Shubman Gill

The arrival

Shubman Gill arrived through the auction: Kolkata Knight Riders paid ₹1.80 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.

That first season brought 13 matches and 203 runs. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2023, for Gujarat Titans: 890 runs at an average of 59.3, striking at 157.8 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 141.9, with 3 hundreds and 4 fifties, and a highest score of 129. There were seven seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026).

Franchise by franchise

2018 to 2021, Kolkata Knight Riders. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹1.80 cr. 58 matches and 1,417 runs.

2022 to 2026, Gujarat Titans. Arrived outside the auction. 76 matches and 3,181 runs; captain in 2024, 2025 and 2026; champions in 2022.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Gujarat Titans, 2022 to 2026.

How the runs came

Across the career, Shubman Gill has struck at 142.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 141.5, so the scoring rate has tracked the league's almost exactly. 59% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 446 fours and 152 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 31% of the balls Shubman Gill faced were dot balls, a lower share than 92% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 21.3 balls, and a four every 7.3.

The fielding record: 57 catches and 2 run-outs.

At the auction

Shubman Gill has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹1.80 cr, paid by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2018, more than 9 times the base price.

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

Where it stands

On the all-time IPL lists, among 810 players, Shubman Gill stands 16th for runs and 13th for player-of-the-match awards. The story is still being written: 2026 was another season with Gujarat Titans.