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Shahid Afridi
Right-hand bat
Shahid Afridi, a bowler, spent a single IPL season with Deccan Chargers, 2008: 10 matches, 81 runs, 9 wickets.
The arrival
Shahid Afridi arrived through the auction: Deccan Chargers paid ₹2.70 cr (US$675k), against a base price of ₹90 lakh, at the very first IPL auction.
That first season brought 10 matches, 81 runs and 9 wickets at 7.46 an over.
How the wickets came
With the ball, 9 wickets in 181 deliveries, at 7.46 runs an over against a league rate of 8.05 for the same seasons: 0.59 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time, the mark of a bowler who kept things tight.
The fielding record: 4 catches.
At the auction
Shahid Afridi went under the hammer twice, bought once and left unsold once. The price was ₹2.70 cr (US$675k), paid by Deccan Chargers in 2008, more than 3 times the base price.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Shahid Afridi made 10 IPL appearances, the last for Deccan Chargers in 2008.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Deccan Chargers | 10 | 81 | 33 | 10.1 | 176.1 | 0/0 | 9 | 7.46 | 3/28 | 4 |
Franchise journey
- Deccan Chargers: 2008
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 43.5% |
| Balls per four | 6.6 |
| Balls per six | 7.7 |
| Dot balls bowled | 31.7% |
| Balls per wicket | 20 |
| Catches | 4 |
| 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