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Roelof van der Merwe
India · Left-arm orthodox · All-rounder
Roelof van der Merwe — 254 career matches, 2,075 runs and 236 wickets across all formats.
Runs
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Bat Avg
18.9
Bowl Avg
28.2
2026 Season Context
Current team & role
Royal Challengers Bangalore · All-Rounder
Career stats overview
38 ODI · 216 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
ODI
38 matches
267
Runs scored
44
Wickets taken
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
T20I
216 matches
1,808
Runs scored
192
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 RE van der Merwe has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
Gloucestershire
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 166
- Wickets
- 17
Surrey
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 116
- Wickets
- 14
Kent
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 82
- Wickets
- 10
Lions
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 74
- Wickets
- 9
Scotland
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 118
- Wickets
- 19
Hampshire
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 85
- Wickets
- 9
Middlesex
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 68
- Wickets
- 7
Oman
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 53
- Wickets
- 12
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where RE van der Merwe has turned out most often.
The Cooper Associates County Ground
- Matches
- 27
- Runs
- 270
- Wickets
- 32
SuperSport Park, Centurion
- Matches
- 15
- Runs
- 258
- Wickets
- 25
County Ground
- Matches
- 14
- Runs
- 310
- Wickets
- 17
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
- Matches
- 12
- Runs
- 118
- Wickets
- 16
Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1)
- Matches
- 11
- Runs
- 99
- Wickets
- 17
The Oval, London
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 66
- Wickets
- 15
Edgbaston, Birmingham
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 54
- Wickets
- 8
Lord's, London
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 73
- Wickets
- 7
Official profile
Elsewhere on the web
ESPNcricinfo
RE van der Merwe's profile
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.
Photo credits (1)
- Roelof van der Merwe — photo by Ytfc23, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source