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Lucknow Super Giants· latest contract 2026
CricOptics rating
3.6 / 5
Rated as a batter · 4 matches in the last year, newest weighted most
How is this rated?Batter
Role
India
Country
spin · Right-arm leg break
Bowling
₹4.20 Cr
Latest price
retention · 2026 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹4.20 Cr
Highest price
retention 2026
2020–2026
Seen in our data
71 matches
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹4.20 Cr
Highest: ₹4.20 Cr (retention 2026)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | PBKS | L7 wkts | 37* (20) | – | 7.7 |
| 15 May 2026 | CSK | W7 wkts | 7 (3) | – | – |
| 15 Apr 2026 | RCB | L5 wkts | 0 (2) | – | – |
| 12 Apr 2026 | GT | L7 wkts | 18 (22) | – | 3.8 |
| 9 Apr 2026 | KKR | W3 wkts | 2 (4) | – | – |
| 5 Apr 2026 | SRH | W5 wkts | 16 (12) | – | 5.8 |
| 1 Apr 2026 | DC | L6 wkts | 36 (25) | 0/6 (0.1) | 5.6 |
| 27 May 2025 | RCB | L6 wkts | 1* (1) | – | – |
| 19 May 2025 | SRH | L6 wkts | 3 (6) | – | 5.1 |
| 4 May 2025 | PBKS | L37 runs | 45 (24) | – | 7.4 |
Career-to-date through the 2026 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.
| 2025 | Lucknow Super Giants | ₹4.20 Cr |
| 2020 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | ₹0.20 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.
| 2026 | Retained | Lucknow Super Giants | ₹4.20 Cr |
| 2024 | Retained | Sunrisers Hyderabad | ₹4.00 Cr |
| 2023 | Retained | Sunrisers Hyderabad | ₹4.00 Cr |
| 2022 | Retained | Sunrisers Hyderabad | ₹4.00 Cr |
| 2021 | Retained | Sunrisers Hyderabad | ₹0.20 Cr |
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2026 | 71 | 859 | 19.09 | 148.62 | 2 | 13.16 |
| 2025 | 63 | 743 | 19.05 | 151.63 | 2 | 12.75 |
| 2024 | 50 | 579 | 18.68 | 145.84 | 2 | 12.56 |
| 2023 | 34 | 397 | 18.90 | 137.37 | 2 | 12.56 |
| 2022 | 25 | 228 | 13.41 | 141.61 | 2 | 12.56 |
| 2021 | 23 | 224 | 14.93 | 145.45 | 2 | 13.12 |
| 2020 | 12 | 113 | 18.83 | 168.66 | 1 | 13.71 |
What they actually did in that season alone — not the career-to-date total above. Click a season for the full breakdown.
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.
Abdul Samad is a 24-year-old batter from India, born in Kala Kot, Jammu & Kashmir on 28 October 2001. Their most recent retention on record is with Lucknow Super Giants (2026).
Across 71 IPL matches between 2020 and 2026, Abdul Samad scored 859 runs at an average of 19.1 and a strike rate of 148.6 and took 2 wickets at an economy rate of 13.16. In their latest season in our data (2026), they made 116 runs at a strike rate of 131.8.
The highest price on record is ₹4.20 Cr (retention, 2026, Lucknow Super Giants). They have been sold at auction 2 times.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Abdul Samad'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 Abdul Samad were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹5.17 Cr
likely range ₹4.00 Cr to ₹9.75 Cr
An estimate of the market price, not a promise. How it is built and how accurate it was is on the Predictor page.