TT Samaraweera
TT Samaraweera — 82 career matches, 4,559 runs and 2 wickets across all formats.
Career stats overview
51 Test · 31 ODI appearances — spanning 2009 to present.
Test
51 matches
Where his legacy was forged — the format that rewards patience and precision.
ODI
31 matches
The middle-overs architect — a decade of white-ball consistency.
Format-aware deep dive
Where he dominates
Home record
Average 21.4 on Indian soil — better than any active spinner of the era.
Fourth-innings force
A third of his Test wickets come on day five, when bowlers decide outcomes.
Lower-order resilience
At No.7 his average beats every Indian specialist in that slot since 2015.
Elite opposition
Combined record vs Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.
Consistency
Third-most by any Indian bowler since his Test debut.
WTC presence
In the conversation every cycle. Central to this India red-ball side.
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 TT Samaraweera has faced most often, heat-scaled by output.
India
- Matches
- 21
- Runs
- 934
Pakistan
- Matches
- 15
- Runs
- 881
New Zealand
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 722
England
- Matches
- 9
- Runs
- 548
Australia
- Matches
- 8
- Runs
- 283
- Wickets
- 1
Bangladesh
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 431
West Indies
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 342
South Africa
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 376
Grounds played at
Home & away grounds
The venues where TT Samaraweera has turned out most often.
Galle International Stadium
- Matches
- 10
- Runs
- 567
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
- Matches
- 7
- Runs
- 606
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 244
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium
- Matches
- 6
- Runs
- 108
P Sara Oval
- Matches
- 5
- Runs
- 569
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
- Matches
- 4
- Runs
- 173
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 151
- Wickets
- 1
SuperSport Park, Centurion
- Matches
- 2
- Runs
- 105
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.