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Hashim Amla

On scorecards: HM Amla · Right-hand bat

2
Seasons
16
Matches
577
Runs
SR 141.7
0
Wickets
0
Titles
2
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2016 to 2017 · Sources

Hashim Amla, a batter, played two IPL seasons, both with Kings XI Punjab.

The arrival

Hashim Amla's first IPL season was 2016, with Kings XI Punjab, a signing made outside the auction. That debut came after going unsold once (2015).

That first season brought 6 matches and 157 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2017, for Kings XI Punjab: 420 runs at an average of 60.0, striking at 145.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 133.4, with 2 hundreds and 2 fifties, and a highest score of 104 not out.

One franchise

Hashim Amla spent the whole IPL career with Kings XI Punjab, from 2016 to 2017.

How the runs came

Across the career, Hashim Amla struck at 141.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 132.9, so Hashim Amla scored about 9 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 63% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 60 fours and 21 sixes.

At the auction

Hashim Amla went under the hammer four times and was never bought.

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

The legacy

Hashim Amla made 16 IPL appearances, the last for Kings XI Punjab in 2017, and 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
2016Kings XI Punjab61579626.2131.91/0–––01
2017Kings XI Punjab10420104*60.0145.82/2–––01

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 faced34.2%
Balls per four6.8
Balls per six19.4

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
2015Marquee₹2 crUnsold
2016Batter₹2 crUnsold
2018Batter₹1.50 crUnsold
2019Batter₹1 crUnsold

Sources