IPL playerIndia2008 to 2013
Subramaniam Badrinath
On scorecards: S Badrinath · Right-hand bat
Subramaniam Badrinath, a batter, played six IPL seasons, all of them with Chennai Super Kings. Two titles came along the way.
The arrival
Subramaniam Badrinath was there from the start, in the league's first season, 2008, signed by Chennai Super Kings outside the auction.
That first season brought 16 matches and 192 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2011, for Chennai Super Kings: 396 runs at an average of 56.6, striking at 126.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 121.0, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 71 not out. Chennai Super Kings won the title that year.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2008: 192 runs at a strike rate of 147.7, 19 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
One franchise
Subramaniam Badrinath spent the whole IPL career with Chennai Super Kings, from 2008 to 2013. Chennai Super Kings bought Subramaniam Badrinath at the auction in 2011 for ₹3.60 cr. The club won two titles with Subramaniam Badrinath in the side: 2010 and 2011.
How the runs came
Across the career, Subramaniam Badrinath struck at 118.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 123.3, so Subramaniam Badrinath scored about 4 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 54% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 154 fours and 28 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37.8% of the balls Subramaniam Badrinath faced were dot balls, a higher share than 71% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 43.3 balls, and a four every 7.9.
The fielding record: 16 catches and 5 run-outs.
At the auction
Subramaniam Badrinath went under the hammer three times, bought twice and left unsold once. The highest price was ₹3.60 cr (US$800k), paid by Chennai Super Kings in 2011, more than 8 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2015, cost ₹30 lakh. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2015.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Subramaniam Badrinath made 94 IPL appearances, the last for Chennai Super Kings in 2013, 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 | Chennai Super Kings | 16 | 192 | 64 | 32.0 | 147.7 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2009 | Chennai Super Kings | 14 | 177 | 59* | 19.7 | 107.9 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | |
| 2010 | Chennai Super Kings | 16 | 356 | 55* | 32.4 | 117.5 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 1 | Champions | |
| 2011 | Chennai Super Kings | 16 | 396 | 71* | 56.6 | 126.5 | 5/0 | – | – | – | 1 | Champions | |
| 2012 | Chennai Super Kings | 14 | 196 | 57 | 28.0 | 108.3 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
| 2013 | Chennai Super Kings | 18 | 124 | 34 | 17.7 | 102.5 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 1 |
Franchise journey
- Chennai Super Kings: 2008 to 2013
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 37.8% |
| Balls per four | 7.9 |
| Balls per six | 43.3 |
| Catches | 16 |
| Run-outs | 5 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | – | ₹45 lakh | Sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹3.60 cr (US$800k) |
| 2015 | – | ₹30 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹30 lakh |
| 2016 | Batter | ₹50 lakh | Unsold |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet