Murugan Ashwin

Rajasthan Royals· latest contract 2023

BWLIPL

CricOptics rating

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

How is this rated?

Bowler

Role

India

Country

spin · Legbreak Googly

Bowling

₹0.20 Cr

Latest price

auction · 2023 · IPL 2027 not announced yet

₹4.50 Cr

Highest price

auction 2016

2016–2023

Seen in our data

44 matches

Price history

What this player was paid, season by season.

Latest: ₹0.20 Cr

Highest: ₹4.50 Cr (auction 2016)

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

5.0

Matches

Wickets

Economy

13.25

Overs

4.0

Runs

–

Recent matches

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

Date	Opponent	Result	Bat	Bowl	Rating /10
7 May 2023	SRH	L4 wkts	–	0/42 (3.0)	4.2
8 Apr 2023	DC	W57 runs	–	0/11 (1.0)	5.7
9 May 2022	KKR	L52 runs	0 (2)	1/35 (4.0)	5.5
6 May 2022	GT	W5 runs	–	2/29 (4.0)	7.2
16 Apr 2022	LSG	L18 runs	6 (2)	1/33 (4.0)	5.8
13 Apr 2022	PBKS	L12 runs	0* (2)	1/34 (4.0)	5.9
9 Apr 2022	RCB	L7 wkts	–	0/26 (3.0)	5.6
6 Apr 2022	KKR	L5 wkts	–	2/25 (3.0)	6.9
2 Apr 2022	RR	L23 runs	6* (8)	0/32 (3.0)	4.2
27 Mar 2022	DC	L4 wkts	–	2/14 (4.0)	8.5

Career stats

Career-to-date through the 2023 season, from ball-by-ball match data.

Batting

Matches: 44
Runs: 35
Average: 3.89
Strike rate: 70.00
Fours: 2
Sixes: 1

BowlingPrimary

Wickets: 35
Economy: 8.01
Average: 33.20
Strike rate: 24.86

Fielding

Catches: 7
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: 82
Internationals: 0
Runs: 77
Average: 5.5
Strike rate: 71.3
50s / 100s: 0 / 0
Wickets: 79
Economy: 7.42
High score: 14
Years: 2016–2023

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

2023	Rajasthan Royals	BWL	₹0.20 Cr	₹0.20 Cr
2022	Mumbai Indians	BWL	₹0.20 Cr	₹1.60 Cr
2019	Kings XI Punjab	BWL	₹0.20 Cr	₹0.20 Cr
2018	Royal Challengers Bangalore	BWL	₹0.20 Cr	₹2.20 Cr
2017	Delhi Daredevils	BWL	₹0.10 Cr	₹1.00 Cr
2016	Rising Pune Supergiants		₹0.10 Cr	₹4.50 Cr

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	Released	Rajasthan Royals	₹0.20 Cr	₹ 20 lakh (US$21,000)
2023	Released	Mumbai Indians	₹1.60 Cr	₹1.60 crore
2021	Retained	Punjab Kings	₹0.20 Cr	₹ 20 lakh (US$21,000)
2020	Retained	Kings XI Punjab	₹0.20 Cr	₹ 20 lakh (US$20,768.50)
2019	Released	Royal Challengers Bangalore	₹2.20 Cr	₹ 2.2 crore (US$228,453.50)

Season by season

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

Career-to-date stats by season

2023	44	35	8.01	33.20	35	3.89	70.00	1
2022	42	35	7.87	31.69	35	3.89	70.00	1
2021	34	26	7.87	33.88	23	3.83	63.89	0
2020	31	25	7.76	31.36	8	2.00	66.67	0
2019	22	15	7.90	36.60	4	1.33	50.00	0
2018	12	10	8.28	29.40	1	0.50	33.33	0
2016	10	7	8.46	34.43	0	0.00	0.00	0

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

2023	0	13.25	—	—	—
2022	9	7.86	12	6.00	85.71
2021	1	8.82	15	7.50	62.50
2020	10	7.46	4	4.00	100.00
2019	5	7.50	3	3.00	60.00
2018	3	7.57	1	1.00	50.00
2016	7	8.46	0	0.00	0.00

About Murugan Ashwin

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.

Murugan Ashwin is a 36-year-old bowler from India, born in Chennai on 8 September 1990. They bowl legbreak googly. Their most recent auction on record is with Rajasthan Royals (2023).

Across 44 IPL matches between 2016 and 2023, Murugan Ashwin took 35 wickets at an economy rate of 8.01 and scored 35 runs at an average of 3.9 and a strike rate of 70.0.

The highest price on record is ₹4.50 Cr (auction, 2016, Rising Pune Supergiants); the latest is ₹20 lakh (auction, 2023). They have been sold at auction 6 times.

IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Murugan Ashwin'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 Murugan Ashwin were in the IPL 2027 auction

₹1.15 Cr

likely range ₹0.75 Cr to ₹1.65 Cr

Rank: #150 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 #152 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

₹0.20 Cr

IPL 2023

CricOptics rating

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