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IPL playerWest Indies2012 to 2026

Sunil Narine

On scorecards: SP Narine · Right-hand bat

15
Seasons
201
Matches
1,820
Runs
SR 165.4
209
Wickets
econ 6.78
3
Titles
18
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2012 to 2026 · Sources

Sunil Narine, an all-rounder, has played fifteen IPL seasons, all of them with Kolkata Knight Riders, and has taken 209 wickets, the 3rd-most in IPL history. Three titles came along the way.

The arrival

Sunil Narine arrived through the auction: Kolkata Knight Riders paid ₹3.50 cr (US$700k), against a base price of ₹25 lakh.

That first season brought 15 matches, 9 runs and 24 wickets at 5.48 an over, and ended with Kolkata Knight Riders as champions. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2024, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 488 runs at an average of 34.9, striking at 180.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, with 1 hundred and 3 fifties, and a highest score of 109. Kolkata Knight Riders won the title that year.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2018: 357 runs at a strike rate of 189.9, 52 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

With the ball, the best season was 2012, for Kolkata Knight Riders: 24 wickets at 5.48 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.64, with best figures of 5 for 19. Kolkata Knight Riders won the title that year. Seven seasons brought 15 wickets or more (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2024 and 2026).

One franchise

Sunil Narine has spent the whole IPL career with Kolkata Knight Riders, from 2012 to 2026. The club won three titles with Sunil Narine in the side: 2012, 2014 and 2024.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Sunil Narine has struck at 165.4. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 141.2, so Sunil Narine has scored about 24 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 82% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 191 fours and 120 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 45.5% of the balls Sunil Narine faced were dot balls, a higher share than 96% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 9.2 balls, the 6th-best rate in that group, and a four every 5.8.

With the ball, 209 wickets in 4,666 deliveries, at 6.78 runs an over against a league rate of 8.39 for the same seasons: 1.61 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time, the mark of a bowler who kept things tight. There were eight four-wicket hauls, and the best figures were 5 for 19.

38.3% of the balls Sunil Narine bowled were dots, a higher share than 70% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 22.3 balls.

The fielding record: 29 catches and 6 run-outs.

At the auction

Sunil Narine has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹3.50 cr (US$700k), paid by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, more than 14 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, Sunil Narine stands 3rd for wickets, 13th for matches played and 5th for player-of-the-match awards. The story is still being written: 2026 was another season with Kolkata Knight Riders.

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
2012Kolkata Knight Riders1599*9.0128.60/0245.485/1903Champions
2013Kolkata Knight Riders1621137.0110.50/0225.474/1331
2014Kolkata Knight Riders1610610.071.40/0216.404/202Champions
2015Kolkata Knight Riders800*––0/077.314/190
2016Kolkata Knight Riders11747.053.90/0117.133/261
2017Kolkata Knight Riders162245417.2172.31/0106.982/2932
2018Kolkata Knight Riders163577522.3189.92/0177.663/1813
2019Kolkata Knight Riders121434717.9166.30/0107.832/190
2020Kolkata Knight Riders101216413.4142.31/057.952/282
2021Kolkata Knight Riders1462267.8131.90/0166.414/2123
2022Kolkata Knight Riders14712210.1177.50/095.572/212
2023Kolkata Knight Riders14217*3.084.00/0117.983/331
2024Kolkata Knight Riders1448810934.9180.73/1176.692/2273Champions
2025Kolkata Knight Riders122464422.4170.80/0127.743/1332
2026Kolkata Knight Riders13402413.3125.00/0176.602/121

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 faced45.5%
Balls per four5.8
Balls per six9.2
Dot balls bowled38.3%
Balls per wicket22.3
Catches29
Run-outs6
Stumpings0

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
2012–₹25 lakhSold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹3.50 cr (US$700k)

Sources