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Nuwan Kulasekara

Chennai Super Kings· latest contract 2011

BWLIPL

CricOptics rating

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

How is this rated?

Bowler

Role

Sri Lanka

Country

pace · Right-arm fast-medium

Bowling

₹0.47 Cr

Latest price

auction · 2011 · IPL 2027 not announced yet

₹0.47 Cr

Highest price

auction 2011

2011–2012

Seen in our data

5 matches

Price history

What this player was paid, season by season.

Latest: ₹0.47 Cr

Highest: ₹0.47 Cr (auction 2011)

0₹0.5 Cr₹1 Cr2011

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
6.6
Matches
4
Wickets
4
Economy
6.71
Overs
14.0
Runs
5

Recent matches

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

DateOpponentResultBatBowlRating /10
28 Apr 2012KXIPL7 runs5* (3)1/29 (4.0)6.4
21 Apr 2012RRW7 wkts–1/17 (4.0)7.4
19 Apr 2012PWIW13 runs–2/10 (2.0)7.3
14 Apr 2012PWIL7 wkts–0/38 (4.0)5.3
27 Apr 2011PWIW8 wkts–1/26 (3.0)5.9

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2012 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

Batting

Matches
5
Runs
5
Average
—
Strike rate
166.67
Fours
1
Sixes
0

BowlingPrimary

Wickets
5
Economy
7.06
Average
24.00
Strike rate
20.40

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
71
Internationals
56
Runs
201
Average
9.1
Strike rate
109.2
50s / 100s
0 / 0
Wickets
86
Economy
7.23
High score
31
Years
2008–2017

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
2011
Chennai Super Kings
₹0.47 CrUS$100,000

Season by season

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

Career-to-date stats by season
2012557.065—166.67
2011118.670——

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
201246.715—166.67
201118.67———

About Nuwan Kulasekara

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.

Nuwan Kulasekara is a 44-year-old bowler from Sri Lanka, born in Nittambuwa on 22 July 1982. They bowl right-arm fast-medium. Their most recent auction on record is with Chennai Super Kings (2011).

Across 5 IPL matches between 2011 and 2012, Nuwan Kulasekara took 5 wickets at an economy rate of 7.06 and scored 5 runs and a strike rate of 166.7. In their latest season in our data (2012), they made 5 runs at a strike rate of 166.7 and 4 wickets at an economy of 6.71.

The highest price on record is ₹46.67 lakh (auction, 2011, Chennai Super Kings). They have been sold at auction 1 time.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Nuwan Kulasekara'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 Nuwan Kulasekara were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹0.78 Cr

likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹1.15 Cr

Rank
#164 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.

Recent form lifts this from #165 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.

Sold for
₹0.47 Cr
US$100,000 · IPL 2011
CricOptics rating
—
not enough recent matches

Auctioned in US dollars; the rupee figure is converted at the 2011 average rate.