IPL playerAustralia2008 to 2011
Andrew Symonds
On scorecards: A Symonds · Right-hand bat
Andrew Symonds, a batter, played four IPL seasons for two franchises. One title came along the way.
The arrival
Andrew Symonds arrived through the auction: Deccan Chargers paid ₹5.40 cr (US$1.35m), against a base price of ₹1 cr, at the very first IPL auction.
That first season brought 4 matches and 161 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2010, for Deccan Chargers: 429 runs at an average of 30.6, striking at 125.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.0, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 54.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2009: 249 runs at a strike rate of 150.0, 33 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
With the ball, the best season was 2010, for Deccan Chargers: 12 wickets at 7.02 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.91, with best figures of 3 for 21.
Franchise by franchise
2008 to 2010, Deccan Chargers. Bought at the 2008 auction for ₹5.40 cr. 28 matches, 839 runs and 19 wickets; champions in 2009.
2011, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2011 auction for ₹3.83 cr. 11 matches, 135 runs and 1 wicket.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Deccan Chargers, 2008 to 2010.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, Andrew Symonds struck at 129.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 123.9, so Andrew Symonds scored about 6 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 56% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 74 fours and 41 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 36.4% of the balls Andrew Symonds faced were dot balls, a higher share than 53% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 18.3 balls, and a four every 10.1.
With the ball, 20 wickets in 528 deliveries, at 7.66 runs an over against a league rate of 7.73 for the same seasons, right on the going rate.
36.1% of the balls Andrew Symonds bowled were dots, a higher share than 61% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 26.4 balls.
The fielding record: 20 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Andrew Symonds went under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹5.40 cr (US$1.35m), paid by Deccan Chargers in 2008, more than 5 times the base price.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Andrew Symonds made 39 IPL appearances, the last for Mumbai Indians in 2011, and won 3 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Deccan Chargers | 4 | 161 | 117* | 80.5 | 153.3 | 0/1 | 0 | 14.43 | - | 3 | ||
| 2009 | Deccan Chargers | 8 | 249 | 60* | 35.6 | 150.0 | 1/0 | 7 | 6.67 | 2/18 | 1 | Champions | |
| 2010 | Deccan Chargers | 16 | 429 | 54 | 30.6 | 125.8 | 4/0 | 12 | 7.02 | 3/21 | 11 | 3 | |
| 2011 | Mumbai Indians | 11 | 135 | 44* | 33.8 | 97.8 | 0/0 | 1 | 10.25 | 1/11 | 5 |
Franchise journey
- Deccan Chargers: 2008 to 2010
- Mumbai Indians: 2011
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 36.4% |
| Balls per four | 10.1 |
| Balls per six | 18.3 |
| Dot balls bowled | 36.1% |
| Balls per wicket | 26.4 |
| Catches | 20 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| 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