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IPL playerSri Lanka2021 to 2025

Wanindu Hasaranga

On scorecards: PWH de Silva · Right-hand bat

4
Seasons
37
Matches
81
Runs
SR 92.1
46
Wickets
econ 8.41
0
Titles
2
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2021 to 2025 · Sources

Wanindu Hasaranga, a bowler, played four IPL seasons for two franchises.

The arrival

Wanindu Hasaranga's first IPL season was 2021, with Royal Challengers Bangalore, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 2 matches and 1 run.

The peak

The best season was 2022, for Royal Challengers Bangalore: 26 wickets at 7.54 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 8.36, with best figures of 5 for 18.

Franchise by franchise

2021 to 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore. 26 matches and 35 wickets.

2025, Rajasthan Royals. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹5.25 cr. 11 matches and 11 wickets.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2021 to 2023. 2024 is missing from the record: a season without an IPL appearance.

How the wickets came

With the ball, 46 wickets in 798 deliveries, at 8.41 runs an over against a league rate of 8.78 for the same seasons: 0.36 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time. There were three four-wicket hauls, and the best figures were 5 for 18.

33.1% of the balls Wanindu Hasaranga bowled were dots, a lower share than 68% of the 150 bowlers with 500 balls or more; a wicket came every 17.4 balls.

The fielding record: 3 catches and 3 run-outs.

At the auction

Wanindu Hasaranga went under the hammer four times. The highest price was ₹10.75 cr, paid by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2022, more than 10 times the base price. The market cooled over time: the last purchase, in 2026, cost ₹2 cr. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2024 and Lucknow Super Giants in 2026.

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

The legacy

Wanindu Hasaranga made 37 IPL appearances, the last for Rajasthan Royals in 2025, and won 2 player-of-the-match awards.

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
2021Royal Challengers Bangalore211*1.050.00/0010.00-0
2022Royal Challengers Bangalore1638185.488.40/0267.545/1812
2023Royal Challengers Bangalore83312*16.5117.90/098.902/240
2025Rajasthan Royals11941.860.00/0119.054/352

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 faced46.6%
Balls per four12.6
Balls per six88
Dot balls bowled33.1%
Balls per wicket17.4
Catches3
Run-outs3
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
2022AL1₹1 crSold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹10.75 cr
2024AL1₹1.50 crSold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹1.50 cr
2025SP1₹2 crSold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹5.25 cr
2026AL1₹2 crSold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2 cr

Sources