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Kevin O'Brien stats

Data through 29 July 2022Last updated 29 July 2022

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 13 June 2006 to 29 July 2022. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Kevin O'Brien played 2 Tests, 90 ODIs, 81 T20Is for Ireland in the data, between 2006 and 2022. The most runs came in ODIs: 1,990 at an average of 26.89 and a strike rate of 95.4, with a highest score of 113. With the ball, the best return was 52 wickets in ODIs at an average of 41.96 and an economy rate of 5.64. Against Pakistan in ODIs, Kevin O'Brien averaged 50.00 over 5 innings.

International matches

173

Tests 2 · ODIs 90 · T20Is 81

International runs

3,751

3 hundreds

International wickets

0 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

1,293 runs

Best batting average (ODI)

26.89

84 innings

Highest score

124

T20I

Teams played for

Ireland 2006–2021 · 191Leinster Lightning 2016–2021 · 38Leicestershire 2015–2016 · 22Trinbago Knight Riders 2013–2014 · 17Munster Reds 2022 · 11Surrey 2014 · 10Rangpur Riders 2013 · 9

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Kevin O'Brien batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	2	4	1	190	118	63.33	366	51.9	1	0	0	20	0
ODI	90	84	10	1,990	113	26.89	2,087	95.4	1	8	3	198	48
T20I	81	77	9	1,571	124	23.10	1,193	131.7	1	3	10	133	66
T20 (leagues & domestic)	74	68	12	1,293	90*	23.09	946	136.7	0	6	6	102	69
First-class	6	9	3	368	78*	61.33	475	77.5	0	3	0	33	10
List A	35	32	7	938	89*	37.52	980	95.7	0	7	3	90	24
Other T20	10	10	1	256	62*	28.44	205	124.9	0	1	0	13	8

Runs per year

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Kevin O'Brien: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2006	35
2007	204
2008	65
2009	73
2010	84
2011	302
2012	195
2013	778
2014	569
2015	493
2016	650
2017	564
2018	480
2019	879
2020	444
2021	524
2022	267

Year-by-year batting (56 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2006	ODI	1	35	35.00	72.9	35	0	0
2007	ODI	11	204	20.40	68.2	49	0	0
2008	ODI	2	48	48.00	70.6	38	0	0
2008	T20I	1	17	–	106.2	17	0	0
2009	ODI	1	4	4.00	30.8	4	0	0
2009	T20I	5	69	17.25	123.2	39	0	0
2010	ODI	4	65	21.67	52.0	43	0	0
2010	T20I	3	19	9.50	86.4	10	0	0
2011	ODI	9	302	37.75	134.8	113	1	0
2012	ODI	2	58	29.00	61.1	39	0	0
2012	T20I	8	137	22.83	105.4	35	0	0
2013	First-class	1	45	45.00	118.4	45	0	0
2013	List A	2	43	43.00	64.2	25	0	0
2013	ODI	5	180	45.00	120.8	84	0	1
2013	Other T20	6	200	40.00	129.9	62	0	1
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	279	21.46	124.0	70	0	1
2013	T20I	1	31	31.00	134.8	31	0	0
2014	First-class	1	17	17.00	43.6	17	0	0
2014	ODI	5	181	45.25	88.7	67	0	2
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	294	29.40	138.7	90	0	2
2014	T20I	5	77	25.67	171.1	42	0	0
2015	First-class	1	45	–	81.8	45	0	0
2015	ODI	10	175	17.50	90.7	50	0	1
2015	Other T20	3	34	11.33	117.2	23	0	0
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	160	26.67	139.1	48	0	0
2015	T20I	5	79	19.75	131.7	36	0	0
2016	First-class	2	94	94.00	55.3	75	0	1
2016	List A	5	292	73.00	108.6	89	0	3
2016	ODI	4	80	20.00	98.8	41	0	0
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	115	16.43	111.7	29	0	0
2016	T20I	5	69	13.80	101.5	32	0	0
2017	First-class	4	167	55.67	96.5	78	0	2
2017	List A	4	166	55.33	125.8	75	0	2
2017	ODI	5	102	20.40	120.0	69	0	1
2017	Other T20	1	22	22.00	100.0	22	0	0
2017	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	37	9.25	137.0	19	0	0
2017	T20I	2	70	35.00	142.9	40	0	0
2018	List A	3	13	4.33	46.4	6	0	0
2018	ODI	9	245	35.00	137.6	50	0	1
2018	T20I	6	64	12.80	133.3	28	0	0
2018	Test	2	158	79.00	55.4	118	1	0
2019	List A	3	57	57.00	116.3	47	0	0
2019	ODI	7	184	30.67	102.2	68	0	2
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	56	28.00	155.6	56	0	1
2019	T20I	19	550	28.95	160.8	124	1	1
2019	Test	2	32	32.00	39.5	28	0	0
2020	List A	4	106	26.50	83.5	51	0	1
2020	ODI	6	102	20.40	87.2	31	0	0
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	148	49.33	182.7	82	0	1
2020	T20I	3	88	29.33	154.4	48	0	0
2021	List A	6	128	25.60	82.6	39	0	0
2021	ODI	3	25	8.33	89.3	23	0	0
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	70	10.00	82.4	23	0	0
2021	T20I	14	301	21.50	108.7	60	0	2
2022	List A	5	133	33.25	86.9	66	0	1
2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	134	33.50	216.1	64	0	1

Kevin O'Brien bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	Mdns
Test	1	36	20	0	–	–	–	3.33	–	0	1
ODI	67	2,320	2,182	52	4/13	–	41.96	5.64	44.6	3	14
T20I	34	599	710	44	3/8	–	16.14	7.11	13.6	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	39	645	799	40	4/22	–	19.98	7.43	16.1	1	1
First-class	10	378	190	8	3/14	4/26	23.75	3.02	47.2	0	15
List A	13	493	394	17	3/34	–	23.18	4.80	29.0	0	2
Other T20	6	72	82	5	2/21	–	16.40	6.83	14.4	0	0

Wickets per year

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Kevin O'Brien: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2006	1
2007	3
2008	2
2009	1
2010	11
2011	5
2012	7
2013	23
2014	20
2015	27
2016	24
2017	19
2018	22
2019	0
2020	0
2021	1
2022	0

Year-by-year bowling (45 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2006	ODI	1	1	47.00	4.70	1/47
2007	ODI	8	3	46.67	5.83	1/8
2008	ODI	1	0	–	6.14	0/43
2008	T20I	1	2	7.50	3.75	2/15
2009	ODI	2	1	62.00	4.77	1/40
2009	T20I	3	0	–	8.14	0/9
2010	ODI	5	8	19.62	4.24	3/43
2010	T20I	3	3	13.67	6.31	2/22
2011	ODI	7	5	29.60	5.69	4/71
2012	ODI	1	0	–	10.00	0/10
2012	T20I	4	7	12.71	6.85	3/35
2013	First-class	2	2	20.50	2.56	2/29
2013	ODI	5	7	22.00	5.50	4/13
2013	Other T20	3	2	25.00	7.14	1/18
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	12	18.50	6.53	3/17
2013	T20I	1	0	–	11.00	0/22
2014	First-class	1	0	–	6.33	0/19
2014	ODI	5	2	41.50	3.95	1/10
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	11	18.82	8.28	4/22
2014	T20I	5	7	15.00	6.56	2/17
2015	First-class	2	1	30.00	3.00	1/21
2015	ODI	10	9	57.78	7.11	2/46
2015	Other T20	2	1	11.00	5.50	1/2
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	6	5	22.60	7.53	2/20
2015	T20I	5	11	7.82	5.06	3/8
2016	First-class	2	1	41.00	4.10	1/24
2016	List A	6	7	32.29	5.79	2/32
2016	ODI	4	2	117.00	7.09	2/66
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	7	25.14	7.82	3/27
2016	T20I	6	7	19.14	7.88	3/14
2017	First-class	3	4	14.75	2.46	3/14
2017	List A	2	3	18.33	4.23	2/24
2017	ODI	5	2	78.00	5.35	1/22
2017	Other T20	1	2	10.50	7.00	2/21
2017	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	5	14.40	7.20	2/14
2017	T20I	2	3	20.33	8.71	2/24
2018	List A	4	7	13.00	3.77	3/34
2018	ODI	8	11	31.00	5.38	4/41
2018	T20I	3	4	21.25	10.62	3/40
2018	Test	1	0	–	3.33	0/20
2019	List A	1	0	–	3.67	0/22
2019	ODI	4	0	–	3.82	0/7
2021	ODI	1	1	22.00	5.50	1/22
2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	9.00	0/9
2021	T20I	1	0	–	6.43	0/15

