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IPL playerIndia2023 to 2026

Mukesh Kumar

Right-hand bat

4
Seasons
42
Matches
10
Runs
SR 55.5
42
Wickets
econ 10.51
0
Titles
1
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2023 to 2026 · Sources

Mukesh Kumar, a bowler, has played four IPL seasons, all of them with Delhi Capitals.

The arrival

Mukesh Kumar arrived through the auction: Delhi Capitals paid ₹5.50 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.

That first season brought 10 matches, 7 runs and 7 wickets at 10.46 an over.

The peak

The best season was 2024, for Delhi Capitals: 17 wickets at 10.22 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.37, with best figures of 3 for 14.

One franchise

Mukesh Kumar has spent the whole IPL career with Delhi Capitals, from 2023 to 2026. Delhi Capitals went back to the auction to buy Mukesh Kumar again in 2025 for ₹8 cr.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 42 wickets in 831 deliveries, at 10.51 runs an over against a league rate of 9.35 for the same seasons: 1.15 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often. There was one four-wicket haul, and the best figures were 4 for 33.

32.8% of the balls Mukesh Kumar bowled were dots, a lower share than 70% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 19.6 balls.

The fielding record: 7 catches and 4 run-outs.

At the auction

Mukesh Kumar has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹8 cr, paid by Delhi Capitals in 2025, more than 4 times the base price.

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

Where it stands

Mukesh Kumar has made 42 IPL appearances, the latest for Delhi Capitals in 2026, and has won 1 player-of-the-match award.

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
2023Delhi Capitals1076*–77.80/0710.462/301
2024Delhi Capitals10333.033.30/01710.223/143
2025Delhi Capitals120–––0/01210.244/3311
2026Delhi Capitals100–––0/0611.212/262

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 faced44.4%
Balls per four18
Balls per six18
Dot balls bowled32.8%
Balls per wicket19.6
Catches7
Run-outs4
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
2023UFA1₹20 lakhSold to Delhi Capitals for ₹5.50 cr
2025FA2₹2 crSold to Delhi Capitals for ₹8 cr

Sources