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Kings XI Punjab· latest contract 2014
Bowler
Role
India
Country
pace · Right-arm medium-fast
Bowling
₹1.80 Cr
Latest price
auction · 2014 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹2.33 Cr
Highest price
auction 2011
2008–2014
Seen in our data
73 matches
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹1.80 Cr
Highest: ₹2.33 Cr (auction 2011)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 2014 | KKR | L3 wkts | – | 0/41 (4.0) | 5.0 |
| 23 May 2014 | RR | W16 runs | – | 1/37 (4.0) | 5.9 |
| 9 May 2014 | RCB | W32 runs | 1* (1) | 2/43 (3.0) | 5.8 |
| 3 May 2014 | MI | L5 wkts | – | 1/38 (4.0) | 5.9 |
| 28 Apr 2014 | RCB | W5 wkts | – | 1/17 (4.0) | 7.5 |
| 26 Apr 2014 | KKR | W23 runs | 0 (2) | 1/21 (3.0) | 5.7 |
| 22 Apr 2014 | SRH | W72 runs | – | 4/13 (4.0) | 9.7 |
| 20 Apr 2014 | RR | W7 wkts | – | 0/46 (4.0) | 4.9 |
| 18 Apr 2014 | CSK | W6 wkts | – | 2/43 (4.0) | 6.3 |
| 15 May 2013 | PWI | L7 runs | – | 1/41 (4.0) | 5.7 |
Career-to-date through the 2014 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.
| 2014 | Kings XI Punjab | ₹1.80 Cr |
| 2011 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹2.33 CrUS$500,000 |
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2014 | 73 | 76 | 8.05 | 36 | 4.50 | 73.47 |
| 2013 | 64 | 64 | 7.93 | 35 | 5.00 | 76.09 |
| 2012 | 51 | 52 | 7.99 | 26 | 4.33 | 72.22 |
| 2011 | 43 | 41 | 8.55 | 26 | 4.33 | 72.22 |
| 2010 | 29 | 31 | 8.64 | 22 | 3.67 | 64.71 |
| 2009 | 22 | 24 | 8.56 | 4 | 1.00 | 28.57 |
| 2008 | 9 | 11 | 8.67 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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.
Lakshmipathy Balaji is a 45-year-old bowler from India, born in Chennai on 27 September 1981. They bowl right-arm medium-fast. Their most recent auction on record is with Kings XI Punjab (2014).
Across 73 IPL matches between 2008 and 2014, Lakshmipathy Balaji took 76 wickets at an economy rate of 8.05 and scored 36 runs at an average of 4.5 and a strike rate of 73.5. In their latest season in our data (2014), they made 1 runs at a strike rate of 33.3 and 12 wickets at an economy of 8.79.
The highest price on record is ₹2.33 Cr (auction, 2011, Kolkata Knight Riders); the latest is ₹1.80 Cr (auction, 2014). They have been sold at auction 2 times.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Lakshmipathy Balaji'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 Lakshmipathy Balaji were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹4.00 Cr
likely range ₹2.50 Cr to ₹5.22 Cr
Not in the active pool (no contract or recent season), so this is priced from their last record: low confidence.
Recent form lifts this from #126 on contracts alone.
An estimate of the market price, not a promise. How it is built and how accurate it was is on the Predictor page.