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Kings XI Punjab· latest contract 2020
CricOptics rating
3.5 / 5
Rated as a bowler · 11 matches in the last year, newest weighted most
How is this rated?Bowler
Role
South Africa
Country
pace · Right-arm fast
Bowling
₹0.75 Cr
Latest price
retention · 2020 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹0.75 Cr
Highest price
retention 2020
2019
Seen in our data
6 matches
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹0.75 Cr
Highest: ₹0.75 Cr (retention 2020)
Auction prices and retention or trade salaries share the line. A retention is a negotiated salary, not a bid.
Their own figures in each season, one season at a time.
Their last matches in our data, newest first, each rated out of 10.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Bat | Bowl | Rating /10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr 2019 | RCB | L17 runs | 0 (1) | 1/51 (4.0) | 4.1 |
| 20 Apr 2019 | DC | L5 wkts | 2* (3) | 2/39 (4.0) | 6.5 |
| 10 Apr 2019 | MI | L3 wkts | – | 0/34 (4.0) | 5.5 |
| 1 Apr 2019 | DC | W14 runs | 1 (3) | 1/22 (3.0) | 5.6 |
| 30 Mar 2019 | MI | W8 wkts | – | 2/40 (4.0) | 6.6 |
| 27 Mar 2019 | KKR | L28 runs | – | 1/36 (4.0) | 6.0 |
Career-to-date through the 2019 season, from ball-by-ball match data.
Every T20 and T20 international in our match archive, not only the IPL or WPL. Men's domestic T20 is included; Indian domestic women's T20 is not in the data.
Where this comes from and how current it is. Match records are from Cricsheet, a free ball-by-ball archive. Ours runs to 25 October 2026. It refreshes by itself every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, so matches from the last few days may not be in yet. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is only partly covered: seasons 2015/16 and 2017/18 to 2024/25, about 58% of its matches, and nothing after December 2024. Indian domestic women’s T20 is not covered at all. A match missing here does not mean the player did not play it.
Every auction this player was sold at, from the dataset.
| 2019 | Kings XI Punjab | ₹0.75 Cr |
How this player arrived at (or left) a team when it was not an auction. A retention is a negotiated salary capped by the retention rules — it is not an auction price, and the two are not comparable.
| 2021 | Released | Punjab Kings | ₹0.75 Cr |
| 2020 | Retained | Kings XI Punjab | ₹0.75 Cr |
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2019 | 6 | 7 | 9.65 | 3 | 1.50 | 42.86 |
What they actually did in that season alone — not the career-to-date total above. Click a season for the full breakdown.
| 2019 | 7 | 9.65 | 3 | 1.50 | 42.86 |
Written from our own data: date of birth and birthplace from Wikidata, figures from ball-by-ball match data, prices from the auction and retention tables.
Hardus Viljoen is a 37-year-old bowler from South Africa, born in Witbank on 6 March 1989. They bowl right-arm fast. Their most recent retention on record is with Kings XI Punjab (2020).
Across 6 IPL matches in 2019, Hardus Viljoen took 7 wickets at an economy rate of 9.65 and scored 3 runs at an average of 1.5 and a strike rate of 42.9.
The highest price on record is ₹75 lakh (retention, 2020, Kings XI Punjab). They have been sold at auction 1 time.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Hardus Viljoen's 2027 contract is not on record.
What this player would likely go for in the next auction, from the same market model as the Predictor page.
If Hardus Viljoen were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹0.75 Cr
likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹0.85 Cr
Not in the active pool (no contract or recent season), so this is priced from their last record: low confidence.
An estimate of the market price, not a promise. How it is built and how accurate it was is on the Predictor page.