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Murali Vijay stats

Data through 25 September 2020Last updated 25 September 2020

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 6 November 2008 to 25 September 2020. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Murali Vijay played 60 Tests, 17 ODIs, 8 T20Is for India in the data, between 2008 and 2020. In Tests Murali Vijay scored 3,877 runs in 104 innings (average 37.64, strike rate 45.9), including 11 hundreds and 15 fifties. Against Sri Lanka in Tests, Murali Vijay averaged 62.22 over 9 innings.

International matches

Tests 60 · ODIs 17 · T20Is 8

International runs

4,337

11 hundreds

T20 league & domestic matches

116

3,007 runs

Best batting average (Test)

37.64

104 innings

Highest score

167

Test

Teams played for

India 2008–2018 · 85Chennai Super Kings 2009–2020 · 70Punjab Kings 2015–2016 · 25Delhi Capitals 2014 · 11Tamil Nadu 2019 · 10Somerset 2019 · 3Essex 2018 · 2

BattingBowling

Murali Vijay batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	60	104	1	3,877	167	37.64	8,448	45.9	11	15	8	452	32
ODI	17	16	0	339	72	21.19	506	67.0	0	1	0	33	3
T20I	8	8	0	121	46	15.12	108	112.0	0	0	1	11	5
T20 (leagues & domestic)	116	115	5	3,007	127	27.34	2,425	124.0	3	16	5	285	105
First-class	5	8	0	283	100	35.38	511	55.4	1	2	2	45	1

Runs per year

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Murali Vijay: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2008	74
2009	147
2010	1,072
2011	538
2012	336
2013	1,016
2014	1,059
2015	906
2016	1,003
2017	520
2018	430
2019	494
2020	32

Year-by-year batting (30 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2008	Test	2	74	37.00	55.2	41	0	0
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	60	15.00	89.6	31	0	0
2009	Test	1	87	87.00	71.9	87	0	1
2010	ODI	8	178	22.25	65.0	33	0	0
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	458	35.23	156.8	127	1	2
2010	T20I	5	60	12.00	90.9	46	0	0
2010	Test	11	376	34.18	46.8	139	1	1
2011	ODI	3	18	6.00	41.9	16	0	0
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	434	27.12	128.0	95	0	3
2011	T20I	1	14	14.00	116.7	14	0	0
2011	Test	6	72	12.00	36.4	45	0	0
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	336	25.85	125.8	113	1	0
2013	ODI	2	57	28.50	89.1	30	0	0
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	312	22.29	109.1	55	0	2
2013	Test	13	647	49.77	47.0	167	2	2
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	207	18.82	107.8	52	0	1
2014	Test	20	852	42.60	44.8	146	2	5
2015	ODI	3	86	28.67	68.8	72	0	1
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	251	22.82	110.1	39	0	0
2015	T20I	2	47	23.50	156.7	34	0	0
2015	Test	12	522	47.45	49.1	150	1	3
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	453	34.85	124.5	89	0	5
2016	Test	15	550	36.67	42.6	136	2	2
2017	Test	10	520	52.00	53.6	155	3	1
2018	First-class	3	241	80.33	62.9	100	1	2
2018	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	12	12.00	120.0	12	0	0
2018	Test	14	177	12.64	30.1	46	0	0
2019	First-class	5	42	8.40	32.8	29	0	0
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	452	41.09	134.1	107	1	3
2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	32	10.67	74.4	21	0	0

Murali Vijay bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	Mdns
Test	18	384	198	1	1/12	1/23	198.00	3.09	384.0	6
ODI	2	36	37	1	1/19	–	37.00	6.17	36.0	0
T20I	1	12	9	0	–	–	–	4.50	–	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	42	52	0	–	–	–	7.43	–	0

Wickets per year

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Murali Vijay: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2008	0
2009	0
2010	0
2011	0
2012	0
2013	0
2014	1
2015	1
2016	0
2017	0
2018	0
2019	0
2020	0

Year-by-year bowling (12 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2013	Test	1	0	–	3.00	0/3
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	13.00	0/13
2014	Test	7	1	102.00	3.00	1/12
2015	ODI	2	1	37.00	6.17	1/19
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	0	–	7.00	0/12
2015	T20I	1	0	–	4.50	0/9
2015	Test	2	0	–	0.67	0/0
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	8.00	0/8
2016	Test	3	0	–	3.08	0/3
2017	Test	2	0	–	5.00	0/3
2018	Test	3	0	–	3.44	0/10
2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	3.00	0/3

Murali Vijay against each team

vs Australia vs South Africa vs England vs New Zealand vs Sri Lanka vs West Indies

