IPL playerAustralia2026
Cooper Connolly
On scorecards: C Connolly · Right-hand bat
Cooper Connolly, a batter, spent a single IPL season with Punjab Kings, 2026: 14 matches, 491 runs.
The arrival
Cooper Connolly arrived through the auction: Punjab Kings paid ₹3 cr, against a base price of ₹2 cr. That debut came after going unsold once (2025).
That first season brought 14 matches and 491 runs.
How the runs came
Across the career, Cooper Connolly has struck at 163.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 156.5, so Cooper Connolly has scored about 7 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 74% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 43 fours and 32 sixes.
The fielding record: 4 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Cooper Connolly has gone under the hammer twice, bought once and left unsold once. The price was ₹3 cr, paid by Punjab Kings in 2026. Unsold in 2025, Cooper Connolly was bought in 2026 by Punjab Kings.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Cooper Connolly has made 14 IPL appearances, the latest for Punjab Kings in 2026, and has won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Punjab Kings | 14 | 491 | 107* | 44.6 | 163.1 | 2/1 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Punjab Kings: 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 36.2% |
| Balls per four | 7 |
| Balls per six | 9.4 |
| Catches | 4 |
| 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