Varun Chakravarthy
Kolkata Knight Riders· latest contract 2026
CricOptics rating
4.2 / 5
Rated as a bowler · 32 matches in the last year, newest weighted most
How is this rated?Bowler
Role
India
Country
spin · Right-arm leg-break
Bowling
₹12.00 Cr
Latest price
retention · 2026 · IPL 2027 not announced yet
₹12.00 Cr
Highest price
retention 2026
2019–2026
Seen in our data
94 matches
Price history
What this player was paid, season by season.
Latest: ₹12.00 Cr
Highest: ₹12.00 Cr (retention 2026)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 May 2026 | DC | L40 runs | 5 (5) | 1/35 (4.0) | 5.6 |
| 20 May 2026 | MI | W4 wkts | – | 0/28 (4.0) | 6.1 |
| 16 May 2026 | GT | W29 runs | – | 0/47 (4.0) | 4.9 |
| 8 May 2026 | DC | W8 wkts | – | 0/28 (4.0) | 6.1 |
| 3 May 2026 | SRH | W7 wkts | – | 3/36 (4.0) | 7.6 |
| 26 Apr 2026 | LSG | T | – | 2/33 (4.0) | 7.2 |
| 19 Apr 2026 | RR | W4 wkts | – | 3/14 (4.0) | 9.3 |
| 17 Apr 2026 | GT | L5 wkts | – | 2/34 (4.0) | 7.0 |
| 14 Apr 2026 | CSK | L32 runs | – | 0/26 (3.0) | 5.7 |
| 2 Apr 2026 | SRH | L65 runs | 0 (1) | 0/31 (2.0) | 3.6 |
Career stats
Career-to-date through the 2026 season, from ball-by-ball match data.
Batting
- Matches
- 94
- Runs
- 31
- Average
- 5.17
- Strike rate
- 58.49
- Fours
- 3
- Sixes
- 0
BowlingPrimary
- Wickets
- 111
- Economy
- 7.72
- Average
- 24.73
- Strike rate
- 19.23
Fielding
- Catches
- 15
- 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
- 143
- Internationals
- 46
- Runs
- 40
- Average
- 3.3
- Strike rate
- 48.8
- 50s / 100s
- 0 / 0
- Wickets
- 190
- Economy
- 7.68
- High score
- 10
- Years
- 2019–2026
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.
| 2020 | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹4.00 Cr |
| 2019 | Kings XI Punjab | ₹8.40 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.
| 2026 | Retained | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹12.00 Cr |
| 2025 | Retained | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹12.00 Cr |
| 2023 | Retained | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹8.00 Cr |
| 2022 | Retained | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹8.00 Cr |
| 2021 | Retained | Kolkata Knight Riders | ₹4.00 Cr |
| 2020 | Released | Kings XI Punjab | ₹8.40 Cr |
Season by season
Career-to-date totals at the end of each season they played.
| 2026 | 94 | 111 | 7.72 | 31 | 5.17 | 58.49 |
| 2025 | 83 | 100 | 7.58 | 26 | 6.50 | 55.32 |
| 2024 | 70 | 83 | 7.56 | 25 | 6.25 | 54.35 |
| 2023 | 56 | 62 | 7.45 | 25 | 6.25 | 54.35 |
| 2022 | 42 | 42 | 7.23 | 24 | 8.00 | 64.86 |
| 2021 | 31 | 36 | 6.82 | 12 | 4.00 | 63.16 |
| 2020 | 14 | 18 | 7.11 | 10 | 5.00 | 66.67 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 11.67 | 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.
About Varun Chakravarthy
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.
Varun Chakravarthy is a 35-year-old bowler from India, born in Bidar on 29 August 1991. They bowl right-arm leg-break. Their most recent retention on record is with Kolkata Knight Riders (2026).
Across 94 IPL matches between 2019 and 2026, Varun Chakravarthy took 111 wickets at an economy rate of 7.72 and scored 31 runs at an average of 5.2 and a strike rate of 58.5. In their latest season in our data (2026), they made 5 runs at a strike rate of 83.3 and 11 wickets at an economy of 8.78.
The highest price on record is ₹12.00 Cr (retention, 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders). They have been sold at auction 2 times.
IPL 2027 retentions have not been announced yet, so Varun Chakravarthy'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 Varun Chakravarthy were in the IPL 2027 auction
₹12.25 Cr
likely range ₹9.25 Cr to ₹18.00 Cr
- Rank
- #34 of 168 active players
- Current salary
- ₹12.00 Cr
Recent form lifts this from #39 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.