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IPL playerIndia2020 to 2026

Devdutt Padikkal

On scorecards: D Padikkal · Right-hand bat

7
Seasons
90
Matches
2,270
Runs
SR 133.1
0
Wickets
2
Titles
2
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2020 to 2026 · Sources

Devdutt Padikkal, a batter, has played seven IPL seasons for three franchises. Two titles came along the way.

The arrival

Devdutt Padikkal's first IPL season was 2020, with Royal Challengers Bangalore, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 15 matches and 473 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2020, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 473 runs at an average of 31.5, striking at 124.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 131.8, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 74. There were three seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2020, 2021 and 2026).

Franchise by franchise

2020 to 2021, Royal Challengers Bangalore. 29 matches and 884 runs.

2022 to 2023, Rajasthan Royals. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹7.75 cr. 28 matches and 637 runs.

2024, Lucknow Super Giants. Arrived outside the auction. 7 matches and 38 runs.

2025 to 2026, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, second time round. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹2 cr. 26 matches and 711 runs; champions in 2025 and 2026.

4 spells with three franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2020 to 2021.

How the runs came

Across the career, Devdutt Padikkal has struck at 133.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 139.1, so Devdutt Padikkal has scored about 6 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 64% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 241 fours and 80 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 38.2% of the balls Devdutt Padikkal faced were dot balls, a higher share than 72% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 21.3 balls, and a four every 7.1.

The fielding record: 42 catches and 3 run-outs.

At the auction

Devdutt Padikkal has gone under the hammer three times. The highest price was ₹7.75 cr, paid by Rajasthan Royals in 2022, more than 5 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2019, ₹2 cr by 2025. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2019.

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

Where it stands

Devdutt Padikkal has made 90 IPL appearances, the latest for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2026, and has won 2 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
2020Royal Challengers Bangalore154737431.5124.85/0–––8
2021Royal Challengers Bangalore14411101*31.6125.31/1–––71
2022Rajasthan Royals173765422.1122.91/0–––5
2023Rajasthan Royals112615226.1130.52/0–––41
2024Lucknow Super Giants738135.471.70/0–––4
2025Royal Challengers Bengaluru102476127.4150.62/0–––1Champions
2026Royal Challengers Bengaluru164646133.1168.73/0–––13Champions

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 faced38.2%
Balls per four7.1
Balls per six21.3
Catches42
Run-outs3
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
2019–₹20 lakhSold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹20 lakh
2022BA1₹1.50 crSold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹7.75 cr
2025BA1₹2 crSold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹2 cr

Sources