IPL playerNew Zealand2015 to 2024
Kane Williamson
On scorecards: KS Williamson · Right-hand bat
Kane Williamson, a batter, played ten IPL seasons for two franchises. One title came along the way.
The arrival
Kane Williamson arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹60 lakh, against a base price of ₹50 lakh.
That first season brought 2 matches and 31 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2018, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 735 runs at an average of 52.5, striking at 142.4 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 138.1, with 8 fifties, and a highest score of 84.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2017: 256 runs at a strike rate of 151.5, 18 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2015 to 2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2015 auction for ₹60 lakh. 76 matches and 2,105 runs; captain in 2021 and 2022; champions in 2016.
2023 to 2024, Gujarat Titans. Bought at the 2023 auction for ₹2 cr. 3 matches and 27 runs.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2015 to 2022.
How the runs came
Across the career, Kane Williamson struck at 125.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 134.0, so Kane Williamson scored about 8 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 53% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 187 fours and 64 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 34.4% of the balls Kane Williamson faced were dot balls, a lower share than 64% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 26.5 balls, and a four every 9.1.
The fielding record: 40 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Kane Williamson went under the hammer four times, bought three times and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹3 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹60 lakh in 2015, ₹2 cr by 2023.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Kane Williamson made 79 IPL appearances, the last for Gujarat Titans in 2024, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 31 | 26* | 31.0 | 114.8 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2016 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 6 | 124 | 50 | 20.7 | 101.6 | 1/0 | 0 | 7.00 | - | 5 | Champions | |
| 2017 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 7 | 256 | 89 | 42.7 | 151.5 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
| 2018 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 17 | 735 | 84 | 52.5 | 142.4 | 8/0 | – | – | – | 6 | 2 | |
| 2019 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 156 | 70* | 22.3 | 120.0 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2020 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 317 | 67 | 45.3 | 133.8 | 3/0 | 0 | 12.00 | - | 6 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 270 | 66* | 45.0 | 113.5 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 7 | 1 | Captain |
| 2022 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 13 | 216 | 57 | 21.6 | 93.5 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 10 | 1 | Captain |
| 2023 | Gujarat Titans | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2024 | Gujarat Titans | 2 | 27 | 26 | 13.5 | 100.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2015 to 2022
- Gujarat Titans: 2023 to 2024
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.4% |
| Balls per four | 9.1 |
| Balls per six | 26.5 |
| Dot balls bowled | 11.1% |
| Balls per wicket | 18 |
| Catches | 40 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | – | ₹50 lakh | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹60 lakh |
| 2018 | M2 | ₹1.50 cr | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹3 cr |
| 2023 | BA1 | ₹2 cr | Sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹2 cr |
| 2025 | BA2 | ₹2 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