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Balachandra Akhil

Kochi Tuskers Kerala

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CricOptics rating

No rating yet: fewer than five recent matches to go on.

How is this rated?

Bowler

Role

India

Country

pace · Right arm medium-fast

Bowling

–

Latest price

no price on record

–

Highest price

no price on record

2008–2011

Seen in our data

15 matches

Season summary

Their own figures in each season, one season at a time.

Season rating /10
5.4
Matches
1
Wickets
0
Economy
11.00
Overs
2.0
Runs
13

Recent matches

Their last matches in our data, newest first, each rated out of 10.

DateOpponentResultBatBowlRating /10
30 Apr 2011DDL38 runs13 (9)0/22 (2.0)5.4
24 Apr 2010DCCW9 wkts–0/6 (1.0)5.8
21 May 2009DCCW12 runs–2/18 (4.0)7.8
19 May 2009DDW7 wkts–0/20 (2.0)5.4
14 May 2009CSKW2 wkts0 (2)0/2 (1.0)5.3
12 May 2009KKRW6 wkts–1/32 (3.0)5.7
26 Apr 2009DDL6 wkts8* (4)1/8 (1.0)6.5
18 Apr 2009RRW75 runs9 (9)–5.8
28 May 2008MIL9 wkts5 (4)0/19 (3.0)5.3
25 May 2008DCCW5 wkts27* (7)0/39 (3.0)6.3

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2011 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

Batting

Matches
15
Runs
76
Average
12.67
Strike rate
138.18
Fours
5
Sixes
5

BowlingPrimary

Wickets
6
Economy
7.72
Average
40.33
Strike rate
31.33

Fielding

Catches
3
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
15
Internationals
0
Runs
76
Average
12.7
Strike rate
138.2
50s / 100s
0 / 0
Wickets
6
Economy
7.72
High score
27
Years
2008–2011

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.

No auction rows

This player has no sold-at-auction records in the dataset.

Season by season

Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.

Career-to-date stats by season
20111567.727612.67138.18
20101467.506312.60136.96
20091367.556312.60136.96
2008727.734615.33148.39

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.

This season's own stats, by season
2011011.001313.00144.44
201006.00———
200947.27178.50113.33
200827.734623.00148.39

About Balachandra Akhil

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.

Balachandra Akhil is a 41-year-old bowler from India, born in Bengaluru on 26 March 1985. They bowl right arm medium-fast.

Across 15 IPL matches between 2008 and 2011, Balachandra Akhil took 6 wickets at an economy rate of 7.72 and scored 76 runs at an average of 12.7 and a strike rate of 138.2. In their latest season in our data (2011), they made 13 runs at a strike rate of 144.4.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Balachandra Akhil'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 Balachandra Akhil were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹0.82 Cr

likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹1.35 Cr

Rank
#161 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.

Balachandra Akhil has no sold-at-auction record: they were retained, drafted or signed outside an auction, so there is no sold price to show. The estimate above uses their contracts and record instead.