India T20I most catches: All-Time Records

Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya have each held 60 catches in T20 internationals for India, more than anyone else. They took them very differently. Rohit needed 153 matches, Pandya 136, and both stood mostly in the ring or at slip rather than behind the stumps. Suryakumar Yadav is third on 58 from 110, and on current rates will pass both within a season.

A combined catching list mixes two unrelated jobs, so this page splits them. A wicketkeeper is offered a chance on almost every edge; an outfielder is offered the ones that carry to where he happens to be standing. Ranking MS Dhoni's gloved catches against Rohit's at slip tells you about the roles, not the fielders.

The other number worth watching is the rate. Rinku Singh has taken 42 catches in 44 T20Is, a rate close to one a match, which is the highest by a distance among India fielders with meaningful experience in the format. All figures here are computed from ball-by-ball records of 276 India men's T20Is played between December 2006 and July 2026.

Most T20I catches for India, all fielders

Rank	Player	Span	Matches	Catches	As keeper	In the field	Per match
=1	Rohit Sharma	2007-2024	153	60	0	60	0.39
=1	Hardik Pandya	2016-2026	136	60	0	60	0.44
3	Suryakumar Yadav	2021-2026	110	58	0	58	0.53
4	MS Dhoni	2006-2019	95	52	50	2	0.55
5	Virat Kohli	2010-2024	118	51	0	51	0.43
6	Tilak Varma	2023-2026	57	44	0	44	0.77
7	Sanju Samson	2015-2026	65	43	35	8	0.66
8	Rinku Singh	2023-2026	44	42	0	42	0.95
9	Suresh Raina	2006-2018	76	41	0	41	0.54
10	Rishabh Pant	2017-2024	72	37	33	4	0.51
11	Axar Patel	2015-2026	97	31	0	31	0.32
=12	Dinesh Karthik	2006-2022	57	29	25	4	0.51
=12	Ishan Kishan	2021-2026	55	29	25	4	0.53
=14	KL Rahul	2016-2022	69	24	17	7	0.35
=14	Shivam Dube	2019-2026	67	24	0	24	0.36
16	Abhishek Sharma	2024-2026	56	22	0	22	0.39
17	Shreyas Iyer	2017-2026	60	21	0	21	0.35
18	Ravi Bishnoi	2022-2026	45	20	0	20	0.44
=19	Ravindra Jadeja	2009-2024	71	19	0	19	0.27
=19	Shikhar Dhawan	2011-2021	67	19	0	19	0.28
=19	Arshdeep Singh	2022-2026	86	19	0	19	0.22
22	Washington Sundar	2017-2026	57	18	0	18	0.32
=23	Ajinkya Rahane	2011-2016	20	16	0	16	0.80
=24	Deepak Hooda	2022-2023	20	15	0	15	0.75
=24	Yashasvi Jaiswal	2023-2024	20	15	0	15	0.75

The keeper column counts catches taken in matches where that player kept wicket for India. Players who have done both jobs — Samson, Rahul, Kishan and Karthik have all fielded in the ring in matches where somebody else kept — show a split across the two columns.

Most T20I catches by an India outfielder

Rank	Fielder	Matches	Catches	Per match
=1	Rohit Sharma	153	60	0.39
=1	Hardik Pandya	136	60	0.44
3	Suryakumar Yadav	110	58	0.53
4	Virat Kohli	118	51	0.43
5	Tilak Varma	57	44	0.77
6	Rinku Singh	44	42	0.95
7	Suresh Raina	76	41	0.54
8	Axar Patel	97	31	0.32
9	Shivam Dube	67	24	0.36
10	Abhishek Sharma	56	22	0.39

Rohit Sharma held his 60 mostly at slip, a position he occupied for India through two distinct captaincies. Suryakumar Yadav has taken his in the deep and in the ring, and his catch on the boundary at the 2024 World Cup final is the most replayed piece of Indian outfielding in the format's history.

The rate table, and why Rinku Singh sits on top

Fielder	Matches	Catches	Catches per match
Rinku Singh	44	42	0.95
Ajinkya Rahane	20	16	0.80
Tilak Varma	57	44	0.77
Deepak Hooda	20	15	0.75
Yashasvi Jaiswal	20	15	0.75
Suryakumar Yadav	110	58	0.53
Suresh Raina	76	41	0.54

This table uses a minimum of twenty T20Is, because below that a single good week distorts everything. Even at twenty the sample is thin, and the three players tied around 0.75 to 0.80 have each played a fifth as many matches as Rohit.

