Shoaib Akhtar
Kolkata Knight Riders· latest contract 2008
Bowler
Role
Pakistan
Country
pace · Right-arm fast
Bowling
₹1.85 Cr
Latest price
auction · 2008 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹1.85 Cr
Highest price
auction 2008
2008
Seen in our data
3 matches
Price history
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹1.85 Cr
Highest: ₹1.85 Cr (auction 2008)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2008 | CSK | L3 runs | – | 0/14 (2.0) | 5.7 |
| 16 May 2008 | MI | L8 wkts | 2 (7) | 1/29 (2.0) | 4.8 |
| 13 May 2008 | DD | W23 runs | – | 4/11 (3.0) | 9.4 |
Career stats
Career-to-date through the 2008 season, from ball-by-ball match data.
Batting
- Matches
- 3
- Runs
- 2
- Average
- 2.00
- Strike rate
- 28.57
- Fours
- 0
- Sixes
- 0
BowlingPrimary
- Wickets
- 5
- Economy
- 7.71
- Average
- 10.80
- Strike rate
- 8.40
Fielding
- Catches
- 0
- 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
- 17
- Internationals
- 14
- Runs
- 23
- Average
- 5.8
- Strike rate
- 100.0
- 50s / 100s
- 0 / 0
- Wickets
- 22
- Economy
- 8.31
- High score
- 8
- Years
- 2006–2010
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.
| 2008 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹1.85 CrUS$425,000 |
Season by season
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2008 | 3 | 5 | 7.71 | 2 | 2.00 | 28.57 |
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.
| 2008 | 5 | 7.71 | 2 | 2.00 | 28.57 |
About Shoaib Akhtar
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.
Shoaib Akhtar is a 51-year-old bowler from Pakistan, born in Rawalpindi on 13 August 1975. They bowl right-arm fast. Their most recent auction on record is with Kolkata Knight Riders (2008).
Across 3 IPL matches in 2008, Shoaib Akhtar took 5 wickets at an economy rate of 7.71 and scored 2 runs at an average of 2.0 and a strike rate of 28.6.
The highest price on record is ₹1.85 Cr (auction, 2008, Kolkata Knight Riders). They have been sold at auction 1 time.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Shoaib Akhtar'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 Shoaib Akhtar 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.
Auctioned in US dollars; the rupee figure is converted at the 2008 average rate.