Mitchell Santner
- Date of Birth 1992-2-5
- Role bowling allrounder
- Batting Style left-hand bat
- Bowling Style slow left-arm orthodox
Debut Matches
| Format | Match | Date |
|---|---|---|
| TEST | NZ vs AUS | 2015-11-27 |
| ODI | ENG vs NZ | 2015-06-09 |
| T20 | ENG vs NZ | 2015-06-23 |
Recent Performances
Batting Statistics
Matches
32
Innings
44
Runs
1085
Average
25.83
Strike Rate
47.17
Highest Score
126
100s
1
50s
4
Fours
120
Sixes
32
Catches
26
Bowling Statistics
Matches
32
Innings
54
Wickets
78
Average
33.37
Economy
2.81
Strike Rate
71.1
Best Figure
7/53
4 Wickets
2
5 Wickets
2
Balls Bowled
5551
Runs Conceded
2603
Batting Statistics
Matches
124
Innings
92
Runs
1580
Average
26.77
Strike Rate
93.54
Highest Score
67
100s
0
50s
3
Fours
115
Sixes
50
Catches
53
Bowling Statistics
Matches
124
Innings
118
Wickets
133
Average
35.46
Economy
4.81
Strike Rate
44.1
Best Figure
5/50
4 Wickets
0
5 Wickets
2
Balls Bowled
5875
Runs Conceded
4717
Batting Statistics
Matches
137
Innings
92
Runs
1108
Average
20.51
Strike Rate
130.66
Highest Score
77*
100s
0
50s
2
Fours
90
Sixes
43
Catches
49
Bowling Statistics
Matches
137
Innings
132
Wickets
140
Average
24.04
Economy
7.17
Strike Rate
20.1
Best Figure
4/11
4 Wickets
3
5 Wickets
0
Balls Bowled
2814
Runs Conceded
3366
Batting Statistics
Matches
154
Innings
119
Runs
2295
Average
27.32
Strike Rate
92.16
Highest Score
86
100s
0
50s
8
Fours
187
Sixes
66
Catches
69
Bowling Statistics
Matches
154
Innings
146
Wickets
170
Average
33.73
Economy
4.71
Strike Rate
42.9
Best Figure
5/50
4 Wickets
1
5 Wickets
2
Balls Bowled
7303
Runs Conceded
5735
Batting Statistics
Matches
267
Innings
195
Runs
2845
Average
23.51
Strike Rate
132.75
Highest Score
92*
100s
0
50s
7
Fours
217
Sixes
130
Catches
98
Bowling Statistics
Matches
267
Innings
258
Wickets
264
Average
24.63
Economy
7.17
Strike Rate
20.6
Best Figure
4/11
4 Wickets
3
5 Wickets
0
Balls Bowled
5442
Runs Conceded
6504
Mitchell Santner player profile
Spin-bowling allrounder Mitchell Santner made it to the New Zealand side as a replacement for his left-armer predecessor Daniel Vettori, and though he only played 30-odd Tests in his first decade in international cricket, he went on to captain them in the white-ball formats.
Picked for the one-day squad on the tour of England following the 2015 World Cup, Santner made an immediate impression with a well-crafted 94 in a tour game against Somerset, and his ODI debut came in the first match, at Edgbaston, only 19 List A matches into his career.
His debut Test was the first ever day-nighter, against Australia in Adelaide, where he made 31 and 45 batting at No. 6 in a low-scoring game, and took two wickets. Another early highlight was his five wickets and 71 and 32 with the bat in Kanpur on the 2016 tour of India. The next time New Zealand toured India, eight years later, Santner was front and centre in a famous victory in Pune, with 13 wickets, outspinning R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in a performance that set up a landmark 3-0 series win.
Santner was more of a regular in white-ball cricket than in Tests, and an ODI batting high point arrived in 2018 when he produced four scores of 40-plus in a row against England in the home series. He was bought by Chennai Super Kings - coached by fellow New Zealander Stephen Fleming - the following year to play in the IPL. In that 2019 tournament Santner won a game by hitting a six off the last ball against Rajasthan Royals and took 2 for 13 against Mumbai, including the prized wicket of Rohit Sharma. He won the IPL title with CSK in 2021 and 2023.
Santner's first Test century came in 2019, during an epic partnership with BJ Watling that took New Zealand to 615, their highest Test total against England. He then took three wickets in England's second innings, which helped New Zealand to a crushing innings victory.
In the ODI World Cup in England earlier that year, where New Zealand had come agonisingly close to the title, Santner bowled a clutch spell in the semi-final win over India, strangling their middle order. Three years on, at the T20 World Cup in Australia, he was a contributor in New Zealand's run to the final with nine wickets in five games, three of them in the league game win against Australia. In the ODI World Cup in India in 2023, he became the first New Zealand spinner to take five wickets in a World Cup game, against Netherlands. And in the match against Afghanistan in that tournament, he took his 100th ODI wicket, to go with the 1000-runs milestone he achieved the previous year.
In 2025, Santner, now captain in ODIs and T20Is, took 3 for 43 in the Champions Trophy semi-final in Lahore to guide New Zealand through to yet another title match.
Mitchell Santner - IPL factfile
- Mitchell Santner was a Chennai Super Kings (CSK) man for five seasons from 2019 to 2024 and was part of the title-winning units in 2021 and 2023.
- Being an overseas player and among the many spinners CSK had in their attack due to spin-friendly conditions at home, Santner never really got a proper run there; the six games he played in 2022 were the most he got in a season.
- He took 15 wickets at an economy rate of 7.06 in those six years. Santner was released by CSK before the 2025 auction, and was bought by Mumbai Indians (MI) for INR 2 crore.
- MI gave him as many as 13 games in 2025 in which Santner was very economical, going at 7.92 an over, and proved to be their best spinner.