Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Punjab Kings· latest contract 2023
CricOptics rating
3.6 / 5
Rated as a batter · 9 matches in the last year, newest weighted most
How is this rated?Batter
Role
Sri Lanka
Country
pace · Right-arm medium
Bowling
₹0.50 Cr
Latest price
retention · 2023 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹0.50 Cr
Highest price
retention 2023
2022–2023
Seen in our data
13 matches
Price history
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹0.50 Cr
Highest: ₹0.50 Cr (retention 2023)
Auction prices and retention or trade salaries share the line. A retention is a negotiated salary, not a bid.
Season summary
Their own figures in each season, one season at a time.
Recent matches
Their last matches in our data, newest first, each rated out of 10.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Bat | Bowl | Rating /10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2023 | KKR | L5 wkts | 0 (3) | – | – |
| 13 Apr 2023 | GT | L6 wkts | 20 (26) | – | 3.6 |
| 5 Apr 2023 | RR | W5 runs | 1* (1) | – | – |
| 1 Apr 2023 | KKR | W7 runs | 50 (32) | – | 7.0 |
| 16 May 2022 | DC | L17 runs | 4 (5) | – | – |
| 13 May 2022 | RCB | W54 runs | 1 (3) | – | – |
| 7 May 2022 | RR | L6 wkts | 27 (18) | – | 6.6 |
| 3 May 2022 | GT | W8 wkts | 40 (28) | – | 6.6 |
| 29 Apr 2022 | LSG | L20 runs | 9 (7) | – | 6.0 |
| 25 Apr 2022 | CSK | W11 runs | 42 (32) | – | 6.0 |
Career stats
Career-to-date through the 2023 season, from ball-by-ball match data.
BattingPrimary
- Matches
- 13
- Runs
- 277
- Average
- 23.08
- Strike rate
- 145.03
- Fours
- 22
- Sixes
- 15
Bowling
- Wickets
- 0
- Economy
- —
- Average
- —
- Strike rate
- —
Fielding
- Catches
- 4
- Stumpings
- 0
All T20 cricket
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.
- Matches
- 155
- Internationals
- 41
- Runs
- 2822
- Average
- 22.4
- Strike rate
- 137.3
- 50s / 100s
- 13 / 0
- Wickets
- 1
- Economy
- 9.71
- High score
- 96
- Years
- 2019–2026
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.
Auction history
Every auction this player was sold at, from the dataset.
| 2022 | Punjab Kings | ₹0.50 Cr |
Retentions, trades and releases
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.
| 2024 | Released | Punjab Kings | ₹0.50 Cr |
| 2023 | Retained | Punjab Kings | ₹0.50 Cr |
Season by season
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2023 | 13 | 277 | 23.08 | 145.03 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 9 | 206 | 22.89 | 159.69 | 0 | — |
This season's stats
What they actually did in that season alone — not the career-to-date total above. Click a season for the full breakdown.
About Bhanuka Rajapaksa
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.
Bhanuka Rajapaksa is a 35-year-old batter from Sri Lanka, born in Colombo on 24 October 1991. Their most recent retention on record is with Punjab Kings (2023).
Across 13 IPL matches between 2022 and 2023, Bhanuka Rajapaksa scored 277 runs at an average of 23.1 and a strike rate of 145.0. In their latest season in our data (2023), they made 71 runs at a strike rate of 114.5.
The highest price on record is ₹50 lakh (retention, 2023, Punjab Kings). They have been sold at auction 1 time.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Bhanuka Rajapaksa's 2027 contract is not on record.
Auction value
What this player would likely go for in the next auction, from the same market model as the Predictor page.
If Bhanuka Rajapaksa were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹1.38 Cr
likely range ₹0.82 Cr to ₹2.00 Cr
- Rank
- #144 of 168 active players
- Current salary
- none on record
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.