IPL playerAustralia2008 to 2017
Shaun Marsh
On scorecards: SE Marsh · Right-hand bat
Shaun Marsh, a batter, played nine IPL seasons, all of them with Kings XI Punjab. In nine seasons the title never came.
The arrival
Shaun Marsh was there from the start, in the league's first season, 2008, signed by Kings XI Punjab outside the auction.
That first season brought 11 matches and 616 runs. It would stay the best season of the career with the bat.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2008, for Kings XI Punjab: 616 runs at an average of 68.4, striking at 139.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 1 hundred and 5 fifties, and a highest score of 115. There were two seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2008 and 2011).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2011: 504 runs at a strike rate of 146.5, 25 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
One franchise
Shaun Marsh spent the whole IPL career with Kings XI Punjab, from 2008 to 2017, although 2009 passed without an appearance. Kings XI Punjab bought Shaun Marsh at the auction in 2011 and 2014.
How the runs came
Across the career, Shaun Marsh struck at 133.0. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 126.4, so Shaun Marsh scored about 7 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 62% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 269 fours and 78 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37% of the balls Shaun Marsh faced were dot balls, a higher share than 62% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 24 balls, and a four every 7.
The fielding record: 26 catches and 3 run-outs.
At the auction
Shaun Marsh went under the hammer six times, bought twice and left unsold four times. The highest price was ₹2.20 cr, paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2014.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Shaun Marsh made 71 IPL appearances, the last for Kings XI Punjab in 2017, and won 9 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Kings XI Punjab | 11 | 616 | 115 | 68.4 | 139.7 | 5/1 | – | – | – | 3 | 5 | |
| 2010 | Kings XI Punjab | 4 | 147 | 88* | 49.0 | 128.9 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2011 | Kings XI Punjab | 14 | 504 | 95 | 42.0 | 146.5 | 4/0 | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | |
| 2012 | Kings XI Punjab | 13 | 336 | 68* | 30.5 | 120.0 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | |
| 2013 | Kings XI Punjab | 8 | 300 | 77 | 37.5 | 120.5 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
| 2014 | Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 70 | 40 | 35.0 | 134.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | |
| 2015 | Kings XI Punjab | 4 | 93 | 65 | 18.6 | 147.6 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | |
| 2016 | Kings XI Punjab | 6 | 159 | 56* | 31.8 | 118.7 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2017 | Kings XI Punjab | 9 | 264 | 84 | 33.0 | 136.1 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Kings XI Punjab: 2008 to 2017
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 37% |
| Balls per four | 7 |
| Balls per six | 24 |
| Catches | 26 |
| Run-outs | 3 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | – | ₹1.80 cr | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹1.80 cr (US$400k) |
| 2014 | BA1 | ₹2 cr | Sold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹2.20 cr |
| 2018 | Batter | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2019 | Batter | ₹2 cr | Unsold |
| 2020 | Batter | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2021 | – | ₹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