Kevin O'Brien against each team

vs West Indies vs Zimbabwe vs Scotland vs Netherlands vs England vs United Arab Emirates

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
West Indies	ODI	11	294	26.73	91.6	68	0	2
Scotland	ODI	9	290	48.33	112.4	67	0	2
England	ODI	12	285	25.91	108.4	113	1	0
United Arab Emirates	ODI	7	227	37.83	143.7	69	0	3
Zimbabwe	ODI	10	156	17.33	69.0	38	0	0
Pakistan	ODI	5	150	50.00	90.9	84	0	1
Canada	ODI	4	124	41.33	100.0	43	0	0
South Africa	ODI	4	114	28.50	86.4	48	0	0
Bangladesh	ODI	5	112	22.40	85.5	48	0	0
Netherlands	ODI	3	47	23.50	134.3	32	0	0
Australia	ODI	3	44	14.67	55.7	23	0	0
Sri Lanka	ODI	3	14	4.67	100.0	12	0	0
India	ODI	3	13	4.33	50.0	9	0	0
Netherlands	T20I	12	254	25.40	149.4	46	0	0
Scotland	T20I	8	209	34.83	150.4	65	0	1
Zimbabwe	T20I	8	206	25.75	123.4	60	0	1
United Arab Emirates	T20I	7	189	27.00	110.5	54	0	1
Hong Kong	T20I	4	161	40.25	167.7	124	1	0
West Indies	T20I	7	128	21.33	121.9	48	0	0
Oman	T20I	4	113	28.25	161.4	41	0	0
Kenya	T20I	4	60	30.00	92.3	30	0	0
India	T20I	3	12	4.00	109.1	10	0	0
South Africa	T20I	3	2	0.67	25.0	2	0	0
North-West Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	168	24.00	158.5	82	0	1
Munster Reds	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	114	28.50	131.0	56	0	1
St Lucia Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	101	50.50	117.4	55	0	1
Antigua Hawksbills	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	99	49.50	162.3	90	0	1
Guyana Amazon Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	90	22.50	147.5	70	0	1
Leinster Lightning	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	83	41.50	224.3	64	0	1
Northern Knights	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	80	11.43	131.1	19	0	0
Durham	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	76	38.00	126.7	48	0	0
Jamaica Tallawahs	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	56	14.00	116.7	32	0	0
Northamptonshire	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	55	18.33	122.2	29	0	0
Scotland	First-class	3	141	70.50	91.0	78	0	1
Northern Knights	List A	12	336	33.60	103.4	89	0	2
North-West Warriors	List A	9	229	32.71	84.8	75	0	3
Namibia	Other T20	3	53	17.67	106.0	28	0	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
United Arab Emirates	ODI	5	9	18.67	4.94	4/41
Zimbabwe	ODI	8	7	36.00	4.82	2/46
Canada	ODI	4	5	14.80	3.52	2/21
West Indies	ODI	6	5	49.80	7.55	4/71
Scotland	ODI	10	4	76.00	5.12	1/32
Pakistan	ODI	5	4	54.25	5.86	2/43
Netherlands	ODI	3	4	15.50	3.44	4/13
South Africa	ODI	3	3	58.67	9.26	2/66
England	ODI	7	2	117.00	6.16	1/26
Bangladesh	ODI	4	2	39.50	5.21	1/22
Sri Lanka	ODI	3	1	95.00	8.64	1/10
India	ODI	3	0	–	5.92	0/3
Netherlands	T20I	5	7	13.29	7.15	3/26
United Arab Emirates	T20I	3	6	11.33	5.67	3/14
Scotland	T20I	4	6	13.17	7.52	3/35
India	T20I	3	4	23.25	10.33	3/40
West Indies	T20I	3	3	13.67	5.86	2/17
Durham	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	4	14.25	6.33	2/20
North-West Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	3	16.00	6.86	2/14
Derbyshire	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	2	37.50	9.38	1/27
Northamptonshire	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	0	–	8.67	0/12
Scotland	First-class	4	6	11.17	2.39	3/14
North-West Warriors	List A	4	6	16.17	4.38	3/34
Northern Knights	List A	3	4	18.75	3.57	2/21

