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IPL playerSouth Africa2008 to 2011

Mark Boucher

On scorecards: MV Boucher · Right-hand bat

4
Seasons
31
Matches
394
Runs
SR 127.5
0
Wickets
0
Titles
2
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2008 to 2011 · Sources

Mark Boucher, a wicketkeeper-batter, played four IPL seasons for two franchises.

The arrival

Mark Boucher arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹1.80 cr (US$450k), against a base price of ₹80 lakh, at the very first IPL auction.

That first season brought 10 matches and 225 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2008, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 225 runs at an average of 32.1, striking at 127.1 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 50 not out.

Franchise by franchise

2008 to 2010, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2008 auction for ₹1.80 cr. 27 matches and 388 runs.

2011, Kolkata Knight Riders. Arrived outside the auction. 4 matches and 6 runs.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2008 to 2010.

How the runs came

Across the career, Mark Boucher struck at 127.5. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 124.3, so Mark Boucher scored about 3 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 52% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 32 fours and 13 sixes.

The fielding record: 14 catches, 7 run-outs and 3 stumpings.

At the auction

Mark Boucher went under the hammer three times, bought once and left unsold twice. The price was ₹1.80 cr (US$450k), paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008.

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

The legacy

Mark Boucher made 31 IPL appearances, the last for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2011, and won 2 player-of-the-match awards.

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
2008Royal Challengers Bangalore1022550*32.1127.11/0–––41
2009Royal Challengers Bangalore1215048*30.0129.30/0–––71
2010Royal Challengers Bangalore51311*13.0130.00/0–––5
2011Kolkata Knight Riders4656.0100.00/0–––1

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 faced34.6%
Balls per four9.7
Balls per six23.8
Catches14
Run-outs7
Stumpings3

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
2008Set E₹80 lakhSold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹1.80 cr (US$450k)
2011Wicketkeeper₹1.35 crUnsold
2012Wicketkeeper₹1 crUnsold

Sources