IPL playerIndia2020 to 2026
Abdul Samad
Right-hand bat
Abdul Samad, a batter, has played seven IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Abdul Samad arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.
That first season brought 12 matches, 113 runs and 1 wicket.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2024, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 182 runs at an average of 18.2, striking at 168.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, and a highest score of 37 not out.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2025: 164 runs at a strike rate of 176.3, 23 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2020 to 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2020 auction for ₹20 lakh. 50 matches, 579 runs and 2 wickets.
2025 to 2026, Lucknow Super Giants. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹4.20 cr. 21 matches and 280 runs.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2020 to 2024.
How the runs came
Across the career, Abdul Samad has struck at 148.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 144.0, so Abdul Samad has scored about 5 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 64% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 55 fours and 55 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 34.3% of the balls Abdul Samad faced were dot balls, a lower share than 66% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 10.5 balls, the 11th-best rate in that group, and a four every 10.5.
The fielding record: 33 catches.
At the auction
Abdul Samad has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹4.20 cr, paid by Lucknow Super Giants in 2025, more than 14 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2020, ₹4.20 cr by 2025.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Abdul Samad has made 71 IPL appearances, the latest for Lucknow Super Giants in 2026.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 113 | 33 | 18.8 | 168.7 | 0/0 | 1 | 13.71 | 1/41 | 5 | ||
| 2021 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 11 | 111 | 28 | 12.3 | 127.6 | 0/0 | 1 | 9.00 | 1/9 | 8 | ||
| 2022 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2.0 | 57.1 | 0/0 | 0 | 8.00 | - | 1 | ||
| 2023 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 169 | 37* | 42.3 | 132.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 4 | ||
| 2024 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 16 | 182 | 37* | 18.2 | 168.5 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 9 | ||
| 2025 | Lucknow Super Giants | 13 | 164 | 45 | 20.5 | 176.3 | 0/0 | 0 | 18.00 | - | 4 | ||
| 2026 | Lucknow Super Giants | 8 | 116 | 37* | 19.3 | 131.8 | 0/0 | 0 | 36.00 | - | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2020 to 2024
- Lucknow Super Giants: 2025 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.3% |
| Balls per four | 10.5 |
| Balls per six | 10.5 |
| Dot balls bowled | 21.1% |
| Balls per wicket | 28.5 |
| Catches | 33 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet