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IPL playerIndia2023 to 2026

Nehal Wadhera

On scorecards: N Wadhera · Right-hand bat

4
Seasons
45
Matches
784
Runs
SR 140.0
0
Wickets
econ 7.76
0
Titles
0
Player of the match

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

Nehal Wadhera, a batter, has played four IPL seasons for two franchises.

The arrival

Nehal Wadhera arrived through the auction: Mumbai Indians paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.

That first season brought 14 matches and 241 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2025, for Punjab Kings: 369 runs at an average of 30.8, striking at 145.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 152.9, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 70.

Franchise by franchise

2023 to 2024, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2023 auction for ₹20 lakh. 20 matches and 350 runs.

2025 to 2026, Punjab Kings. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹4.20 cr. 25 matches and 434 runs.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Mumbai Indians, 2023 to 2024.

How the runs came

Across the career, Nehal Wadhera has struck at 140.0. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 149.6, so Nehal Wadhera has scored about 10 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 66% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 64 fours and 43 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37.5% of the balls Nehal Wadhera faced were dot balls, a higher share than 66% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 13 balls, and a four every 8.8.

The fielding record: 14 catches and 1 run-out.

At the auction

Nehal Wadhera has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹4.20 cr, paid by Punjab Kings in 2025, more than 14 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2023, ₹4.20 cr by 2025.

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

Where it stands

Nehal Wadhera has made 45 IPL appearances, the latest for Punjab Kings 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
2023Mumbai Indians142416426.8145.22/0–––4
2024Mumbai Indians61094918.2129.80/006.50-2
2025Punjab Kings173697030.8145.82/0010.80-6
2026Punjab Kings8652510.8114.00/0–––2

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 faced37.5%
Balls per four8.8
Balls per six13
Dot balls bowled17.7%
Balls per wicket17
Catches14
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
2023–₹20 lakhSold to Mumbai Indians for ₹20 lakh
2025UBA1₹30 lakhSold to Punjab Kings for ₹4.20 cr

Sources