IPL playerIndia2019 to 2026
Prabhsimran Singh
On scorecards: P Simran Singh · Right-hand bat
Prabhsimran Singh, a wicketkeeper-batter, has played eight IPL seasons, all of them with Kings XI Punjab, now Punjab Kings. In eight seasons the title has not yet come.
The arrival
Prabhsimran Singh arrived through the auction: Kings XI Punjab paid ₹4.80 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.
That first season brought 1 match and 16 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2025, for Punjab Kings: 599 runs at an average of 35.2, striking at 161.9 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 152.9, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 91. There were two seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2025 and 2026).
One franchise
Prabhsimran Singh has spent the whole IPL career with Kings XI Punjab, now Punjab Kings, from 2019 to 2026. Kings XI Punjab went back to the auction to buy Prabhsimran Singh again in 2020 and 2022.
How the runs came
Across the career, Prabhsimran Singh has struck at 156.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 150.0, so Prabhsimran Singh has scored about 7 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 72% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 196 fours and 94 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37.5% of the balls Prabhsimran Singh 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 12.7 balls, and a four every 6.1.
The fielding record: 13 catches, 1 run-out and 2 stumpings.
At the auction
Prabhsimran Singh has gone under the hammer three times. The highest price was ₹4.80 cr, paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2019, more than 24 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2022, cost ₹60 lakh.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Prabhsimran Singh has made 66 IPL appearances, the latest for Punjab Kings in 2026, and has won 3 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Kings XI Punjab | 1 | 16 | 16 | 16.0 | 94.1 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2020 | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 15 | 11 | 7.5 | 100.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2021 | Punjab Kings | 2 | 19 | 12 | 9.5 | 82.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Punjab Kings | 1 | 14 | 14 | 14.0 | 127.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023 | Punjab Kings | 14 | 358 | 103 | 25.6 | 150.4 | 1/1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Punjab Kings | 14 | 334 | 71 | 23.9 | 156.8 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2025 | Punjab Kings | 18 | 599 | 91 | 35.2 | 161.9 | 5/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | |
| 2026 | Punjab Kings | 14 | 510 | 80* | 42.5 | 168.9 | 6/0 | – | – | – | 8 |
Franchise journey
- Kings XI Punjab: 2019 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 37.5% |
| Balls per four | 6.1 |
| Balls per six | 12.7 |
| Catches | 13 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 2 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹4.80 cr |
| 2020 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹55 lakh |
| 2022 | UWK1 | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Punjab Kings for ₹60 lakh |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet