Vinay Kumar
Royal Challengers Bengaluru· latest contract 2024
Bowler
Role
India
Country
pace · Right-arm medium-fast
Bowling
₹0.70 Cr
Latest price
retention · 2024 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹5.34 Cr
Highest price
auction 2012
2008–2018
Seen in our data
104 matches
Price history
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹0.70 Cr
Highest: ₹5.34 Cr (auction 2012)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Apr 2018 | CSK | L5 wkts | – | 0/35 (1.5) | 4.1 |
| 8 Apr 2018 | RCB | W4 wkts | 6* (3) | 2/30 (2.0) | 6.2 |
| 13 May 2017 | KKR | W9 runs | – | 2/31 (3.0) | 6.4 |
| 21 May 2016 | GL | L6 wkts | 1* (1) | 2/17 (3.0) | 7.4 |
| 15 May 2016 | DD | W80 runs | – | 1/33 (4.0) | 6.2 |
| 9 Apr 2016 | RPS | L9 wkts | 12 (11) | 0/14 (2.0) | 5.4 |
| 24 May 2015 | CSK | W41 runs | – | 1/39 (4.0) | 5.9 |
| 19 May 2015 | CSK | W25 runs | – | 2/26 (3.0) | 6.9 |
| 17 May 2015 | SRH | W9 wkts | – | 0/21 (3.0) | 5.9 |
| 14 May 2015 | KKR | W5 runs | – | 1/33 (4.0) | 6.2 |
Career stats
Career-to-date through the 2018 season, from ball-by-ball match data.
Batting
- Matches
- 104
- Runs
- 310
- Average
- 11.07
- Strike rate
- 113.14
- Fours
- 21
- Sixes
- 9
BowlingPrimary
- Wickets
- 105
- Economy
- 8.42
- Average
- 28.44
- Strike rate
- 20.26
Fielding
- Catches
- 32
- 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
- 141
- Internationals
- 9
- Runs
- 573
- Average
- 14.7
- Strike rate
- 118.1
- 50s / 100s
- 0 / 0
- Wickets
- 149
- Economy
- 8.05
- High score
- 38
- Years
- 2008–2019
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.
| 2023 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | ₹0.20 Cr |
| 2022 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹0.20 Cr |
| 2018 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹1.00 Cr |
| 2014 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹2.80 Cr |
| 2012 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | ₹5.34 CrUS$1,000,000 |
| 2011 | Kochi Tuskers Kerala | ₹2.22 CrUS$475,000 |
Retentions, trades and releases
How this player arrived at (or left) a team when it was not an auction. A retention is a negotiated salary capped by the retention rules — it is not an auction price, and the two are not comparable.
| 2024 | Retained | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | ₹0.70 Cr |
| 2023 | Released | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹0.20 Cr |
| 2015 | Traded | Mumbai Indiansfrom Kolkata Knight Riders | not published |
Season by season
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2018 | 104 | 105 | 8.42 | 310 | 11.07 | 113.14 |
| 2017 | 102 | 103 | 8.33 | 304 | 10.86 | 112.18 |
| 2016 | 101 | 101 | 8.31 | 304 | 10.86 | 112.18 |
| 2015 | 98 | 98 | 8.34 | 291 | 10.78 | 112.36 |
| 2014 | 85 | 91 | 8.33 | 291 | 11.19 | 113.23 |
| 2013 | 76 | 84 | 8.27 | 287 | 11.96 | 114.34 |
| 2012 | 60 | 61 | 8.24 | 217 | 9.43 | 104.83 |
| 2011 | 46 | 42 | 8.10 | 149 | 8.28 | 102.76 |
| 2010 | 33 | 30 | 8.36 | 99 | 8.25 | 101.02 |
| 2009 | 19 | 14 | 8.19 | 72 | 9.00 | 109.09 |
| 2008 | 8 | 5 | 7.91 | 25 | 8.33 | 113.64 |
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.
About Vinay Kumar
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.
Vinay Kumar is a 42-year-old bowler from India, born in Davangere on 12 February 1984. They bowl right-arm medium-fast. Their most recent retention on record is with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (2024).
Across 104 IPL matches between 2008 and 2018, Vinay Kumar took 105 wickets at an economy rate of 8.42 and scored 310 runs at an average of 11.1 and a strike rate of 113.1. In their latest season in our data (2018), they made 6 runs at a strike rate of 200.0 and 2 wickets at an economy of 16.96.
The highest price on record is ₹5.34 Cr (auction, 2012, Royal Challengers Bangalore); the latest is ₹70 lakh (retention, 2024). They have been sold at auction 6 times.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Vinay Kumar'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 Vinay Kumar were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹0.85 Cr
likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹1.38 Cr
- Rank
- #160 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.