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Tatenda Taibu

Kolkata Knight Riders· latest contract 2008

WKIPL

CricOptics rating

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

How is this rated?

Wicketkeeper

Role

Zimbabwe

Country

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Bowling

₹0.54 Cr

Latest price

auction · 2008 · IPL 2027 not announced yet

₹0.54 Cr

Highest price

auction 2008

2008

Seen in our data

3 matches

Price history

What this player was paid, season by season.

Latest: ₹0.54 Cr

Highest: ₹0.54 Cr (auction 2008)

0₹0.5 Cr₹1 Cr2008

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.

Season rating /10
5.8
Matches
3
Runs
31
Strike rate
119.2
Average
10.3
Wickets
–

Recent matches

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

DateOpponentResultBatBowlRating /10
13 May 2008DDW23 runs7 (9)–5.5
11 May 2008DCCW23 runs9 (5)––
8 May 2008RCBW5 runs15 (12)–6.1

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2008 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

BattingPrimary

Matches
3
Runs
31
Average
10.33
Strike rate
119.23
Fours
3
Sixes
0

Bowling

Wickets
0
Economy
—
Average
—
Strike rate
—

FieldingPrimary

Catches
1
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
16
Internationals
13
Runs
196
Average
19.6
Strike rate
108.3
50s / 100s
0 / 0
Wickets
0
Economy
10.25
High score
45
Years
2007–2012

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.

Auction history
2008
Kolkata Knight Riders
₹0.54 CrUS$125,000

Season by season

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

Career-to-date stats by season
200833110.33119.230—

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
20083110.33119.23——

About Tatenda Taibu

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.

Tatenda Taibu is a 43-year-old wicketkeeper from Zimbabwe, born in Harare on 14 May 1983. Their most recent auction on record is with Kolkata Knight Riders (2008).

Across 3 IPL matches in 2008, Tatenda Taibu scored 31 runs at an average of 10.3 and a strike rate of 119.2.

The highest price on record is ₹54.388 lakh (auction, 2008, Kolkata Knight Riders). They have been sold at auction 1 time.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Tatenda Taibu'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 Tatenda Taibu were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹0.75 Cr

likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹0.85 Cr

Rank
#169 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.

Sold for
₹0.54 Cr
US$125,000 · IPL 2008
CricOptics rating
—
not enough recent matches

Auctioned in US dollars; the rupee figure is converted at the 2008 average rate.