Tilak Varma

The arrival

Tilak Varma arrived through the auction: Mumbai Indians paid ₹1.70 cr, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.

That first season brought 14 matches and 397 runs.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2024, for Mumbai Indians: 416 runs at an average of 41.6, striking at 149.6 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, with 3 fifties, and a highest score of 65.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2023: 343 runs at a strike rate of 164.1, 22 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

One franchise

Tilak Varma has spent the whole IPL career with Mumbai Indians, from 2022 to 2026.

How the runs came

Across the career, Tilak Varma has struck at 144.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 146.9, so the scoring rate has tracked the league's almost exactly. 60% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 143 fours and 91 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 31.2% of the balls Tilak Varma faced were dot balls, a lower share than 90% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 14.1 balls, and a four every 9.

The fielding record: 44 catches and 4 run-outs.

At the auction

Tilak Varma has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹1.70 cr, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2022, more than 8 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

Tilak Varma has made 68 IPL appearances, the latest for Mumbai Indians in 2026, and has won 2 player-of-the-match awards.