Hardik Pandya

The arrival

Hardik Pandya arrived through the auction: Mumbai Indians paid ₹10 lakh, the base price.

That first season brought 9 matches, 112 runs and 1 wicket at 10.25 an over, and ended with Mumbai Indians as champions. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2022, for Gujarat Titans: 487 runs at an average of 44.3, striking at 131.3 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 134.2, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 87 not out. Gujarat Titans won the title that year. It came in a season as captain. There were two seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2019 and 2022).

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2019: 409 runs at a strike rate of 192.9, 59 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

With the ball, the best season was 2018, for Mumbai Indians: 18 wickets at 8.89 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.50, with best figures of 3 for 24.

Franchise by franchise

2015 to 2021, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2015 auction for ₹10 lakh. 92 matches, 1,485 runs and 42 wickets; champions in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

2022 to 2023, Gujarat Titans. Arrived outside the auction. 31 matches, 833 runs and 11 wickets; captain in 2022 and 2023; champions in 2022.

2024 to 2026, Mumbai Indians, second time round. Back outside the auction. 39 matches, 646 runs and 29 wickets; captain in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

3 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Mumbai Indians, 2015 to 2021.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Hardik Pandya has struck at 146.4. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 138.8, so Hardik Pandya has scored about 8 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 63% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 228 fours and 157 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 33.1% of the balls Hardik Pandya faced were dot balls, a lower share than 78% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 12.9 balls, and a four every 8.9.

With the ball, 82 wickets in 1,774 deliveries, at 9.30 runs an over against a league rate of 8.73 for the same seasons: 0.57 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time. There was one four-wicket haul, and the best figures were 5 for 36.

33.1% of the balls Hardik Pandya bowled were dots, a lower share than 68% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 21.5 balls.

The fielding record: 68 catches and 7 run-outs.

At the auction

Hardik Pandya has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹10 lakh, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2015.

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

Where it stands

Hardik Pandya has made 162 IPL appearances, the latest for Mumbai Indians in 2026, and has won 8 player-of-the-match awards.