IPL playerIndia2020 to 2026
Shahbaz Ahmed
Right-hand bat
Shahbaz Ahmed, an all-rounder, has played seven IPL seasons for three franchises.
The arrival
Shahbaz Ahmed arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.
That first season brought 2 matches, 1 run and 2 wickets.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2022, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 219 runs at an average of 27.4, striking at 121.0 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 134.2, and a highest score of 45.
With the ball, the best season was 2021, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 7 wickets at 6.57 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.87, with best figures of 3 for 7.
Franchise by franchise
2020 to 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2020 auction for ₹20 lakh. 39 matches, 321 runs and 14 wickets.
2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Arrived outside the auction. 16 matches, 215 runs and 7 wickets.
2025 to 2026, Lucknow Super Giants. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹2.4 cr. 8 matches, 67 runs and 6 wickets.
3 spells with three franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2020 to 2023.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, Shahbaz Ahmed has struck at 123.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 141.8, so Shahbaz Ahmed has scored about 18 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 50% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 33 fours and 28 sixes.
With the ball, 27 wickets in 657 deliveries, at 9.76 runs an over against a league rate of 8.80 for the same seasons: 0.97 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.
25.7% of the balls Shahbaz Ahmed bowled were dots, a lower share than 100% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 24.3 balls.
The fielding record: 20 catches and 2 run-outs.
At the auction
Shahbaz Ahmed has gone under the hammer three times. The highest price was ₹2.4 cr, paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2022, more than 8 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹20 lakh in 2020, ₹2.4 cr by 2025.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Shahbaz Ahmed has made 63 IPL appearances, the latest for Lucknow Super Giants in 2026, and has won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2 | 1 | 1* | – | 100.0 | 0/0 | 2 | 7.33 | 2/26 | 1 | ||
| 2021 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 11 | 59 | 14 | 8.4 | 111.3 | 0/0 | 7 | 6.57 | 3/7 | 3 | ||
| 2022 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 16 | 219 | 45 | 27.4 | 121.0 | 0/0 | 4 | 9.55 | 2/26 | 8 | ||
| 2023 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 42 | 20* | 10.5 | 107.7 | 0/0 | 1 | 13.57 | 1/38 | 5 | ||
| 2024 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 16 | 215 | 59* | 23.9 | 129.5 | 1/0 | 7 | 9.76 | 3/23 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Lucknow Super Giants | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9.0 | 112.5 | 0/0 | 1 | 12.00 | 1/41 | 0 | ||
| 2026 | Lucknow Super Giants | 5 | 58 | 43* | – | 141.5 | 0/0 | 5 | 11.64 | 2/30 | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2020 to 2023
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2024
- Lucknow Super Giants: 2025 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.4% |
| Balls per four | 14.8 |
| Balls per six | 17.5 |
| Dot balls bowled | 25.7% |
| Balls per wicket | 24.3 |
| Catches | 20 |
| Run-outs | 2 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹20 lakh |
| 2022 | UAL1 | ₹30 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹2.4 cr |
| 2025 | ACC | ₹1.0 cr | Sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2.4 cr |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet