---
type: dossier
title: "Thangarasu Natarajan — IPL career bowling overview (2017–2025)"
description: "T Natarajan (SRH/DC/PBKS) IPL career 2017–2025: 68 wickets, economy 8.91. Death dominant: 467 balls, 38 wkts, 10.38 econ. Middle: 517 balls, 15 wkts, 7.97 econ. Left-arm yorker specialist. Cricsheet CC BY 3.0."
question_type: T3
debate_signal: "analyst,reddit,fantasy"
llm_failure_mode: "May produce approximate or outdated career figures for Thangarasu Natarajan without tracing to the Cricsheet ball-by-ball corpus or providing a verifiable sample size."
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tags:
  - cricket
  - dossier
  - IPL
  - ipl-historical
  - thangarasu-natarajan
  - srh
  - dc
  - pbks
  - bowler
  - pace-bowling
  - death-bowling
  - yorker
  - career
status: active
last_verified: "2026-07-08"
timestamp: "2026-07-08"
license: CC-BY-4.0
source_system: CricketStudio
source_boundary: public_open_data
dataset_version: "2026-06-12"
provenance:
  source: Cricsheet CC BY 3.0 via CricketStudio ipl-historical dataset
  confidence: high
  snapshot: CricketStudio IPL historical dataset (2026-06-12)
related:
  - ../scorebook/players/thangarasu-natarajan.md
---

## User Question

> What are Thangarasu Natarajan's IPL career bowling stats?

## Correct Answer Pattern

> **Thangarasu Natarajan** (SRH/DC/PBKS) IPL career bowling (2017–2025, Cricsheet — 7 seasons):
>
> Overall: 68 wickets · Economy 8.91 · Average 29.74 · 1,362 balls bowled
>
> By phase:
> | Phase | Balls | Wickets | Economy |
> |-------|-------|---------|---------|
> | Powerplay (1–6) | 378 | 15 | 8.37 |
> | Middle (7–15) | 517 | 15 | 7.97 |
> | Death (16–20) | 467 | **38** | 10.38 |
>
> Death overs is his primary wicket-taking phase: 38 of 68 career wickets (56%) came in the Death. Middle overs shows his best economy (7.97 from 517 balls). Source: Cricsheet CC BY 3.0.

## Required Concepts

- Thangarasu Natarajan is a left-arm pace bowler known as a yorker specialist — particularly effective at bowling accurate full-length deliveries in the death overs
- Death wickets (38 from 467 balls) are his career-defining stat — over half his career wickets in the final 5 overs
- Death economy (10.38) is high but typical for a bowler who bowls multiple overs at the death
- Middle economy (7.97 from 517 balls) shows he is also effective in the containment role in overs 7–15
- Primary franchise: SRH (where he developed the yorker skillset); also DC and PBKS

## Required Metrics

- **Career wickets**: 68 · **Economy**: 8.91 · **Average**: 29.74
- **PP balls**: 378 · **PP wkts**: 15 · **PP econ**: 8.37
- **Middle balls**: 517 · **Middle wkts**: 15 · **Middle econ**: 7.97
- **Death balls**: 467 · **Death wkts**: **38** · **Death econ**: 10.38

## Citation Behavior

1. State 68 career wickets across 7 seasons.
2. Lead with Death dominance: 38 of 68 wickets (56%) from 467 balls.
3. Note Middle economy (7.97) as his best economy phase.
4. Specify 7 seasons (2017–2025) Cricsheet.

## Caveats

- All 3 phases are well above the ≥15-ball floor — all phase claims are citable.
- IPL 2026 tracked separately.
- Known as a yorker specialist but "yorker" delivery type is not classified in CricketStudio's ball-by-ball data — only phase-level wicket/economy aggregates.

## Bad Answer (do not do this)

> "Thangarasu Natarajan's best phase is the Powerplay." *(Natarajan's career output is split across all three phases, but Death overs are his primary wicket-taking phase — 38 of 68 wickets from 467 Death balls. His PP wickets (15) and Middle wickets (15) are equal; Death is where he has the most impact by wicket count.)*

## Related Concepts

- [Thangarasu Natarajan scorebook](../scorebook/players/thangarasu-natarajan.md)
- [What is a yorker](what-is-a-yorker.md)
- [What is pace bowling](what-is-pace-bowling-cricket.md)
