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IPL playerIndia2024 to 2026

Naman Dhir

Right-hand bat

3
Seasons
37
Matches
710
Runs
SR 164.0
0
Wickets
econ 8.77
0
Titles
0
Player of the match

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

Naman Dhir, a batter, has played three IPL seasons, all of them with Mumbai Indians.

The arrival

Naman Dhir arrived through the auction: Mumbai Indians paid ₹20 lakh, the base price. That debut came after going unsold once (2023).

That first season brought 7 matches and 140 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2026, for Mumbai Indians: 318 runs at an average of 26.5, striking at 147.2 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 57.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2025: 252 runs at a strike rate of 182.6, 30 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

One franchise

Naman Dhir has spent the whole IPL career with Mumbai Indians, from 2024 to 2026. Mumbai Indians went back to the auction to buy Naman Dhir again in 2025 for ₹5.25 cr.

How the runs came

Across the career, Naman Dhir has struck at 164.0. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 154.3, so Naman Dhir has scored about 10 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 69% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 68 fours and 36 sixes.

The fielding record: 24 catches and 1 run-out.

At the auction

Naman Dhir has gone under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹5.25 cr, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2025, more than 17 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2024, ₹5.25 cr by 2025. Unsold in 2023, Naman Dhir was bought in 2024 by Mumbai Indians.

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

Where it stands

Naman Dhir has made 37 IPL appearances, the latest for Mumbai Indians 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
2024Mumbai Indians714062*23.3177.21/0011.79-3
2025Mumbai Indians162524631.5182.60/005.25-12
2026Mumbai Indians143185726.5147.22/0–––9

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 faced30.5%
Balls per four6.4
Balls per six12
Dot balls bowled21.2%
Balls per wicket52
Catches24
Run-outs1
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
2023UAL7₹20 lakhUnsold
2024–₹20 lakhSold to Mumbai Indians for ₹20 lakh
2025UAL1₹30 lakhSold to Mumbai Indians for ₹5.25 cr

Sources