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IPL playerIndia2024 to 2026

Manimaran Siddharth

On scorecards: M Siddharth · Right-hand bat

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Seasons
9
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Runs
9
Wickets
econ 8.98
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Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2024 to 2026 · Sources

Manimaran Siddharth, a bowler, has played three IPL seasons, all of them with Lucknow Super Giants.

The arrival

Manimaran Siddharth arrived through the auction: Lucknow Super Giants paid ₹2.40 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh. That debut came after going unsold twice (2022 and 2023).

That first season brought 3 matches and 1 wicket.

The peak

The best season was 2026, for Lucknow Super Giants: 6 wickets at 9.67 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.73, with best figures of 2 for 35.

One franchise

Manimaran Siddharth has spent the whole IPL career with Lucknow Super Giants, from 2024 to 2026. Lucknow Super Giants went back to the auction to buy Manimaran Siddharth again in 2025 for ₹75 lakh.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 9 wickets in 189 deliveries, at 8.98 runs an over against a league rate of 9.57 for the same seasons: 0.58 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time, the mark of a bowler who kept things tight.

The fielding record: 3 catches.

At the auction

Manimaran Siddharth has gone under the hammer six times, bought four times and left unsold twice. The highest price was ₹2.40 cr, paid by Lucknow Super Giants in 2024, more than 12 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2020, ₹75 lakh by 2025. Unsold in 2022, Manimaran Siddharth was bought again in 2024 by Lucknow Super Giants. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2020 and Delhi Capitals in 2021.

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

Where it stands

Manimaran Siddharth has made 9 IPL appearances, the latest for Lucknow Super Giants in 2026.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each IPL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
SeasonTeamMRunsHSAvgSR50/100WktsEconBestCtPOTM
2024Lucknow Super Giants30–––0/017.471/210
2025Lucknow Super Giants20–––0/029.572/391
2026Lucknow Super Giants40–––0/069.672/352

Franchise journey

Ball-by-ball detail

Career totals from ball-by-ball data, not split by season; included only where they agree exactly with the runs and wickets on this page.
MetricValue
Dot balls bowled31.7%
Balls per wicket20.7
Catches3
Run-outs0
Stumpings0

At the auction

From the IPL auction archive; prices in lakh and crore of rupees, with the US dollar price for the auctions that were conducted in dollars (2008 to 2013).
AuctionSetBase priceResult
2020USP1₹20 lakhSold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹20 lakh
2021USP1₹20 lakhSold to Delhi Capitals for ₹20 lakh
2022–₹20 lakhUnsold
2023UAL3₹20 lakhUnsold
2024USP1₹20 lakhSold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2.40 cr
2025ACC₹30 lakhSold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹75 lakh

Sources