IPL playerIndia2022 to 2026
Shashank Singh
Right-hand bat
Shashank Singh, a batter, has played four IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Shashank Singh arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹20 lakh, the base price.
That first season brought 10 matches and 69 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2024, for Punjab Kings: 354 runs at an average of 44.3, striking at 164.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 68 not out.
Franchise by franchise
2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2022 auction for ₹20 lakh. 10 matches and 69 runs.
2024 to 2026, Punjab Kings. Bought at the 2024 auction for ₹20 lakh. 44 matches, 836 runs and 5 wickets.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Punjab Kings, 2024 to 2026. 2023 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Shashank Singh has struck at 161.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 150.9, so Shashank Singh has scored about 11 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 63% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 67 fours and 51 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 27.7% of the balls Shashank Singh faced were dot balls, a lower share than 99% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 11 balls, the 17th-best rate in that group, and a four every 8.4.
The fielding record: 18 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Shashank Singh has gone under the hammer six times, bought four times and left unsold twice. The highest price was ₹30 lakh, paid by Rajasthan Royals in 2019. Unsold in 2023, Shashank Singh was bought again in 2024 by Punjab Kings. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Delhi Daredevils in 2017 and Rajasthan Royals in 2019.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Shashank Singh has made 54 IPL appearances, the latest for Punjab Kings 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 69 | 25* | 17.3 | 146.8 | 0/0 | 0 | 10.00 | - | 3 | ||
| 2024 | Punjab Kings | 14 | 354 | 68* | 44.3 | 164.7 | 2/0 | 1 | 5.00 | 1/5 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Punjab Kings | 18 | 350 | 61* | 50.0 | 153.5 | 3/0 | 0 | 13.50 | - | 7 | ||
| 2026 | Punjab Kings | 12 | 132 | 56 | 22.0 | 188.6 | 1/0 | 4 | 8.80 | 2/20 | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2022
- Punjab Kings: 2024 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 27.7% |
| Balls per four | 8.4 |
| Balls per six | 11 |
| Dot balls bowled | 23.3% |
| Balls per wicket | 18 |
| Catches | 18 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | – | ₹10 lakh | Sold to Delhi Daredevils for ₹10 lakh |
| 2019 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹30 lakh |
| 2022 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹20 lakh |
| 2023 | UAL1 | ₹20 lakh | Unsold |
| 2024 | – | ₹20 lakh | Sold to Punjab Kings for ₹20 lakh |
| 2024 | UAL2 | ₹20 lakh | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet