Nicholas Pooran

Lucknow Super Giants · left-hand bat · Wicket-keeper batter

IndianWicket-keeper batterIPL 2026cricketplayerIPLwicket-keeperLHB✓ ClaimReview
14
Matches
234
Runs
127.2
Strike Rate
15.6
Average
19
Sixes
1
Fifties
63
HS

Phase analysis — IPL 2026

≥30 balls batting · ≥15 balls bowling✓ ClaimReview per phaseFull breakdown →
Powerplay (1–6)
128.9
SR · 38 balls · 49 R
49 runs2 4s5 6s
Middle (7–15)
110.8
SR · 130 balls · 144 R
144 runs8 4s9 6s
Death (16–20)sub-floor
273.3
SR · 15 balls · 41 R
41 runs1 4s5 6s

Nicholas Pooran's best IPL 2026 innings impact: team scored 209 (+36 vs venue par) when he made 38 vs RCB on 2026-05-07.

Per Himanish Ganjoo's Impact framing: team-total minus venue's 1st-innings par across ≥3 captured fixtures. Attribution rule: a batter is credited for an innings only when they scored ≥30 runs. Methodology: /methodology/player-event-claims#impact.

MetricIPL 2026 best innings impact (par-shift)
Value+36 vs par
PeriodIPL 2026 to date
Computed

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P3Form & phase

4 claims
Powerplay strike rate, IPL 2026
IPL 2026 best opponent (batting)
Powerplay batting strike rate in IPL 2026
128.9n=38 PP balls faced · IPL 2026

P4Season comparatives

4 claims
Lucknow Super Giants appearance rank, IPL 2026
Batting strike rate in IPL 2026
127.2n=184 balls faced · IPL 2026
Runs scored in IPL 2026
234n=14 innings · IPL 2026
Sixes hit in IPL 2026
19n=14 innings · IPL 2026

P2Moments

2 claims
IPL 2026 best non-opening partnership
Half-centuries in IPL 2026
1n=14 innings · IPL 2026

P1Match recaps

2 claims
IPL 2026 most-recent fixture appearance
IPL 2026 first appearance

Career snapshot

Multi-format reach. IPL 2026 derived from ball-by-ball capture; non-IPL formats deferred to Phase C per methodology.

FormatMatInnsRunsAvgSR10050HS
IPL 2026141423415.6127.90163*
IPL career100102252736.6164.301587
IPL 2026: Computed from CricketStudio aggregation of CricketMind ball-by-ball data, last updated 2026-07-30 07:32:34 UTC
IPL career: CricketStudio aggregation — IPL 2026 ball-by-ball + historical Cricsheet (CC BY 3.0), last updated 2026-07-30 07:32:34 UTC
Sample-size floor: ≥5 matches for IPL 2026 (season complete).

IPL career before 2026

Nicholas Pooran scored 2,293 runs in 86 pre-2026 IPL matches (2019–2025), strike rate 169.2.

Batting by season

SeasonTeamMatRunsHSSRAvg4s6s
2019PBKS616848157281014
2020/21PBKS1435377168.929.422325
2021PBKS108532111.87.7335
2022SRH1330664144.338.251621
2023LSG1535862172.929.832626
2024LSG1449975178.962.383536
2025LSG1452487197.743.674540
CareerLSG, PBKS, SRH86229387169.233.23158167
Window: IPL 20192025 (pre-2026), 86 matches. Sample-size floor: strike rate shown at ≥30 balls faced, economy at ≥15 balls bowled per season (§3.1); sub-floor cells show .
Source: CricketStudio aggregation of Cricsheet ball-by-ball (CC BY 3.0). Canonical↔historical player join via ESPNcricinfo ID (deterministic, no name-matching). See career leaderboards.

Recent form — last 8 innings

P3 · Form
DateMatchRunsBallsSR4s6sDismissalResult
2026-05-23LSG vs PBKS2728.600bowledL
2026-05-19RR vs LSG1611145.502caughtL
2026-05-15LSG vs CSK3217188.214runOutW
2026-05-10CSK vs LSG1333.300caughtL
2026-05-07LSG vs RCB3823165.241caughtW
2026-05-04MI vs LSG6321300.018caughtL
2026-04-26LSG vs KKR91369.201bowledL
2026-04-22LSG vs RR222588.030caughtL

Best innings — IPL career

By runs scored

Batting positions · IPL 2026

P3
PosInnRunsBallsSRAvg
#3 top order615282185.425.33
#4 middle3192965.56.33
#5 middle5637386.312.60

Source: SETU canonical aggregate. Position = first appearance in ball stream per innings.

