IPL playerIndia2021 to 2026
Rajat Patidar
On scorecards: RM Patidar · Right-hand bat
Rajat Patidar, a batter, has played five IPL seasons, all of them with Royal Challengers Bangalore, now Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Two titles came along the way, both of them as captain.
The arrival
Rajat Patidar arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.
That first season brought 4 matches and 71 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2026, for Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 501 runs at an average of 41.8, striking at 192.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 93 not out. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the title that year. It came in a season as captain.
One franchise
Rajat Patidar has spent the whole IPL career with Royal Challengers Bangalore, now Royal Challengers Bengaluru, from 2021 to 2026, although 2023 passed without an appearance. Captain in two seasons (2025 and 2026). The club won two titles with Rajat Patidar in the side: 2025 and 2026.
How the runs came
Across the career, Rajat Patidar has struck at 164.5. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 147.5, so Rajat Patidar has scored about 17 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 67% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 106 fours and 110 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 29.8% of the balls Rajat Patidar faced were dot balls, a lower share than 96% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 8.9 balls, the 4th-best rate in that group, and a four every 9.3.
The fielding record: 20 catches.
At the auction
Rajat Patidar has gone under the hammer twice, bought once and left unsold once. The price was ₹20 lakh, paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2021.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Rajat Patidar has made 57 IPL appearances, the latest for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2026, and has won 5 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 4 | 71 | 31 | 17.8 | 114.5 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2022 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 | 333 | 112* | 55.5 | 152.8 | 2/1 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 | 395 | 55 | 30.4 | 177.1 | 5/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 | 312 | 64 | 24.0 | 143.8 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | Captain, Champions |
| 2026 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 | 501 | 93* | 41.8 | 192.7 | 5/0 | – | – | – | 10 | 1 | Captain, Champions |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2021 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 29.8% |
| Balls per four | 9.3 |
| Balls per six | 8.9 |
| Catches | 20 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| 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