IPL playerIndia2013 to 2023
Manan Vohra
On scorecards: M Vohra · Right-hand bat
Manan Vohra, a batter, played nine IPL seasons for four franchises. In nine seasons the title never came.
The arrival
Manan Vohra's first IPL season was 2013, with Kings XI Punjab, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 12 matches and 161 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2014, for Kings XI Punjab: 324 runs at an average of 40.5, striking at 139.1 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 67.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2013: 161 runs at a strike rate of 137.6, 16 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2013 to 2017, Kings XI Punjab. 45 matches and 957 runs.
2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹1.10 cr. 4 matches and 55 runs.
2021, Rajasthan Royals. Arrived outside the auction. 4 matches and 42 runs.
2022 to 2023, Lucknow Super Giants. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹20 lakh. 3 matches and 29 runs.
4 spells with four franchises in all. The longest was with Kings XI Punjab, 2013 to 2017. 2019 and 2020 are missing from the record: seasons without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Manan Vohra struck at 130.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 130.2, so the scoring rate tracked the league's almost exactly. 62% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 104 fours and 43 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 43.2% of the balls Manan Vohra faced were dot balls, a higher share than 91% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 19.3 balls, and a four every 8.
The fielding record: 13 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Manan Vohra went under the hammer seven times, bought three times and left unsold four times. The highest price was ₹1.10 cr, paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2018, more than 5 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2022, cost ₹20 lakh. Unsold in 2019, Manan Vohra was bought again in 2019 by Rajasthan Royals. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Rajasthan Royals in 2019.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Manan Vohra made 56 IPL appearances, the last for Lucknow Super Giants in 2023, and won 3 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Kings XI Punjab | 12 | 161 | 43* | 20.1 | 137.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2014 | Kings XI Punjab | 8 | 324 | 67 | 40.5 | 139.1 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2015 | Kings XI Punjab | 7 | 82 | 39 | 11.7 | 101.2 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2016 | Kings XI Punjab | 7 | 161 | 51 | 23.0 | 122.9 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2017 | Kings XI Punjab | 11 | 229 | 95 | 25.4 | 144.0 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 2 | ||
| 2018 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 4 | 55 | 45 | 13.8 | 117.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2021 | Rajasthan Royals | 4 | 42 | 14 | 10.5 | 107.7 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Lucknow Super Giants | 2 | 19 | 19 | 19.0 | 172.7 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023 | Lucknow Super Giants | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10.0 | 90.9 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Kings XI Punjab: 2013 to 2017
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2018
- Rajasthan Royals: 2021
- Lucknow Super Giants: 2022 to 2023
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 43.2% |
| Balls per four | 8 |
| Balls per six | 19.3 |
| Catches | 13 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | UBA1 | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹1.10 cr |
| 2019 | Batter | ₹20 lakh | Unsold |
| 2019 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹20 lakh |
| 2022 | UBA2 | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹20 lakh |
| 2024 | UBA1 | ₹20 lakh | Unsold |
| 2025 | UBA5 | ₹30 lakh | Unsold |
| 2026 | UBA2 | ₹30 lakh | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet