Irfan Pathan – Profile, Stats & Recent Form

Personal details

Full nameIrfan Khan Pathan

Born27 Oct 1984

Age42 Years

NationalityIndian

RoleAll Rounder / Left hand Batsman & Left arm medium fast

BattingLeft hand Bat

BowlingLeft Arm Medium Fast

Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Career at a glance

Format	M	Runs	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Test	29	1105	31.57	53.22	100	3.28
ODI	120	1544	23.39	79.54	173	5.26
T20I	24	172	24.57	119.44	28	8.02
T20	182	2028	22.79	123.96	173	7.6
List A	193	2454	22.3	79.85	272	5.06
First-class	122	4559	30.39	0	384	3.1
T10	16	153	21.86	171.91	1	11.88

Debuts

TestIndia vs South Africa at Ahmedabad3 Apr 2008

ODISri Lanka vs India at Pallekele4 Aug 2012

T20IIndia vs South Africa at Colombo (RPS)20 Aug 2012

First ClassJ + K vs Jharkhand at Jammu7 Jan 2019

List AJ + K vs Assam at Chennai11 Oct 2018

T20Tuskers vs Gladiators at Hambantota10 Dec 2020

Family

RelationsSafa Baig (Spouse), Yusuf Pathan (Brother)

Batting

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Test	29	40	5	1105	102	31.57	2076	53.22	1	6	131	18	8
ODI	120	87	21	1544	83	23.39	1941	79.54	0	5	142	37	21
T20I	24	14	7	172	33	24.57	144	119.44	0	0	9	7	2
T20	182	143	54	2028	65	22.79	1636	123.96	0	2	150	70	44
List A	193	143	33	2454	83	22.3	3073	79.85	0	9	0	0	39
First-class	122	179	29	4559	121	30.39	0	0	3	26	0	0	30
T10	16	12	5	153	37	21.86	89	171.91	0	0	17	8	0

Bowling

Format	M	Inn	Overs	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	5W	10W
Test	29	54	980.4	3226	100	12/126	32.26	3.28	7	2
ODI	120	118	975.5	5142	173	5/27	29.72	5.26	2	0
T20I	24	23	77	618	28	3/16	22.07	8.02	0	0
T20	182	175	601	4568	173	5/13	26.4	7.6	1	0
List A	193	0	1560.5	7898	272	5/27	29.03	5.06	2	0
First-class	122	0	3505.4	10880	384	–	28.33	3.1	19	3
T10	16	6	8	95	1	1/13	95.00	11.88	0	0

By tournament

Tournament	M	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	Wkts	Econ
Indian Premier League	103	1139	60	21.90	120.40	80	7.78
Ranji Trophy	17	753	91	26.89	59.34	32	2.86
ICC Men's T20 World Cup	15	86	31	17.20	116.22	16	11.07
Vijay Hazare Trophy	16	214	50	17.83	74.56	18	4.57
Lanka Premier League	4	54	25	27.00	88.52	0	–
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy	5	50	26	25.00	166.67	4	8.39
Asia Cup	12	104	38	34.67	80.62	22	5.54
ICC Champions Trophy	5	29	19	14.50	70.73	5	3.48

Against teams

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR
Australia	3	57	31	28.50	93.44
New Zealand	3	38	15	19.00	111.76
Sri Lanka	1	33	33	33.00	206.25
Pakistan	2	23	20	23.00	127.78
Bangladesh	1	11	11	–	366.67
England	2	8	8	8.00	100.00
West Indies	1	2	2	2.00	66.67
South Africa	1	0	0	–	0.00

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Pakistan	3	6	66	11.00	8.25	8.00
New Zealand	4	5	126	25.20	9.69	15.60
England	2	5	54	10.80	13.50	4.80
Australia	4	4	115	28.75	10.45	16.50
Sri Lanka	2	4	61	15.25	7.63	12.00
South Africa	4	2	116	58.00	9.67	36.00
West Indies	1	1	9	9.00	4.50	12.00
Afghanistan	1	1	29	29.00	–	0.00
Ireland	1	0	22	–	7.33	–
Bangladesh	1	0	20	–	10.00	–

