

Matches
3
Runs
6
Wickets
3

West Indies

Matches
1
Runs
3
Wickets
18

Zimbabwe

Matches
1
Runs
4
Wickets
1

Grounds played at

Home & away grounds

The venues where NW Bracken has turned out most often.

Sydney Cricket Ground

Matches
7
Runs
49
Wickets
21

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Matches
5
Runs
31
Wickets
18

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Matches
3
Runs
21
Wickets
2

The Gabba, Brisbane

Matches
3
Runs
14
Wickets
19

Western Australia Cricket Association Ground

Matches
3
Runs
6
Wickets
6

Adelaide Oval

Matches
2
Runs
13
Wickets
11

Newlands, Cape Town

Matches
2
Runs
14
Wickets
9

Bellerive Oval

Matches
1
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.