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Sam Billings

India · Left-arm orthodox · Batter

Sam Billings is an English batter who has played for Kent, England Cricket, Sydney Thunder, Oval Invincibles and a string of other franchises across the globe. His primary competition is the T20 Blast, where he has made 130 appearances, but his 368-match career spans eight formats including the Big Bash League, PSL, IPL and ILT20. Career totals sit at 7,808 runs, a batting average of 25.77 and a strike rate of 130.26. His most recent appearances came in the 2026 PSL campaign, where he scored half-centuries against both Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans before a low return against Quetta Gladiators brought the sequence to a close.

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Sam Billings
Bat Avg
25.8

2026 Season Context

Current team & role

Delhi Capitals · Batter

Recent form

Billings registered scores of 58 and 56 not out in consecutive PSL outings in early April 2026, though those performances were bookended by low returns of 7 and 1 in his other two innings of that week

Strongest format

T20 Blast — With 130 matches and 2,684 runs at a strike rate of 136.59, the T20 Blast is Billings's most played and most productive competition in terms of volume

Career stats overview

22 ODI · 346 T20I appearances — spanning 2009 to present.

ODI

22 matches

690
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The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.

T20I

346 matches

7,118
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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

368 matches across eight major competitions

Sam Billings has played 368 career innings across the T20 Blast, Big Bash League, PSL, IPL, ILT20 and international cricket. That breadth of franchise experience, combined with 7,808 career runs, makes him one of the more widely-travelled English T20 specialists in the warehouse.

Strike rate above 136 in the T20 Blast

Across 130 T20 Blast appearances for Kent, Billings averages 25.81 at a strike rate of 136.59. His primary competition is also his most consistent in terms of volume, and the St Lawrence Ground returns underpin much of that record.

PSL his sharpest strike-rate format

In 32 PSL matches, Billings has struck at 145.55 with a batting average of 28.12. That combination of rate and average makes the PSL his most potent competition by run-scoring efficiency, even if the Blast accounts for the bulk of his career innings.

St Lawrence Ground: 1,385 runs at 34.63

At his Kent home ground, Billings has amassed 1,385 runs across 55 matches at an average of 34.63 and a strike rate of 145.94. Both figures sit well above his overall career averages of 25.77 and 130.26 respectively.

Two fifties in five PSL innings heading into April 2026

Billings scored 58 off 35 balls against Karachi Kings on 2 April 2026 and 56 not out off 34 balls against Multan Sultans on 6 April, showing he can produce big innings in the PSL even during a difficult team run for his side.

What’s next

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Official profile

Elsewhere on the web

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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.

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