IPL playerIndia2008 to 2020
Shreevats Goswami
On scorecards: SP Goswami · Right-hand bat
Shreevats Goswami, a wicketkeeper-batter, played seven IPL seasons for four franchises.
The arrival
Shreevats Goswami was there from the start, in the league's first season, 2008, signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore outside the auction.
That first season brought 4 matches and 82 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2008, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 82 runs at an average of 27.3, striking at 96.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.1, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 52.
Franchise by franchise
2008 to 2010, Royal Challengers Bangalore. 7 matches and 143 runs.
2011, Kolkata Knight Riders. Arrived outside the auction. 5 matches and 29 runs.
2012, Rajasthan Royals. Arrived outside the auction. 11 matches and 69 runs.
2018 to 2020, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹1 cr. 8 matches and 52 runs.
4 spells with four franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2008 to 2010. 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 are missing from the record: seasons without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Shreevats Goswami struck at 100.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.7, so Shreevats Goswami scored about 25 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 50% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 32 fours and 3 sixes.
The fielding record: 18 catches, 8 run-outs and 7 stumpings, the stumpings a reminder of the gloves.
At the auction
Shreevats Goswami went under the hammer three times, bought once and left unsold twice. The price was ₹1 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018, more than 5 times the base price. Unsold in 2017, Shreevats Goswami was bought in 2018 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Shreevats Goswami made 31 IPL appearances, the last for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2020, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 4 | 82 | 52 | 27.3 | 96.5 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | |
| 2009 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2 | 53 | 43 | 26.5 | 88.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 | ||
| 2010 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8.0 | 80.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2011 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 5 | 29 | 22 | 7.3 | 100.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2012 | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 69 | 24 | 13.8 | 103.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 8 | ||
| 2018 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 6 | 52 | 35 | 17.3 | 130.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2020 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | – | 0/0 | – | – | – | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2008 to 2010
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 2011
- Rajasthan Royals: 2012
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2018 to 2020
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 44.4% |
| Balls per four | 9.2 |
| Balls per six | 98.3 |
| Catches | 18 |
| Run-outs | 8 |
| Stumpings | 7 |
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