IPL playerIndia2025
Zeeshan Ansari
Right-hand bat
Zeeshan Ansari, a bowler, spent a single IPL season with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2025: 10 matches, 6 wickets.
The arrival
Zeeshan Ansari arrived through the auction: Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹40 lakh, against a base price of ₹30 lakh. That debut came after going unsold once (2022).
That first season brought 10 matches and 6 wickets at 9.79 an over.
How the wickets came
With the ball, 6 wickets in 204 deliveries, at 9.79 runs an over against a league rate of 9.48 for the same seasons: 0.32 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.
The fielding record: 3 catches and 1 run-out.
At the auction
Zeeshan Ansari went under the hammer twice, bought once and left unsold once. The price was ₹40 lakh, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2025. Unsold in 2022, Zeeshan Ansari was bought in 2025 by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.
The legacy
Zeeshan Ansari made 10 IPL appearances, the last for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2025.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 0 | – | – | – | 0/0 | 6 | 9.79 | 3/42 | 3 |
Franchise journey
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 2025
Ball-by-ball detail
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Dot balls bowled | 23.2% |
| Balls per wicket | 33.8 |
| Catches | 3 |
| 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