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50
Pakistan	18	399	65	28.50	85.26	2
Sri Lanka	21	392	83	24.50	94.92	0
Australia	19	269	30	14.16	67.93	0
England	9	159	46	17.67	65.98	0
South Africa	6	138	47	27.60	70.05	0
West Indies	7	92	64	13.14	70.23	1
New Zealand	2	60	50	30.00	88.24	0
Bangladesh	1	21	21	21.00	190.91	0
Zimbabwe	3	13	5	13.00	86.67	0

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Sri Lanka	30	45	1311	29.13	7.09	24.67
Pakistan	23	34	1156	34.00	6.87	29.68
Australia	24	31	1115	35.97	6.06	35.61
England	10	16	392	24.50	7.24	20.31
West Indies	10	13	383	29.46	7.66	23.08
Zimbabwe	5	11	168	15.27	4.54	20.18
South Africa	7	7	258	36.86	12.29	18.00
Bangladesh	4	6	186	31.00	5.31	35.00
New Zealand	3	5	134	26.80	–	0.00

Batting vs	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50	100
Pakistan	13	385	102	35.00	56.87	1	1
Sri Lanka	5	202	93	40.40	58.21	2	0
Australia	9	197	55	24.63	42.64	1	0
England	5	121	52	24.20	63.68	1	0
South Africa	3	88	43	88.00	52.07	0	0
Zimbabwe	2	84	52	42.00	56.76	1	0
West Indies	1	19	19	19.00	36.54	0	0
Bangladesh	2	9	5	4.50	29.03	0	0

Bowling vs	Inn	Wkts	Runs	Avg	Econ	SR
Pakistan	19	27	1348	49.93	3.27	91.59
Zimbabwe	4	21	237	11.29	3.64	18.62
Bangladesh	4	18	214	11.89	3.40	21.00
Australia	11	14	663	47.36	3.42	83.14
England	6	8	315	39.38	3.12	75.75
Sri Lanka	5	7	182	26.00	2.94	53.14
South Africa	3	3	174	58.00	3.03	114.67
West Indies	2	2	93	46.50	3.58	78.00

Last 10 innings · batting

24vs BAN-L

8vs SA-L

10vs ENG-L

1vs AUS-L

32vs MT

49*vs PP

10vs ENG-L

10vs SA-L

19*vs AUS-M

11vs AUS-M

T20 vs BAN-L11 Oct 2026 · b Enamul Haque jnr 24(41) T20 vs SA-L10 Oct 2026 · c ABD Villiers b GC Viljoen 8(8) T20 vs ENG-L4 Oct 2026 · c L Plunkett b SR Patel 10(6) T20 vs AUS-L3 Oct 2026 · st BR Dunk b F Ahmed 1(2) T20 vs MT30 Jan 2026 · c CR Brathwaite b PM Siddle 32(31) T20 vs PP28 Jan 2026 · Not out 49*(26) T20 vs ENG-L27 Jul 2025 · c R Bopara b A Shahzad 10(8) T20 vs SA-L22 Jul 2025 · lbw b A Phangiso 10(9) T20 vs AUS-M13 Mar 2025 · Not out 19*(7) T20 vs AUS-M5 Mar 2025 · c BW Hilfenhaus b DT Christian 11(13)

Last 10 innings · bowling

0/6vs PP

0/8vs ENG-L

0/15vs AUS-L

0/10vs SA-L

0/47vs WI-M

2/31vs AUS-M

1/47vs WI-M

0/31vs AUS-M

0/9vs SA-M

0/25vs ENG-M

T20 vs PP28 Jan 2026 0/6 T20 vs ENG-L27 Jul 2025 0/8 T20 vs AUS-L26 Jul 2025 0/15 T20 vs SA-L22 Jul 2025 0/10 T20 vs WI-M16 Mar 2025 0/47 T20 vs AUS-M13 Mar 2025 2/31 T20 vs WI-M8 Mar 2025 1/47 T20 vs AUS-M5 Mar 2025 0/31 T20 vs SA-M1 Mar 2025 0/9 T20 vs ENG-M25 Feb 2025 0/25

About Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan Biography

Irfan Pathan is an Indian cricketer, born in Baroda, Gujarat on 27 October 1984. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium fast bowler. Primarily a bowler, he often helped put some great knocks with the bat down the order.

Background

He was noticed in junior cricket at a very young age of 13 years. He represented Baroda in U-14, U-15, U-16 and U-19 teams well below the age limit. He also played for India U-15. He was brilliant with both bat and the ball and his performances kept getting better.

He was then given a chance in the U-22 team. He returned with figures of 4/71 and scored 44 against Saurashtra. This performance made the selectors elevate him to the India Emerging Players squad.

Debut

Irfan made his international debut in a Test match against Australia on 12 December 2003 in Adelaide. It did not go well for him as he took 1/160 and scored only 1 run in the match. He was dropped in the next match.

He again got a chance two test matches later, but again he failed to impress with figures of 3/106 in the match.

In the tri-nation ODI series including Australia and Zimbabwe that followed, he was the highest wicket-taker. He took 16 wickets in the series. He got his first Man of the Match for his brilliant figures of 4/24 against Zimbabwe.

Rise to glory

He piled on a few records to his name. In 2005, in a two-Test series against Zimbabwe, he picked up 21 wickets and became only the third bowler in the world to do so. By the time, his batting was also coming to the fore as he was promoted up the order and scored a few half centuries batting at no. 3.

His quickfire innings of 83 runs against Sri Lanka proved to be the catalyst for India to score 350. He also took 4/37 and 3/38 in other matches of the series and got two Man of the Match awards.

He also performed in both the departments in Test cricket. His then-Test-best score of 93 runs again came against Sri Lanka and set up the match for India. His fifties in Test cricket were like bonus for the team.

In 2006, he got an A-grade contract by the BCCI and was also being compared to the all-time legend all-rounder Kapil Dev.

He then was part of the ICC T20 World Cup winning squad in 2007. He was one of the senior players of the young team.

Low points

Since the World T20 win, his performance did not remain consistent. He was in and out of the team. His talent and skills forced the selectors to call him back, but his poor form kept him out of the team again and again.

He made a few comebacks to the Indian team but none of them lasted long. His domestic performances were also not so great. He last played for the national team in a T20 against South Africa in 2012. He has failed to make a comeback since then.

Club career

He has played for the English county Middlesex in 2005. Apart from that, he has played only the IPL.

In 2008, since the inception of IPL, he played for the Kings XI Punjab for three years. Later, he switched teams and played for the Delhi Daredevils for another three years.

His performances were not upto the mark in IPL as well. Due to this, he had to keep changing his teams every year since then. He played for the Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2014, Chennai Super Kings in 2015, Rising Pune Supergiants in 2016 and Gujarat Lions in 2017.

Records

Irfan Pathan is the only bowler to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match. He is the fastest Indian bowler to 100 ODI wickets (59 matches, Next best: 65 matches by Zaheer Khan).

He also holds the record for the fastest ODI double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets (1059 days).

In 29 Test matches, he has amassed 1105 runs at an average of 31.57. He has six fifties and one century to his name. Also, he has taken exactly 100 Test wickets at an average of 32.26. His best bowling figures are 7/59.

He has 1544 ODI runs under his belt at an average of 23.39 in 120 matches. He has 5 fifties in ODI cricket. He also has 173 wickets at 29.72 with 5/27 being his best.

He has played 24 T20Is and scored 172 runs. He has taken 28 wickets at an average of 22.07 and economy rate of 8.02.

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