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IPL playerSri Lanka2025 to 2026

Eshan Malinga

On scorecards: E Malinga · Right-hand bat

2
Seasons
22
Matches
7
Runs
SR 41.2
33
Wickets
econ 9.20
0
Titles
1
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2025 to 2026 · Sources

Eshan Malinga, a bowler, has played two IPL seasons, both with Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The arrival

Eshan Malinga arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹1.20 cr, against a base price of ₹30 lakh.

That first season brought 7 matches and 13 wickets at 8.92 an over.

The peak

The best season was 2026, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 20 wickets at 9.33 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.73, with best figures of 4 for 32.

One franchise

Eshan Malinga has spent the whole IPL career with Sunrisers Hyderabad, from 2025 to 2026.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 33 wickets in 486 deliveries, at 9.20 runs an over against a league rate of 9.65 for the same seasons: 0.45 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time. There was one four-wicket haul, and the best figures were 4 for 32.

The fielding record: 5 catches and 4 run-outs.

At the auction

Eshan Malinga has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹1.20 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2025, more than 4 times the base price.

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

Where it stands

Eshan Malinga has made 22 IPL appearances, the latest for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2026, and has won 1 player-of-the-match award.

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
2025Sunrisers Hyderabad70–––0/0138.923/311
2026Sunrisers Hyderabad15757.041.20/0209.334/3241

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 faced58.8%
Balls per four17
Balls per six17
Dot balls bowled34.4%
Balls per wicket14.7
Catches5
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
2025ACC₹30 lakhSold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹1.20 cr

Sources