IPL playerAustralia2016 to 2026
Travis Head
On scorecards: TM Head · Right-hand bat
Travis Head, a batter, has played five IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Travis Head arrived through the auction: Royal Challengers Bangalore paid ₹50 lakh, against a base price of ₹30 lakh.
That first season brought 3 matches and 54 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2024, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 567 runs at an average of 40.5, striking at 191.6 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 150.6, with 1 hundred and 4 fifties, and a highest score of 102. There were two seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2024 and 2026).
Franchise by franchise
2016 to 2017, Royal Challengers Bangalore. Bought at the 2016 auction for ₹50 lakh. 10 matches, 205 runs and 2 wickets.
2024 to 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Bought at the 2024 auction for ₹6.80 cr. 43 matches, 1,351 runs and 1 wicket.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2024 to 2026. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing from the record: seasons without an IPL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, Travis Head has struck at 170.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 149.9, so Travis Head has scored about 20 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 74% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 172 fours and 78 sixes.
The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 34.3% of the balls Travis Head faced were dot balls, a lower share than 66% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 11.7 balls, the 20th-best rate in that group, and a four every 5.3.
The fielding record: 6 catches.
At the auction
Travis Head has gone under the hammer four times, bought twice and left unsold twice. The highest price was ₹6.80 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2024, more than 3 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹50 lakh in 2016, ₹6.80 cr by 2024. Unsold in 2018, Travis Head was bought again in 2024 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Travis Head has made 53 IPL appearances, the latest for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2026, and has won 3 player-of-the-match awards.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 3 | 54 | 37 | 27.0 | 135.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2017 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 7 | 151 | 75* | 30.2 | 139.8 | 1/0 | 2 | 10.13 | 2/30 | 3 | ||
| 2024 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15 | 567 | 102 | 40.5 | 191.6 | 4/1 | 0 | 19.20 | - | 0 | 3 | |
| 2025 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 13 | 374 | 76 | 31.2 | 162.6 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 3 | ||
| 2026 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15 | 410 | 76 | 27.3 | 170.1 | 2/0 | 1 | 7.00 | 1/7 | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bangalore: 2016 to 2017
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2024 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.3% |
| Balls per four | 5.3 |
| Balls per six | 11.7 |
| Dot balls bowled | 15.6% |
| Balls per wicket | 21.3 |
| Catches | 6 |
| Run-outs | 0 |
| Stumpings | 0 |
At the auction
| Auction | Set | Base price | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | – | ₹30 lakh | Sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹50 lakh |
| 2018 | Batter | ₹1.50 cr | Unsold |
| 2023 | BA2 | ₹2 cr | Unsold |
| 2024 | BA1 | ₹2 cr | Sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹6.80 cr |
Sources
- CricArcade IPL season statistics
- CricArcade IPL auction archive
- Kaggle IPL Complete Match Dataset 2008-2026, ball-by-ball, cross-checked against Cricsheet