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
The Village	22	608	28.95	118
Pembroke Cricket Club	16	396	30.46	82
Bready Cricket Club	15	325	25.00	58
Al Amerat Cricket Ground Oman Cricket (Ministry Turf 1)	7	321	45.86	124
Zayed Cricket Stadium	16	318	21.20	62
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	11	274	34.25	78
Grace Road	10	271	30.11	89
Clontarf Cricket Club Ground	9	266	38.00	84
Civil Service Cricket Club	18	248	17.71	89
ICC Academy	7	204	34.00	54

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Dubai International Cricket Stadium	8	13	13.69	5.16
Civil Service Cricket Club	13	12	23.33	4.24
Grace Road	11	11	27.45	7.11
The Village	14	11	39.73	6.07
Zayed Cricket Stadium	7	8	16.12	6.45
Shere Bangla National Stadium	7	8	20.38	7.09
ICC Academy	4	8	23.50	4.78
Clontarf Cricket Club Ground	9	8	28.38	4.83
VRA Ground	2	6	5.67	2.27
Sabina Park	7	6	18.50	5.05

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	1124	895	125.6	54	228	16	8.00
T20	Middle	1258	955	131.7	44	746	45	6.43
T20	Death	482	289	166.8	26	270	23	9.00
ODI	Powerplay	63	93	67.7	4	240	4	3.75
ODI	Middle	1447	1669	86.7	52	1638	27	5.06
ODI	Death	480	325	147.7	18	442	21	8.84

How Kevin O'Brien was dismissed

Caught161 (67%)
Bowled41 (17%)
Lbw16 (7%)
Run out11 (5%)
Caught and bowled8 (3%)
Stumped4 (2%)

How Kevin O'Brien took wickets

Caught108
Bowled30
Lbw17
Caught and bowled10
Stumped1

Last 20 innings

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Kevin O'Brien: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
2 Sep 2021	47
4 Sep 2021	7
19 Sep 2021	23
7 Oct 2021	46
8 Oct 2021	12
10 Oct 2021	54
18 Oct 2021	9
20 Oct 2021	5
22 Oct 2021	25
5 May 2022	3
10 May 2022	37
19 May 2022	18
24 May 2022	66
27 May 2022	64
28 May 2022	7
29 May 2022	26
7 Jun 2022	9
10 Jun 2022	12
27 Jul 2022	7
29 Jul 2022	18

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
29 Jul 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	North-West Warriors	18*	5	not out	Pembroke Cricket Club
27 Jul 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Leinster Lightning	7	6	caught	Pembroke Cricket Club
10 Jun 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Leinster Lightning	12	4	caught	Bready Cricket Club
7 Jun 2022	List A	Leinster Lightning	9*	4	not out	Mardyke
29 May 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	North-West Warriors	26	14	bowled	The Green
28 May 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Northern Knights	7	6	bowled	The Green
27 May 2022	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Leinster Lightning	64*	27	not out	The Green
24 May 2022	List A	Northern Knights	66	75	caught	Mardyke
19 May 2022	List A	North-West Warriors	18	25	bowled	Mardyke
10 May 2022	List A	Leinster Lightning	37	39	caught	Pembroke Cricket Club
5 May 2022	List A	Northern Knights	3	10	caught	Civil Service Cricket Club
22 Oct 2021	T20I	Namibia	25	24	caught	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
20 Oct 2021	T20I	Sri Lanka	5	3	caught	Zayed Cricket Stadium
18 Oct 2021	T20I	Netherlands	9	10	caught	Zayed Cricket Stadium
10 Oct 2021	T20I	United Arab Emirates	54	45	bowled	ICC Academy
8 Oct 2021	T20I	United Arab Emirates	12	12	caught	ICC Academy
7 Oct 2021	T20I	United Arab Emirates	46	44	caught	ICC Academy
19 Sep 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	North-West Warriors	23	24	caught	The Green
4 Sep 2021	T20I	Zimbabwe	7	9	bowled	Bready Cricket Club
2 Sep 2021	T20I	Zimbabwe	47	39	caught	Bready Cricket Club

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
22 Oct 2021	T20I	Namibia	0/15	2.2	0	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
19 Sep 2021	T20 (leagues & domestic)	North-West Warriors	0/9	1	0	The Green
18 Jan 2021	ODI	United Arab Emirates	1/22	4	1	Zayed Cricket Stadium
7 Jul 2019	ODI	Zimbabwe	0/25	8	0	Civil Service Cricket Club
4 Jul 2019	ODI	Zimbabwe	0/23	6	0	Civil Service Cricket Club
5 May 2019	ODI	West Indies	0/10	1	0	Castle Avenue
3 May 2019	ODI	England	0/7	2	0	The Village
25 Apr 2019	List A	Northern Knights	0/22	6	0	La Manga Club Top Ground
9 Sep 2018	List A	North-West Warriors	3/34	5.1	1	Observatory Lane
29 Jun 2018	T20I	India	3/40	4	0	The Village
27 Jun 2018	T20I	India	1/36	3	0	The Village
19 Jun 2018	List A	North-West Warriors	0/8	4	0	Woodvale Road
12 Jun 2018	T20I	Netherlands	0/9	1	0	Hazelaarweg
4 Jun 2018	List A	Northern Knights	2/21	8	0	The Vineyard
11 May 2018	Test	Pakistan	0/20	6	1	The Village
18 Mar 2018	ODI	Scotland	0/12	1	0	Harare Sports Club
16 Mar 2018	ODI	Zimbabwe	1/22	8	1	Harare Sports Club
10 Mar 2018	ODI	West Indies	0/66	8	0	Harare Sports Club
6 Mar 2018	ODI	Papua New Guinea	2/53	7	0	Harare Sports Club
4 Mar 2018	List A	Netherlands	2/28	7	0	Old Hararians Sports Club

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Kevin O'Brien scored in Tests?

190 runs in 4 innings (2 matches) at an average of 63.33 and a strike rate of 51.9, in the data from 2018 to 2019.

How many runs has Kevin O'Brien scored in ODIs?

1,990 runs in 84 innings (90 matches) at an average of 26.89 and a strike rate of 95.4, in the data from 2006 to 2021.

How many runs has Kevin O'Brien scored in T20Is?

1,571 runs in 77 innings (81 matches) at an average of 23.10 and a strike rate of 131.7, in the data from 2008 to 2021.

What is Kevin O'Brien's highest score?

124 in T20Is, the highest score in the data.

How many wickets has Kevin O'Brien taken in ODIs?

52 wickets in 67 innings at an average of 41.96, economy 5.64, best figures 4/13.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.