Build an IPL, BBL or global T20 franchise from the ground up in this cricket auction game. Auction an 18-man squad against a live salary cap, retain your core between seasons, and make in-game tactical calls: Power Surges, bowling changes, batting order, and pitch reads. Play a single Quick Play tournament with a fixed seed and a shareable result, or commit to Squad Mode, a multi-season franchise manager career where retention prices, transfer windows and club milestones carry across years. Every squad draws on real historical rosters, from the 2008 inaugural IPL season through the newest campaigns. No download and no account required to start; sign in to sync your career and rank on the global leaderboard.
GUIDES
Why a Captain Matters: Bowling changes, fields at the death, and holding a side together in a chase: what a T20 captain actually decides, and why the vice-captaincy is a real choice.
How IPL Auctions Work: Purse caps, retention and overseas-player limits: the mechanics behind a T20 franchise auction, and how the game puts you through the same calls.
How Real Careers Become In-Game Ratings: Every player is built from real career numbers. How an average and a strike rate become a rating, and the trick that makes a higher rating actually buy survival.
Why Your 99-Rated Star Still Gets Out: Peak seasons in T20 cricket look almost superhuman. Why CricArcade keeps its very best players clearly great without letting them become un-dismissable.
How a T20 Innings Is Modelled: Powerplay, middle and a death where everyone slogs: how 20 overs are shaped, calibrated to hundreds of thousands of real IPL deliveries.
Who Bowls This Over? The AI's Bowling Rotation: Pace at the death, spin through the middle, and a part-timer who tails off: how the engine picks a bowler for every over, and why it feels like captaincy.
One Engine, Five Formats: ODI, T20, online versus, the BBL and the super over run on the same engine, separated only by a handful of numbers. What actually changes between formats.
From CricArcade's IPL records, 2019 to 2019 · Sources
Siddhesh Lad, a batter, spent a single IPL season with Mumbai Indians, 2019: 1 match, 15 runs, and a winner's medal when Mumbai Indians took the title.
The arrival
Siddhesh Lad's first IPL season was 2019, with Mumbai Indians, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 1 match and 15 runs, and ended with Mumbai Indians as champions.
At the auction
Siddhesh Lad went under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹20 lakh, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2018. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Mumbai Indians in 2015 and Mumbai Indians in 2018.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
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.
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.
Metric
Value
Dot balls faced
61.5%
Balls per four
13
Balls per six
13
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).