Rinku Singh's 0.95 is the one figure that survives scrutiny at a larger sample. He is a specialist boundary fielder in a side that has bowled a lot of overs to batters trying to clear the rope, and he is stationed where the mishits go. Tilak Varma's 0.77 from 57 matches is the most impressive of the group on volume, and both men belong to a fielding generation that India selected partly on ground work rather than despite it.

The keepers

Keeper	Span	Matches kept	Catches as keeper	Stumpings	Dismissals
MS Dhoni	2006-2019	77	50	34	84
Sanju Samson	2015-2026	43	35	6	41
Rishabh Pant	2017-2024	33	33	11	44
Ishan Kishan	2021-2026	28	25	5	30
Dinesh Karthik	2006-2022	21	25	8	33
KL Rahul	2016-2022	17	17	1	18

MS Dhoni's 34 stumpings are the world record in the format and outnumber the combined total of every other India keeper here. His catching, by contrast, is not exceptional by rate: 50 in 77 matches kept, against Rishabh Pant's 33 in 33. The full dismissal picture is on the India T20I wicketkeeper dismissals record page, and the stumpings alone on the India T20I most stumpings page.

Who the catches came against

Fielder	Leading opponents
Rohit Sharma	West Indies 12, South Africa 10, New Zealand 8, England 5
Hardik Pandya	New Zealand 12, Sri Lanka 10, Australia 9, Bangladesh 7
Suryakumar Yadav	England 11, New Zealand 10, West Indies 9, South Africa 8
Virat Kohli	England 10, Australia 10, West Indies 7, South Africa 4
Tilak Varma	England 7, Ireland 6, South Africa 6, West Indies 5
Rinku Singh	Zimbabwe 9, New Zealand 7, Sri Lanka 5, South Africa 4
Suresh Raina	South Africa 9, Sri Lanka 7, Pakistan 7, England 6

These distributions mostly track the fixture list rather than anything about the fielders. Rinku's nine against Zimbabwe come from a small number of tours in which India rested senior players; Raina's spread across South Africa, Sri Lanka and Pakistan reflects a decade in which those were the three sides India met most often in the format.

Three patterns in the numbers

The per-match rate has risen across eras, and the rise is real but smaller than it looks. The five leading rate-holders all debuted after 2011, and four after 2022. But India also bowl more overs of spin in the middle now and set more catching fields on the boundary, so a modern fielder is presented with more chances rather than simply taking a higher proportion of them.

Bowlers appear surprisingly high. Arshdeep Singh has 19 catches, Ravi Bishnoi 20 and Axar Patel 31. Bishnoi's rate of 0.44 is better than Rohit's and Kohli's, which is not a claim about ability so much as about where a spinner fields between overs in a modern T20 side: increasingly, in the ring rather than hidden at fine leg.

Only four India players have passed fifty T20I catches, and three of them are still playing. Dhoni's 52 has already been overtaken by Rohit's and Pandya's 60, and Suryakumar at 58 from 110 matches is the most likely to hold the record for a long stretch. The T20I fielding leaderboard turns over faster than the Test one, where positions can stand for a generation — the equivalent longer-format list is at India Test most catches.

Wider context for how India built this fielding culture sits in the history of T20 international cricket in India guide and on the cricket in India hub. Individual career records are indexed at the player directory.

Sources and method

All catching figures are computed from ball-by-ball match data in the Cricsheet archive (cricsheet.org, ODC-BY 1.0), covering 276 India men's T20Is played between 1 December 2006 and 26 July 2026. Cricsheet does not hold ball-by-ball files for a small number of India's earliest T20Is, so totals for players who began before 2009 may be marginally below those published by ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru. Dhoni's career figure is the one most affected.

Cricsheet does not label a fielder as the wicketkeeper. The keeper for each match is identified here as the recognised keeper named in India's XI, resolved by stumping credit where more than one keeper played. Catches taken by that player in that match are counted as keeper catches; everything else is counted as an outfield catch. A player such as KL Rahul, who kept in some matches and fielded in others, therefore appears in both columns.

Catches per match divides catches by matches played, not by fielding innings, and is rounded to two decimal places. It is a rate rather than a skill rating: fielding position and the bowling attack in front of a player move it more than technique does, and the text says so where a figure would otherwise mislead. Rate tables use a twenty-match minimum. Figures were computed in August 2026.