IPL playerEngland2009 to 2015
Ravi Bopara
On scorecards: RS Bopara · Right-hand bat
Ravi Bopara, a batter, played three IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Ravi Bopara arrived through the auction: Kings XI Punjab paid ₹2.16 cr (US$450k), against a base price of ₹72 lakh.
That first season brought 5 matches and 138 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2010, for Kings XI Punjab: 248 runs at an average of 31.0, striking at 115.9 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.0, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 77.
With the ball, the best season was 2015, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 6 wickets at 8.00 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.19, with best figures of 2 for 18.
Franchise by franchise
2009 to 2010, Kings XI Punjab. Bought at the 2009 auction for ₹2.16 cr. 15 matches, 386 runs and 5 wickets.
2015, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2015 auction for ₹1 cr. 9 matches, 145 runs and 6 wickets.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Kings XI Punjab, 2009 to 2010. 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are missing from the record: seasons without an IPL appearance.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, Ravi Bopara struck at 117.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.7, so Ravi Bopara scored about 8 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 47% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 39 fours and 16 sixes.
With the ball, 11 wickets in 206 deliveries, at 8.50 runs an over against a league rate of 8.05 for the same seasons: 0.46 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often.
The fielding record: 4 catches.
At the auction
Ravi Bopara went under the hammer eight times, bought twice and left unsold six times. The highest price was ₹2.16 cr (US$450k), paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2009, more than 3 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2015, cost ₹1 cr. Unsold in 2011, Ravi Bopara was bought again in 2015 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Ravi Bopara made 24 IPL appearances, the last for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2015, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Kings XI Punjab | 5 | 138 | 84 | 27.6 | 116.0 | 1/0 | 0 | 3.75 | - | 1 | 1 | |
| 2010 | Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 248 | 77 | 31.0 | 115.9 | 2/0 | 5 | 9.77 | 3/31 | 2 | ||
| 2015 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 9 | 145 | 41 | 29.0 | 120.8 | 0/0 | 6 | 8.00 | 2/18 | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Kings XI Punjab: 2009 to 2010
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2015
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 35.3% |
| Balls per four | 11.6 |
| Balls per six | 28.3 |
| Dot balls bowled | 29.6% |
| Balls per wicket | 18.7 |
| Catches | 4 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | – | ₹72 lakh | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹2.16 cr (US$450k) |
| 2011 | All-rounder | ₹90 lakh | Unsold |
| 2012 | All-rounder | ₹50 lakh | Unsold |
| 2013 | All-rounder | ₹54 lakh | Unsold |
| 2014 | All-rounder | ₹1 cr | Unsold |
| 2015 | All-rounder | ₹1 cr | Unsold |
| 2015 | – | ₹1 cr | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹1 cr |
| 2016 | All-rounder | ₹1 cr | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet