Priyam Garg

The arrival

Priyam Garg arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹1.90 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh. That debut came after going unsold once (2019).

That first season brought 14 matches and 133 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2020, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 133 runs at an average of 14.8, striking at 119.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 131.8, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 51 not out.

Franchise by franchise

2020 to 2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2020 auction for ₹1.90 cr. 21 matches and 251 runs.

2023, Delhi Capitals. Arrived outside the auction. 2 matches and 22 runs.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2020 to 2022.

How the runs came

Across the career, Priyam Garg struck at 113.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 131.7, so Priyam Garg scored about 18 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 43% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 16 fours and 9 sixes.

The fielding record: 11 catches.

At the auction

Priyam Garg went under the hammer five times, bought twice and left unsold three times. The highest price was ₹1.90 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2020, more than 9 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2022, cost ₹20 lakh. Unsold in 2019, Priyam Garg was bought in 2020 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.

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

The legacy

Priyam Garg made 23 IPL appearances, the last for Delhi Capitals in 2023, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.