IPL playerEngland2019 to 2025
Jonny Bairstow
On scorecards: JM Bairstow · Right-hand bat
Jonny Bairstow, a wicketkeeper-batter, played six IPL seasons for three franchises.
The arrival
Jonny Bairstow arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹2.20 cr, against a base price of ₹1.50 cr. That debut came after going unsold twice (2017 and 2018).
That first season brought 10 matches and 445 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2019, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 445 runs at an average of 55.6, striking at 157.2 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 133.9, with 1 hundred and 2 fifties, and a highest score of 114.
Franchise by franchise
2019 to 2021, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2019 auction for ₹2.20 cr. 28 matches and 1,038 runs.
2022 to 2024, Punjab Kings. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹6.75 cr. 22 matches and 551 runs.
2025, Mumbai Indians. Arrived outside the auction. 2 matches and 85 runs.
3 spells with three franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2019 to 2021. 2023 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Jonny Bairstow struck at 146.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 136.0, so Jonny Bairstow scored about 10 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 68% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 173 fours and 74 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 38.6% of the balls Jonny Bairstow faced were dot balls, a higher share than 76% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 15.5 balls, and a four every 6.6.
The fielding record: 29 catches, 3 run-outs and 4 stumpings.
At the auction
Jonny Bairstow went under the hammer six times, bought twice and left unsold four times. The highest price was ₹6.75 cr, paid by Punjab Kings in 2022, more than 6 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹2.20 cr in 2019, ₹6.75 cr by 2022. Unsold in 2017, Jonny Bairstow was bought in 2019 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Jonny Bairstow made 52 IPL appearances, the last for Mumbai Indians in 2025, and won 6 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 445 | 114 | 55.6 | 157.2 | 2/1 | – | – | – | 11 | 2 | |
| 2020 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 11 | 345 | 97 | 31.4 | 126.8 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7 | 248 | 63* | 41.3 | 141.7 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Punjab Kings | 11 | 253 | 66 | 23.0 | 144.6 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Punjab Kings | 11 | 298 | 108* | 29.8 | 152.8 | 0/1 | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Mumbai Indians | 2 | 85 | 47 | 42.5 | 184.8 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2019 to 2021
- Punjab Kings: 2022 to 2024
- Mumbai Indians: 2025
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 38.6% |
| Balls per four | 6.6 |
| Balls per six | 15.5 |
| Catches | 29 |
| Run-outs | 3 |
| Stumpings | 4 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Wicketkeeper | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2018 | Wicketkeeper | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2019 | – | ₹1.50 cr | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹2.20 cr |
| 2022 | WK1 | ₹1 cr | Sold to Punjab Kings for ₹6.75 cr |
| 2025 | WK1 | ₹2 cr | Unsold |
| 2026 | WK1 | ₹1 cr | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet