IPL playerAfghanistan2023 to 2025
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Right-hand bat
Rahmanullah Gurbaz, a batter, played three IPL seasons, all of them with Kolkata Knight Riders. One title came along the way.
The arrival
Rahmanullah Gurbaz's first IPL season was 2023, with Kolkata Knight Riders, a signing made outside the auction. That debut came after going unsold once (2022).
That first season brought 11 matches and 227 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2023, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 227 runs at an average of 20.6, striking at 133.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 141.9, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 81.
One franchise
Rahmanullah Gurbaz spent the whole IPL career with Kolkata Knight Riders, from 2023 to 2025. Kolkata Knight Riders bought Rahmanullah Gurbaz at the auction in 2025 for ₹2 cr. The club won the title with Rahmanullah Gurbaz in the side: 2024.
How the runs came
Across the career, Rahmanullah Gurbaz struck at 134.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 145.5, so Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored about 11 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 74% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 34 fours and 22 sixes.
The fielding record: 17 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Rahmanullah Gurbaz went under the hammer three times, bought once and left unsold twice. The price was ₹2 cr, paid by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2025. Unsold in 2022, Rahmanullah Gurbaz was bought in 2025 by Kolkata Knight Riders.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Rahmanullah Gurbaz made 18 IPL appearances, the last for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2025.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 11 | 227 | 81 | 20.6 | 133.5 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 10 | ||
| 2024 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 62 | 39 | 31.0 | 134.8 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 5 | Champions | |
| 2025 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 5 | 74 | 35 | 18.5 | 139.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 2023 to 2025
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 49.1% |
| Balls per four | 7.9 |
| Balls per six | 12.2 |
| Catches | 17 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet