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IPL playerWest Indies2020

Sheldon Cottrell

On scorecards: SS Cottrell · Right-hand bat

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Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2020 to 2020 · Sources

Sheldon Cottrell, a bowler, spent a single IPL season with Kings XI Punjab, 2020: 6 matches, 6 wickets.

The arrival

Sheldon Cottrell arrived through the auction: Kings XI Punjab paid ₹8.50 cr, against a base price of ₹50 lakh. That debut came after going unsold twice (2014 and 2015).

That first season brought 6 matches and 6 wickets at 8.80 an over.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 6 wickets in 120 deliveries, at 8.80 runs an over against a league rate of 8.14 for the same seasons: 0.66 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

At the auction

Sheldon Cottrell went under the hammer five times, bought once and left unsold four times. The price was ₹8.50 cr, paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2020, more than 17 times the base price. Unsold in 2014, Sheldon Cottrell was bought in 2020 by Kings XI Punjab.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Sheldon Cottrell made 6 IPL appearances, the last for Kings XI Punjab in 2020.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each IPL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
SeasonTeamMRunsHSAvgSR50/100WktsEconBestCtPOTM
2020Kings XI Punjab6000.0–0/068.802/170

Franchise journey

Ball-by-ball detail

Career totals from ball-by-ball data, not split by season; included only where they agree exactly with the runs and wickets on this page.
MetricValue
Dot balls faced100%
Balls per four2
Balls per six2
Dot balls bowled48.3%
Balls per wicket20

At the auction

From the IPL auction archive; prices in lakh and crore of rupees, with the US dollar price for the auctions that were conducted in dollars (2008 to 2013).
AuctionSetBase priceResult
2014Fast Bowler₹30 lakhUnsold
2015Fast Bowler₹50 lakhUnsold
2020FA1₹50 lakhSold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹8.50 cr
2021–₹1 crUnsold
2022–₹75 lakhUnsold

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