Dismissal modes · IPL 2026

P3
8
53%
Caught
4
27%
Bowled
2
13%
Run-out

"Caught" includes stumpings (score type indistinguishable). Cross-reference: season leaderboards.

Performance vs teams — IPL 2026

≥1 innings vs team
vs TeamInnRunsBallsSRAvg4s6sHS
MI16321300.063.01863
RCB23930130.019.54138
RR23836105.619.03222
CSK23320165.016.51432
KKR2222878.611.00213
GT1192190.519.00219
PBKS2111668.85.5109
DC188100.08.0108
SRH11425.01.0001

Runs by venue — IPL career

Venue × seasonFull breakdown →

Head-to-head records

P5 · Opponent series

As batter

vs bowlerBallsRunsSR4s6sOut
Rasikh Salam Dar1318138.5300
Rashid Khan1218150.0020
Bhuvneshwar Kumar917188.9110
Jofra Archer7457.1100
Ravindra Jadeja7685.7000
Cameron Green69150.0010
Sunil Narine6233.3000
Navdeep Saini6466.7000
Josh Hazlewood6350.0000

Source: CricketStudio aggregation of ball-by-ball data. Cohort: IPL 2026 captured fixtures. Sub-5-delivery matchups excluded per doctrine §3.1.

vs Bowling type

L2 · Conditional≥30 balls floor
vs Pace
125.5
SR of 125.5 vs pace bowling — 110 balls faced
110 balls·10 6s
vs Spin
126.2
SR of 126.2 vs spin bowling — 65 balls faced
65 balls·8 6s

Full breakdown at /players/nicholas-pooran/by-bowling-type · Source: SETU conditional aggregate

Drill into the data

Every dimension below is computed from ball-by-ball record. Pages with insufficient sample render an explicit disclosure.

Research mentioning Nicholas

IPL 2026
Death Overs Intelligence

Who wins and loses IPL 2026 overs 16–20 — economy leaders, strike-rate leaders, and all 10 teams compared. Ball-by-ball provenance throughout.

2026-06-01

Related entities

Plays for
Lucknow Super Giants
Most-faced bowlers (IPL career)
Rashid Khan · 64 ballsSunil Narine · 49 ballsYuzvendra Chahal · 46 ballsRavindra Jadeja · 42 ballsKuldeep Yadav · 40 ballsKhaleel Ahmed · 40 ballsArshdeep Singh · 36 ballsPrasidh Krishna · 35 balls
Venues played at
Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium · 7 matchesRajiv Gandhi International Stadium · 1 matchEden Gardens · 1 matchM.Chinnaswamy Stadium · 1 matchMaharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur · 1 match

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Frequently asked

Nicholas Pooran is an Indian cricketer playing for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2026 as a wk-batter, left-handed batter born in Trinidad.
Nicholas Pooran plays for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2026.
Nicholas Pooran appeared in 14 IPL 2026 matches (14-fixture sample) for Lucknow Super Giants, most recently on 2026-05-23.
Nicholas Pooran's best IPL 2026 innings impact: team scored 209 (+36 vs venue par) when he made 38 vs RCB on 2026-05-07.
Nicholas Pooran's top opponent (batting) in IPL 2026: RCB — 39 runs in 2 innings (avg 19.5).
Nicholas Pooran scores at 128.9 strike rate in IPL 2026 powerplay (38-ball sample, #37 of 45 qualifying batters).
Nicholas Pooran's best non-opening IPL 2026 partnership: 89 for the 2nd wicket with Mitchell Marsh vs MI on 2026-05-04.
Nicholas Pooran ranks #2 of 24 CricketStudio-tracked Lucknow Super Giants squad members by IPL 2026 appearance count (14 matches).
Nicholas Pooran is Indian, born in Trinidad.
Ball-by-ball stats, phase splits, and atomic claims for Nicholas Pooran are available at players.cricketstudio.ai/players/nicholas-pooran — all figures include sample-size provenance and computation timestamps.
Nicholas Pooran was born on 2 October 1995.
Nicholas Pooran bats left-handed.

Identity & cross-references