Lendl Simmons

The arrival

Lendl Simmons's first IPL season was 2014, with Mumbai Indians, a signing made outside the auction. That debut came after going unsold once (2010).

That first season brought 8 matches, 394 runs and 1 wicket.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2015, for Mumbai Indians: 540 runs at an average of 45.0, striking at 122.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 132.1, with 6 fifties, and a highest score of 71. Mumbai Indians won the title that year.

One franchise

Lendl Simmons spent the whole IPL career with Mumbai Indians, from 2014 to 2017. The club won two titles with Lendl Simmons in the side: 2015 and 2017.

How the runs came

Across the career, Lendl Simmons struck at 126.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 131.2, so Lendl Simmons scored about 5 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 65% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 109 fours and 44 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 43.7% of the balls Lendl Simmons faced were dot balls, a higher share than 93% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 19.4 balls, and a four every 7.8.

The fielding record: 10 catches and 1 run-out.

At the auction

Lendl Simmons went under the hammer twice 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

Lendl Simmons made 29 IPL appearances, the last for Mumbai Indians in 2017, and won 3 player-of-the-match awards.