IPL playerEngland2024 to 2026
Will Jacks
On scorecards: WG Jacks · Right-hand bat
Will Jacks, a batter, has played three IPL seasons for two franchises.
The arrival
Will Jacks's first IPL season was 2024, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru, a signing made outside the auction.
That first season brought 8 matches, 230 runs and 2 wickets.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2025, for Mumbai Indians: 233 runs at an average of 23.3, striking at 135.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 152.9, with 1 fifty, and a highest score of 53.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2024: 230 runs at a strike rate of 175.6, 25 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.
With the ball, the best season was 2025, for Mumbai Indians: 6 wickets at 8.47 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 9.48, with best figures of 2 for 14.
Franchise by franchise
2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru. 8 matches, 230 runs and 2 wickets.
2025 to 2026, Mumbai Indians. Bought at the 2025 auction for ₹5.25 cr. 20 matches, 372 runs and 8 wickets.
2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Mumbai Indians, 2025 to 2026.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, Will Jacks has struck at 158.9. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 152.8, so Will Jacks has scored about 6 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 71% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 50 fours and 38 sixes.
With the ball, 10 wickets in 192 deliveries, at 9.81 runs an over against a league rate of 9.52 for the same seasons: 0.29 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often.
The fielding record: 11 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Will Jacks has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹5.25 cr, paid by Mumbai Indians in 2025. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2023.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
Where it stands
Will Jacks has made 28 IPL appearances, the latest for Mumbai Indians 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 8 | 230 | 100* | 32.9 | 175.6 | 1/1 | 2 | 11.11 | 1/23 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2025 | Mumbai Indians | 13 | 233 | 53 | 23.3 | 135.5 | 1/0 | 6 | 8.47 | 2/14 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2026 | Mumbai Indians | 7 | 139 | 46 | 27.8 | 182.9 | 0/0 | 2 | 10.64 | 1/12 | 2 |
Franchise journey
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 2024
- Mumbai Indians: 2025 to 2026
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls faced | 34.8% |
| Balls per four | 7.6 |
| Balls per six | 10 |
| Dot balls bowled | 32.5% |
| Balls per wicket | 19.1 |
| Catches | 11 |
| Run-outs | 1 |
| 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