Lalit Yadav

The arrival

Lalit Yadav's first IPL season was 2021, with Delhi Capitals, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 7 matches, 68 runs and 4 wickets at 7.21 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2022, for Delhi Capitals: 161 runs at an average of 23.0, striking at 110.3 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 134.2, and a highest score of 48 not out.

With the ball, the best season was 2021, for Delhi Capitals: 4 wickets at 7.21 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.87, with best figures of 2 for 13.

One franchise

Lalit Yadav spent the whole IPL career with Delhi Capitals, from 2021 to 2024. Delhi Capitals bought Lalit Yadav at the auction in 2020 and 2022.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Lalit Yadav struck at 105.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 134.7, so Lalit Yadav scored about 29 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 49% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 27 fours and 7 sixes.

With the ball, 10 wickets in 289 deliveries, at 8.82 runs an over against a league rate of 8.40 for the same seasons: 0.42 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 18 catches and 2 run-outs.

At the auction

Lalit Yadav went under the hammer six times, bought twice and left unsold four times. The highest price was ₹65 lakh, paid by Delhi Capitals in 2022, more than 3 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2020, ₹65 lakh by 2022. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Delhi Capitals in 2020.

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

The legacy

Lalit Yadav made 27 IPL appearances, the last for Delhi Capitals in 2024.