S Aravind

The arrival

S Aravind's first IPL season was 2011, with Royal Challengers Bangalore, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 13 matches, 13 runs and 21 wickets at 8.00 an over. It would stay the best season of the career with the ball.

The peak

The best season was 2011, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 21 wickets at 8.00 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.51, with best figures of 4 for 14.

One franchise

S Aravind spent the whole IPL career with Royal Challengers Bangalore, from 2011 to 2017, although 2013 and 2014 passed without an appearance.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 45 wickets in 761 deliveries, at 8.19 runs an over against a league rate of 7.93 for the same seasons: 0.26 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often. There were two four-wicket hauls, and the best figures were 4 for 14.

38.2% of the balls S Aravind bowled were dots, a higher share than 70% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 16.9 balls.

The fielding record: 5 catches and 1 run-out.

The legacy

S Aravind made 38 IPL appearances, the last for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2017, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.