IPL playerEngland2016 to 2023
Chris Jordan
On scorecards: CJ Jordan · Right-hand bat
Chris Jordan, a bowler, played seven IPL seasons for five franchises.
The arrival
Chris Jordan's first IPL season was 2016, with Royal Challengers Bangalore, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 9 matches, 3 runs and 11 wickets at 9.11 an over. It would stay the best season of the career with the ball.
The peak
The best season was 2016, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 11 wickets at 9.11 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.15, with best figures of 4 for 11.
Franchise by franchise
2016, Royal Challengers Bangalore. 9 matches and 11 wickets.
2017 to 2018, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2017 auction for ₹50 lakh. 2 matches and 1 wicket.
2020 to 2021, Kings XI Punjab. Bought at the 2020 auction for ₹3 cr. 13 matches and 13 wickets.
2022, Chennai Super Kings. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹3.60 cr. 4 matches and 2 wickets.
2023, Mumbai Indians. Arrived outside the auction. 6 matches and 3 wickets.
5 spells with five franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2017 to 2018. 2019 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.
How the wickets came
With the ball, 30 wickets in 679 deliveries, at 9.55 runs an over against a league rate of 8.28 for the same seasons: 1.27 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time. There was one four-wicket haul, and the best figures were 4 for 11.
30.6% of the balls Chris Jordan bowled were dots, a lower share than 91% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 22.5 balls.
The fielding record: 14 catches and 2 run-outs.
At the auction
Chris Jordan went under the hammer seven times, bought four times and left unsold three times. The highest price was ₹3.60 cr, paid by Chennai Super Kings in 2022. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹50 lakh in 2017, ₹3.60 cr by 2022.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Chris Jordan made 34 IPL appearances, the last for Mumbai Indians in 2023, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3.0 | 75.0 | 0/0 | 11 | 9.11 | 4/11 | 3 | ||
| 2017 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | – | 0/0 | 1 | 9.00 | 1/9 | 1 | ||
| 2018 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 0 | 7.75 | - | 0 | ||
| 2020 | Kings XI Punjab | 9 | 29 | 13 | 9.7 | 93.5 | 0/0 | 9 | 9.64 | 3/17 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Punjab Kings | 4 | 32 | 30 | 16.0 | 152.4 | 0/0 | 4 | 8.00 | 2/20 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Chennai Super Kings | 4 | 11 | 6* | 11.0 | 137.5 | 0/0 | 2 | 10.25 | 2/23 | 4 | ||
| 2023 | Mumbai Indians | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3.0 | 50.0 | 0/0 | 3 | 10.77 | 1/7 | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2016
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2017 to 2018
- Kings XI Punjab: 2020 to 2021
- Chennai Super Kings: 2022
- Mumbai Indians: 2023
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 44.2% |
| Balls per four | 25.7 |
| Balls per six | 25.7 |
| Dot balls bowled | 30.6% |
| Balls per wicket | 22.5 |
| Catches | 14 |
| Run-outs | 2 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | – | ₹50 lakh | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹50 lakh |
| 2018 | AL3 | ₹1 cr | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹1 cr |
| 2020 | AL3 | ₹75 lakh | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹3 cr |
| 2022 | – | ₹2 cr | Sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹3.60 cr |
| 2023 | FA1 | ₹2 cr | Unsold |
| 2024 | FA2 | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2025 | FA9 | ₹2 cr | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet