Skip to content
FairPlay
Temba Bavuma

Cricket player · Middle-order batter · South Africa

Temba Bavuma

Temba Bavuma appears in 15 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (14 Nov 2025 to 27 Oct 2026). 639 runs in 17 innings. 186 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.

Player profile

Country
South Africa
Role
Middle-order batter
Batting
Right-hand bat
Bowling
Right-arm fast-medium
Born
17 May 1990 Age 36
Recorded matches
186132 internationals

Temba Bavuma is a middle-order batter from South Africa with 186 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 132 internationals (35 Tests, 62 ODIs, 35 T20Is).

Batting: 6,541 runs across all recorded formats, with 11 hundreds and 28 fifties; the most runs came in Test cricket (2,368) and the highest recorded score is 179.

Bowling: 1 wicket in recorded matches, 1 of them in T20I cricket.

Career figures by format

Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.

Temba Bavuma: batting and bowling figures by format in FairPlay's recorded data
FormatMatInnsRunsHSAvgSR100/50WktsBowl avgEcon5w
Test35652,36817940.8349.14/130–36.000
ODI62612,29914440.3388.06/90–3.570
T20I35356707220.94118.20/1111.0011.000
T20 (league and domestic)54481,20410430.10125.51/5––––

Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.

Temba Bavuma at a glance

FairPlay holds 15 complete scorecards featuring Temba Bavuma, most recently for South Africa (T20 and shorter, one-day, first-class).

In those matches Temba Bavuma batted 17 times for 639 runs at a strike rate of 58.84. The highest score was 179 off 334 balls against Australia.

How the 16 dismissals happened: caught 13, bowled 3.

These matches were played at 9 different grounds.

Figures in FairPlay's scorecards

Batting
17163917939.9458.841/2
Bowling
Did not bowl in these matches.

Match by match

Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.

DateMatch
27 Oct 2026South Africa v AustraliaBat 0 (3) & 35 (115) · Bowl –
18 Oct 2026South Africa v AustraliaBat 179 (334) · Bowl –
9 Oct 2026South Africa v AustraliaBat 3 (27) & 1 (18) · Bowl –
27 Sept 2026South Africa v AustraliaBat 103 (116) · Bowl –
24 Sept 2026South Africa v AustraliaBat 30 (48) · Bowl –
14 Jun 2026Antwerp Anchors v Ghent GladiatorsBat 28 (17) · Bowl –
13 Jun 2026Antwerp Anchors v Ghent GladiatorsBat 16 (12) · Bowl –
10 Jun 2026Ghent Gladiators v Liège Red LionsBat – · Bowl –
10 Jun 2026Ghent Gladiators v Akcel United BrusselsBat – · Bowl –
7 Jun 2026JB Bruges v Ghent GladiatorsBat 33 (22) · Bowl –
6 Jun 2026Liège Red Lions v Ghent GladiatorsBat 15 (9) · Bowl –
6 Dec 2025India v South AfricaBat 48 (67) · Bowl –
3 Dec 2025India v South AfricaBat 46 (48) · Bowl –
22 Nov 2025India v South AfricaBat 41 (92) & 3 (11) · Bowl –
14 Nov 2025India v South AfricaBat 3 (11) & 55* (136) · Bowl –

More players from South Africa

All South Africa players