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IPL playerWest Indies2012 to 2025

Andre Russell

On scorecards: AD Russell · Right-hand bat

13
Seasons
139
Matches
2,655
Runs
SR 174.1
123
Wickets
econ 9.44
2
Titles
16
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2012 to 2025 · Sources

Andre Russell, an all-rounder, played thirteen IPL seasons for two franchises. Two titles came along the way.

The arrival

Andre Russell arrived through the auction: Delhi Daredevils paid ₹2.25 cr (US$450k), against a base price of ₹25 lakh.

That first season brought 4 matches, 47 runs and 1 wicket at 9.96 an over. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2019, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 514 runs at an average of 51.4, striking at 204.0 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 133.9, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 80 not out.

With the ball, the best season was 2024, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 19 wickets at 10.06 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.37, with best figures of 3 for 19. Kolkata Knight Riders won the title that year. Three seasons brought 15 wickets or more (2016, 2022 and 2024).

Franchise by franchise

2012 to 2013, Delhi Daredevils. Bought at the 2012 auction for ₹2.25 cr. 7 matches, 58 runs and 1 wicket.

2014 to 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders. Bought at the 2014 auction for ₹60 lakh. 132 matches, 2,597 runs and 122 wickets; champions in 2014 and 2024.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Kolkata Knight Riders, 2014 to 2025. 2017 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Andre Russell struck at 174.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 136.5, so Andre Russell scored about 38 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 79% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 187 fours and 223 sixes, the 10th-most sixes in IPL history.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 39.3% of the balls Andre Russell faced were dot balls, a higher share than 80% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 6.8 balls, the best rate in that whole group, and a four every 8.2.

With the ball, 123 wickets in 1,819 deliveries, at 9.44 runs an over against a league rate of 8.40 for the same seasons: 1.05 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often. There were three four-wicket hauls, and the best figures were 5 for 15.

33.9% of the balls Andre Russell bowled were dots, a lower share than 58% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 14.7 balls.

The fielding record: 36 catches and 4 run-outs.

At the auction

Andre Russell went under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹2.25 cr (US$450k), paid by Delhi Daredevils in 2012, more than 9 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2014, cost ₹60 lakh.

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

The legacy

On the all-time IPL lists, among 810 players, Andre Russell finished 22nd for wickets, 10th for sixes and 10th for player-of-the-match awards.

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
2012Delhi Daredevils4473123.5180.80/019.961/510
2013Delhi Daredevils31175.578.60/009.71-1
2014Kolkata Knight Riders2211.025.00/0110.061/250Champions
2015Kolkata Knight Riders133266636.2192.93/0147.933/3253
2016Kolkata Knight Riders1218839*26.9164.90/0157.974/2013
2018Kolkata Knight Riders1631688*28.7184.81/0139.343/3181
2019Kolkata Knight Riders1451480*51.4204.04/0119.512/2144
2020Kolkata Knight Riders101172513.0144.40/069.552/291
2021Kolkata Knight Riders101835426.1152.51/0119.895/152
2022Kolkata Knight Riders1433570*37.2174.51/0179.814/511
2023Kolkata Knight Riders142274220.6145.50/0710.983/2261
2024Kolkata Knight Riders1422264*31.7185.01/01910.063/1932Champions
2025Kolkata Knight Riders1316757*18.6163.71/0811.632/2141

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 faced39.3%
Balls per four8.2
Balls per six6.8
Dot balls bowled33.9%
Balls per wicket14.7
Catches36
Run-outs4
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
2012–₹25 lakhSold to Delhi Daredevils for ₹2.25 cr (US$450k)
2014AL2₹50 lakhSold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹60 lakh

Sources