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Roelof van der Merwe

Netherlands · All-Rounder

Roelof van der Merwe: 254 career matches, 2,075 runs and 236 wickets across all formats.

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Roelof van der Merwe
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.

What’s next

Upcoming matches

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Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

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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.

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