IPL playerIndia2012 to 2026
Suryakumar Yadav
On scorecards: SA Yadav · Right-hand bat
Suryakumar Yadav, a batter, has played fourteen IPL seasons for two franchises. Three titles came along the way.
The arrival
Suryakumar Yadav's first IPL season was 2012, with Mumbai Indians, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 1 match. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2025, for Mumbai Indians: 717 runs at an average of 65.2, striking at 167.9 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 152.9, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 73 not out. There were five seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2025).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2023: 605 runs at a strike rate of 181.1, 39 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
Franchise by franchise
2012, Mumbai Indians. 1 match.
2014 to 2017, Kolkata Knight Riders. Bought at the 2014 auction for ₹70 lakh. 54 matches and 608 runs; champions in 2014.
2018 to 2026, Mumbai Indians, second time round. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹3.20 cr. 124 matches and 3,973 runs; champions in 2019 and 2020.
3 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Mumbai Indians, 2018 to 2026. 2013 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Suryakumar Yadav has struck at 148.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 139.3, so Suryakumar Yadav has scored about 9 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 65% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 482 fours and 178 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 33.6% of the balls Suryakumar Yadav faced were dot balls, a lower share than 73% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 17.3 balls, and a four every 6.4.
The fielding record: 77 catches and 2 run-outs.
At the auction
Suryakumar Yadav has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹3.20 cr, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2018, more than 10 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹70 lakh in 2014, ₹3.20 cr by 2018.
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, Suryakumar Yadav stands 17th for runs and 21st for matches played. The story is still being written: 2026 was another season with Mumbai Indians.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Mumbai Indians | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | – | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2014 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 16 | 164 | 34 | 27.3 | 139.0 | 0/0 | 0 | 8.00 | - | 7 | Champions | |
| 2015 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 13 | 157 | 46* | 17.4 | 138.9 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 7 | ||
| 2016 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 15 | 182 | 60 | 26.0 | 127.3 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | |
| 2017 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 105 | 31 | 17.5 | 119.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2018 | Mumbai Indians | 14 | 512 | 72 | 36.6 | 133.3 | 4/0 | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 424 | 71* | 32.6 | 130.9 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 9 | 1 | Champions |
| 2020 | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 480 | 79* | 40.0 | 145.0 | 4/0 | – | – | – | 8 | 2 | Champions |
| 2021 | Mumbai Indians | 14 | 317 | 82 | 22.6 | 143.4 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 5 | ||
| 2022 | Mumbai Indians | 8 | 303 | 68* | 43.3 | 145.7 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 605 | 103* | 43.2 | 181.1 | 5/1 | – | – | – | 6 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Mumbai Indians | 11 | 345 | 102* | 34.5 | 167.5 | 3/1 | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 717 | 73* | 65.2 | 167.9 | 5/0 | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | |
| 2026 | Mumbai Indians | 13 | 270 | 60 | 20.8 | 147.5 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 3 |
Franchise journey
- Mumbai Indians: 2012
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 2014 to 2017
- Mumbai Indians: 2018 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 33.6% |
| Balls per four | 6.4 |
| Balls per six | 17.3 |
| Dot balls bowled | 33.3% |
| Balls per wicket | 6 |
| Catches | 77 |
| Run-outs | 2 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
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