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IPL playerIndia2022 to 2025

Akash Deep

Right-hand bat

4
Seasons
14
Matches
25
Runs
SR 208.3
10
Wickets
econ 11.66
0
Titles
0
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2022 to 2025 · Sources

Akash Deep, a bowler, played four IPL seasons for two franchises.

The arrival

Akash Deep arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹20 lakh, the base price. That debut came after going unsold once (2019).

That first season brought 5 matches and 5 wickets at 10.70 an over. It would stay the best season of the career with the ball.

The peak

The best season was 2022, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 5 wickets at 10.70 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.36, with best figures of 3 for 45.

Franchise by franchise

2022 to 2024, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹20 lakh. 8 matches and 7 wickets.

2025, Lucknow Super Giants. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹8 cr. 6 matches and 3 wickets.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2022 to 2024.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 10 wickets in 282 deliveries, at 11.66 runs an over against a league rate of 8.94 for the same seasons: 2.72 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 2 catches.

At the auction

Akash Deep went under the hammer four times, bought three times and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹8 cr, paid by Lucknow Super Giants in 2025, more than 8 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2022, ₹1 cr by 2026. Unsold in 2019, Akash Deep was bought in 2022 by Royal Challengers Bangalore. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2026.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Akash Deep made 14 IPL appearances, the last for Lucknow Super Giants in 2025.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each IPL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
SeasonTeamMRunsHSAvgSR50/100WktsEconBestCtPOTM
2022Royal Challengers Bangalore5000.0–0/0510.703/451
2023Royal Challengers Bangalore2171717.0212.50/0111.061/291
2024Royal Challengers Bengaluru122*–100.00/0115.711/550
2025Lucknow Super Giants666*6.0300.00/0312.052/550

Franchise journey

Ball-by-ball detail

Career totals from ball-by-ball data, not split by season; included only where they agree exactly with the runs and wickets on this page.
MetricValue
Dot balls faced35.7%
Balls per four7
Balls per six7
Dot balls bowled32%
Balls per wicket27.8
Catches2
Run-outs0
Stumpings0

At the auction

From the IPL auction archive; prices in lakh and crore of rupees, with the US dollar price for the auctions that were conducted in dollars (2008 to 2013).
AuctionSetBase priceResult
2019Fast Bowler₹20 lakhUnsold
2022UFA1₹20 lakhSold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹20 lakh
2025FA2₹1 crSold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹8 cr
2026FA1₹1 crSold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹1 cr

Sources