Tirumalasetti Suman

The arrival

Tirumalasetti Suman's first IPL season was 2009, with Deccan Chargers, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 12 matches, 237 runs and 5 wickets at 7.12 an over, and ended with Deccan Chargers as champions.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2010, for Deccan Chargers: 307 runs at an average of 34.1, striking at 119.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.0, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 78 not out.

Franchise by franchise

2009 to 2010, Deccan Chargers. 26 matches, 544 runs and 5 wickets; champions in 2009.

2011 to 2012, Mumbai Indians. Arrived outside the auction. 10 matches and 80 runs.

2013, Pune Warriors. Arrived outside the auction. 7 matches, 52 runs and 1 wicket.

3 spells with three franchises in all. The longest was with Deccan Chargers, 2009 to 2010.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Tirumalasetti Suman struck at 117.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 122.4, so Tirumalasetti Suman scored about 5 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time. 56% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 55 fours and 26 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 41.9% of the balls Tirumalasetti Suman faced were dot balls, a higher share than 88% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 22.1 balls, and a four every 10.5.

With the ball, 6 wickets in 152 deliveries, at 7.78 runs an over against a league rate of 7.41 for the same seasons: 0.37 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 10 catches and 5 run-outs.

At the auction

Tirumalasetti Suman went under the hammer once. The price was ₹10 lakh, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Tirumalasetti Suman made 43 IPL appearances, the last for Pune Warriors in 2013, and won 1 player-of-the-match award.