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
Australia	Test	28	1324	47.29	48.7	167	4	6
England	Test	22	785	35.68	40.2	146	3	2
Sri Lanka	Test	9	560	62.22	57.7	155	2	3
South Africa	Test	22	531	25.29	37.7	97	0	2
Bangladesh	Test	4	295	73.75	59.6	150	2	0
New Zealand	Test	10	234	23.40	42.3	76	0	2
West Indies	Test	9	148	16.44	41.8	45	0	0
Zimbabwe	ODI	5	118	23.60	57.6	72	0	1
New Zealand	ODI	3	92	30.67	65.7	33	0	0
South Africa	ODI	4	43	10.75	72.9	25	0	0
Zimbabwe	T20I	4	98	24.50	132.4	46	0	0
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	19	412	22.89	105.6	54	0	1
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	394	26.27	143.3	95	0	3
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	387	32.25	136.3	127	1	2
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	345	31.36	137.5	113	1	0
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	256	21.33	113.3	50	0	1
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	164	27.33	118.0	74	0	2
Sunrisers Hyderabad	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	143	20.43	109.2	52	0	1
Pune Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	94	23.50	101.1	31	0	0
Deccan Chargers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	91	13.00	98.9	31	0	0
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	80	26.67	108.1	35	0	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
England	Test	4	1	32.00	3.20	1/12
Australia	Test	7	0	–	3.28	0/10
New Zealand	Test	3	0	–	3.08	0/3

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
MA Chidambaram Stadium	33	973	31.39	127
Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium	18	760	44.71	153
Arun Jaitley Stadium	15	380	27.14	155
Trent Bridge	4	354	88.50	146
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	6	337	56.17	167
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	8	306	38.25	128
Wankhede Stadium	8	282	35.25	136
M Chinnaswamy Stadium	10	265	29.44	139
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	3	212	70.67	126
Harare Sports Club	8	205	25.62	72

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
Lord's	2	1	23.00	3.29
Harare Sports Club	3	1	46.00	5.75

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	1859	1593	116.7	59	6	0	8.00
T20	Middle	1101	841	130.9	50	48	0	6.62
T20	Death	168	99	169.7	9	–	–	–
ODI	Powerplay	182	315	57.8	10	–	–	–
ODI	Middle	157	191	82.2	6	36	1	6.17

How Murali Vijay was dismissed

Caught135 (55%)
Bowled38 (16%)
Lbw36 (15%)
Run out20 (8%)
Stumped11 (4%)
Caught and bowled5 (2%)

How Murali Vijay took wickets

Lbw2

Last 20 innings

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Murali Vijay: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
14 Dec 2018	20
25 Feb 2019	3
27 Feb 2019	77
28 Feb 2019	74
2 Mar 2019	107
26 Apr 2019	38
7 May 2019	26
10 Sep 2019	7
10 Sep 2019	0
16 Sep 2019	0
16 Sep 2019	29
23 Sep 2019	6
8 Nov 2019	1
9 Nov 2019	35
11 Nov 2019	51
14 Nov 2019	33
17 Nov 2019	7
19 Sep 2020	1
22 Sep 2020	21
25 Sep 2020	10

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
25 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Delhi Capitals	10	15	caught	Dubai International Cricket Stadium
22 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan Royals	21	21	caught	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
19 Sep 2020	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	1	7	lbw	Zayed Cricket Stadium
17 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Vidarbha	7	9	bowled	Greenfield Stadium
14 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Manipur	33	14	run out	Greenfield Stadium
11 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Uttar Pradesh	51	42	stumped	Greenfield Stadium
9 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan	35	29	caught	St'Xavier's KCA Cricket Ground
8 Nov 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kerala	1	6	caught	St'Xavier's KCA Cricket Ground
23 Sep 2019	First-class	Essex	6	6	caught	County Ground, Taunton
16 Sep 2019	First-class	Hampshire	29	59	caught	The Rose Bowl
16 Sep 2019	First-class	Hampshire	0	9	lbw	The Rose Bowl
10 Sep 2019	First-class	Yorkshire	0	8	lbw	County Ground, Taunton
10 Sep 2019	First-class	Yorkshire	7	46	caught	County Ground, Taunton
7 May 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	26	26	stumped	MA Chidambaram Stadium
26 Apr 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	38	35	caught	MA Chidambaram Stadium
2 Mar 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Meghalaya	107	67	bowled	Lalbhai Contractor Stadium
28 Feb 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Vidarbha	74	47	run out	Lalbhai Contractor Stadium
27 Feb 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Himachal Pradesh	77	58	run out	C B Patel Ground
25 Feb 2019	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Gujarat	3	4	lbw	Lalbhai Contractor Stadium
14 Dec 2018	Test	Australia	20	67	bowled	Perth Stadium

Batter vs bowler matchups

Bowlers Murali Vijay faced most

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Murali Vijay scored in Tests?

3,877 runs in 104 innings (60 matches) at an average of 37.64 and a strike rate of 45.9, in the data from 2008 to 2018.

How many runs has Murali Vijay scored in ODIs?

339 runs in 16 innings (17 matches) at an average of 21.19 and a strike rate of 67.0, in the data from 2010 to 2015.

How many runs has Murali Vijay scored in T20Is?

121 runs in 8 innings (8 matches) at an average of 15.12 and a strike rate of 112.0, in the data from 2010 to 2015.

What is Murali Vijay's highest score?

167 in Tests, the highest score in the data.

How many centuries has Murali Vijay scored?

15 hundreds in the data: 11 in Tests, 3 in T20 leagues, 1 in first-class.

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