List of India Twenty20 International cricketers

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Kingsmead, Durban, where India recorded their highest ever total in a Twenty20 International

A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket match which is played over 20 overs per side between two national cricket teams. The game is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket. The first T20I was played between Australia and New Zealand on 17 February 2005.^[1] The Indian cricket team played its first T20I match—under the captaincy of Virender Sehwag—on 1 December 2006, against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.^[2][3][4] In the only T20I match of the series, India won by six wickets.^[4] As of March 2016, India is the fifth-most successful T20I team, having played 73 T20I matches with 44 wins,^[5] and a tie against Pakistan.^[6] In 2007, India won the world championship at the inaugural edition of the ICC World Twenty20, defeating Pakistan by five runs.^[7]

As of March 2016, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain and has made the most appearances for India in T20Is.^[8] Virat Kohli is the leading run scorer with 1641 runs from 40 innings at an average of 58.60.^[8] As of March 2016, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma are the only players to score a century in a T20I for India.^[8] With 50 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin is the team's leading wicket-taker,^[9] while his 4/8 remain the best bowling figures for an India bowler in the format.^[10] Yuvraj Singh became the first player to hit six sixes in an over in a T20I;^[11] performing the feat against England on 19 September 2007 during the inaugural ICC World Twenty20.^[12] In the event he also scored a fifty which came off 12 balls, thus achieving the fastest fifty in international cricket.^[11][13] India's highest total, 218, came in the same match, which they won by 18 runs.^[14] As of March 2016, the score is the eleventh highest total in an innings by a team in a T20I.^[15] The team's lowest total, 74, came against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2008.^[14] India won the Asia Cup for sixth time in 2016 held in Twenty20 format for the first time.

Key

General  – Captain  – Wicket-keeper  – Player now retired from international cricket First – Year of debut Last – Year of latest game Mat – Number of matches played Fielding Ca – Catches taken St – Stumpings taken

Batting Inn – Number of innings batted NO – Number of innings not out Runs – Runs scored in career HS – Highest score Avg – Average runs scored per dismissal * – Batsman remained not out

Bowling Balls – Balls bowled in career Mdn – Number of maiden overs (overs in which no runs were scored) Runs – Runs conceded in career Wkt – Wickets taken in career BB – Best bowling in an innings Avg – Average runs conceded per wicket

Captains Won – Number of games won Lost – Number of games lost Tied – Number of games tied[lower-alpha 1] NR – Number of games with no result Win% – Ratio of games won to those captained[lower-alpha 2]

Players

• Statistics are last updated on 31 March 2016.^[16] The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first cap. To sort this table by any statistic, click on the icon on the column title.

2006-10

India T20I cricketers

General					Batting						Bowling				Fielding
Cap[17]	Name	First	Last	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	S/R	Wkt	BBI	Avg	Econ.	Ca	St
1	Ajit Agarkar	2006	2007	4	2	0	15	14	7.50	136.36	3	2/10	28.33	8.09	0	0
2	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2006	2016	68	60	31	1041	48*	35.89	121.89	–	–	–	–	39	21
3	Harbhajan Singh	2006	2016	28	13	5	108	21	13.50	124.13	25	4/12	25.32	6.20	7	0
4	Dinesh Karthik	2006	2010	9	8	2	100	31*	16.66	113.63	–	–	–	–	5	2
5	Zaheer Khan	2006	2012	17	4	2	13	9	6.50	130.00	17	4/19	26.35	7.63	2	0
6	Dinesh Mongia	2006	2006	1	1	0	38	38	38.00	84.44	–	–	–	–	1	0
7	Irfan Pathan	2006	2009	24	14	7	172	33*	24.57	119.44	28	3/16	22.07	8.02	2	0
8	Suresh Raina	2006	2016	62	52	11	1203	101	29.34	132.92	12	2/6	27.16	7.21	28	0
9	Virender Sehwag	2006	2013	19	18	0	394	68	21.88	145.38	0	–	–	20.00	2	0
10	Sreesanth	2006	2008	10	3	2	20	19*	20.00	142.85	7	2/12	41.14	8.47	2	0
11	Sachin Tendulkar	2006	2006	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	83.33	1	1/12	12.00	4.80	1	0
12	Gautam Gambhir	2007	2012	37	36	2	932	75	27.41	119.02	–	–	–	–	11	0
13	RP Singh	2007	2009	10	2	2	3	2*	–	100.00	15	4/13	15.00	6.81	2	0
14	Robin Uthappa	2007	2015	13	12	2	249	50	24.90	118.00	–	–	–	–	2	0
15	Yuvraj Singh	2007	2016	55	48	9	1134	77*	29.07	136.95	28	3/17	17.82	7.06	12	0
16	Joginder Sharma	2007	2007	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	2/20	34.50	9.51	2	0
17	Rohit Sharma	2007	2016	60	53	11	1292	106	30.76	126.91	1	1/22	113.00	9.97	22	0
18	Yusuf Pathan	2007	2011	22	18	5	236	37*	18.15	146.58	13	2/22	33.69	8.61	9	0
19	Murali Kartik	2007	2007	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	6.75	0	0
20	Praveen Kumar	2008	2012	10	3	0	7	6	2.33	43.75	8	2/14	24.12	7.42	1	0
21	Ishant Sharma	2008	2013	14	3	2	8	5*	8.00	88.88	8	2/34	50.00	8.63	4	0
22	Ravindra Jadeja	2009	2016	37	17	5	103	25	8.58	88.79	29	3/48	30.75	7.04	18	0
23	Pragyan Ojha	2009	2010	6	1	1	10	10*	–	166.66	10	4/21	13.20	6.28	1	0
24	Ashok Dinda	2009	2010	9	2	1	22	19	22.00	91.66	17	4/19	14.41	8.16	1	0
25	Ashish Nehra	2009	2016	23	5	0	28	22	5.60	71.79	31	3/19	20.87	7.70	4	0
26	Sudeep Tyagi	2009	2009	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	10.50	1	0
27	Murali Vijay	2010	2015	9	9	0	169	48	18.77	109.74	0	–	–	4.50	3	0
28	Piyush Chawla	2010	2010	7	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	4	2/13	37.75	6.56	2	0
29	Vinay Kumar	2010	2012	9	1	1	2	2*	–	50.00	10	3/24	24.70	7.84	1	0
30	Ravichandran Ashwin	2010	2016	43	10	6	112	31*	28.00	103.70	50	4/8	22.14	6.91	7	0
31	Virat Kohli	2010	2016	43	40	12	1641	90*	58.60	135.71	4	1/13	49.50	8.13	20	0
32	Naman Ojha	2010	2010	2	2	0	12	10	6.00	44.44	–	–	–	–	0	0
33	Amit Mishra	2010	2010	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	11	3/26	15.27	6.46	0	0

2011-present

General					Batting						Bowling				Fielding
Cap	Name	First	Last	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	S/R	Wkt	BBI	Avg	Econ.	Ca	St
34	Munaf Patel	2011	2011	3	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	4	2/25	21.50	8.60	0	0
35	Subramaniam Badrinath	2011	2011	1	1	0	43	43	43.00	116.21	–	–	–	–	0	0
36	Shikhar Dhawan	2011	2016	22	22	2	416	60	20.80	113.35	–	–	–	–	5	0
37	Parthiv Patel	2011	2011	2	2	0	36	26	18.00	112.50	–	–	–	–	1	0
38	Rahul Dravid	2011	2011	1	1	0	31	31	31.00	147.61	–	–	–	–	0	0
39	Ajinkya Rahane	2011	2016	18	18	1	364	61	21.41	113.75	–	–	–	–	15	0
40	Manoj Tiwary	2011	2015	3	1	0	15	15	15.00	88.23	–	–	–	–	2	0
41	Rahul Sharma	2012	2012	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	2/29	18.66	7.63	0	0
42	Umesh Yadav	2012	2012	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1/24	24.00	8.00	0	0
43	Lakshmipathy Balaji	2012	2012	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	3/19	12.10	7.56	0	0
44	Parvinder Awana	2012	2012	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	11.83	0	0
45	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	2012	2016	14	4	2	15	6*	7.50	100.00	15	3/9	20.13	6.16	3	0
46	Mohammed Shami	2014	2014	4	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	3/38	25.00	8.92	0	0
47	Mohit Sharma	2014	2015	8	2	2	3	3*	–	42.85	6	2/28	30.83	8.04	1	0
48	Ambati Rayudu	2014	2015	3	3	1	3	3*	1.50	37.50	–	–	–	–	2	0
49	Karn Sharma	2014	2014	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	6.57	0	0
50	Stuart Binny	2015	2015	2	2	0	35	24	17.50	120.68	1	1/14	22.00	5.50	0	0
51	Kedar Jadhav	2015	2015	2	2	0	14	9	7.00	107.69	–	–	–	–	1	0
52	Manish Pandey	2015	2016	3	2	0	19	19	9.50	86.36	–	–	–	–	1	0
53	Axar Patel	2015	2015	4	3	1	54	17*	7.71	120.00	5	3/17	20.40	6.80	2	0
54	Sandeep Sharma	2015	2015	2	1	1	1	1*	–	100.00	1	1/39	73.00	10.42	0	0
55	Sanju Samson	2015	2015	1	1	0	19	19	19.00	79.16	–	–	–	–	1	0
56	Sreenath Aravind	2015	2015	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1/44	44.00	6.57	0	0
57	Jasprit Bumrah	2016	2016	16	2	1	0	0*	0.00	–	19	3/23	20.84	6.65	1	0
58	Hardik Pandya	2016	2016	16	7	0	78	31	11.14	139.28	15	3/8	24.00	8.08	10	0
59	Pawan Negi	2016	2016	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1/16	16.00	5.33	2	0

T20I captains

India T20I captains

No.	Name[2]	First	Last	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied[lower-alpha 1]	NR	Win%[lower-alpha 3][18]
01	Virender Sehwag	2006	2006	1	1	0	0	0	100%
02	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007	2016	067	39	26	1	1	59.84%
03	Suresh Raina	2010	2011	03	3	0	0	0	100%
04	Ajinkya Rahane	2015	2015	02	1	1	0	0	50%
Total				73	44	27	1	1	61.80%

Notes

Footnotes

1. Matches that were tied and decided by bowlout are listed as tied.
2. The games that did not have a result are not included in calculating the win ratio.
3. The percentage is worked out by counting tied games as half a win.

References

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External links

• Player Caps – ESPNCricinfo