IPL playerIndia2012 to 2020
Gurkeerat Singh
Right-hand bat
Gurkeerat Singh, a wicketkeeper-batter, played seven IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Gurkeerat Singh's first IPL season was 2012, with Kings XI Punjab, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 5 matches and 86 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2016, for Kings XI Punjab: 113 runs at an average of 22.6, striking at 131.4 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 131.5, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 51.
Franchise by franchise
2012 to 2017, Kings XI Punjab. 30 matches, 342 runs and 5 wickets.
2019 to 2020, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2019 auction for ₹50 lakh. 11 matches and 169 runs.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Kings XI Punjab, 2012 to 2017. 2014 and 2018 are missing from the record: seasons without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Gurkeerat Singh struck at 121.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 128.8, so Gurkeerat Singh scored about 8 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 56% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 55 fours and 11 sixes.
The fielding record: 20 catches, 1 run-out and 1 stumping.
At the auction
Gurkeerat Singh went under the hammer six times, bought four times and left unsold twice. The highest price was ₹1.30 cr, paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2014, more than 6 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2022, cost ₹50 lakh. Unsold in 2021, Gurkeerat Singh was bought again in 2022 by Gujarat Titans. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Kings XI Punjab in 2014, Delhi Daredevils in 2018 and Gujarat Titans in 2022.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Gurkeerat Singh made 41 IPL appearances, the last for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2020.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Kings XI Punjab | 5 | 86 | 29* | 28.7 | 165.4 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2013 | Kings XI Punjab | 11 | 108 | 31 | 13.5 | 113.7 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2015 | Kings XI Punjab | 5 | 35 | 15 | 7.0 | 89.7 | 0/0 | 3 | 7.33 | 2/17 | 1 | ||
| 2016 | Kings XI Punjab | 7 | 113 | 51 | 22.6 | 131.4 | 1/0 | 2 | 7.75 | 2/15 | 5 | ||
| 2017 | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2019 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 3 | 98 | 65 | 32.7 | 140.0 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2020 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 | 71 | 21* | – | 88.8 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 6 |
Franchise journey
- Kings XI Punjab: 2012 to 2017
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2019 to 2020
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 37% |
| Balls per four | 7.7 |
| Balls per six | 38.4 |
| Dot balls bowled | 33.3% |
| Balls per wicket | 15.6 |
| Catches | 20 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 1 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | UBA1 | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹1.30 cr |
| 2018 | AL2 | ₹50 lakh | Sold to Delhi Daredevils for ₹75 lakh |
| 2019 | – | ₹50 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹50 lakh |
| 2021 | – | ₹50 lakh | Unsold |
| 2022 | – | ₹50 lakh | Sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹50 lakh |
| 2023 | BA3 | ₹50 lakh | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet