SMAT Watch

Prospect Pipeline

Domestic players with limited IPL experience (<10 innings), ranked by projected WAR/M. These are the SMAT performers our model thinks could make an IPL impact — 50 prospects tracked from domestic T20 matches.

Source: SMAT (Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy) · Competition discount: 0.4x · Age cutoff: ≤30 · Min 60 balls

50
Prospects Tracked
+0.46
Top Prospect WAR/M
11
SR 140+ Power Hitters
32
Rising Trajectory
# ▲PlayerRoleIPL InnProj WAR/M2027pTrajSMAT SRSMAT AvgInningsEconWktsConf
1
Age TBD · 63 balls
batter—
+0.46
+0.46declining100.031.52——
2
Age TBD · 2 balls
bowler5
+0.34
+0.34declining50.0—14.6715
3
Age TBD · 678 balls
batter9
+0.30
+0.30rising140.731.833——
4
Age TBD · 599 balls
batter4
+0.30
+0.30rising153.643.8286.33—
5
Age TBD · 92 balls
batter—
+0.28
+0.28rising144.613.3115.803
6
Age TBD · 23 balls
bowler1
+0.27
+0.27declining165.29.547.804
7
Age TBD · 223 balls
allrounder—
+0.26
+0.26rising114.828.4127.2416
8
Age TBD · 401 balls
batter3
+0.26
+0.26rising152.420.431——
9
Age TBD · 578 balls
batter—
+0.24
+0.24rising117.834.0268.502
10
Age TBD · 156 balls
batter—
+0.24
+0.24rising105.827.565.672
11
Age TBD · 31 balls
allrounder—
+0.22
+0.22rising154.816.048.505
12
Age TBD · 15 balls
bowler—
+0.22
+0.22stable113.38.547.3335
13
Age TBD · 748 balls
batter—
+0.22
+0.22rising129.129.3355.75—
14
Age TBD · 250 balls
bowler—
+0.21
+0.21rising125.613.1295.7547
15
Age TBD · 56 balls
bowler—
+0.21
+0.21declining139.339.055.859
16
Age TBD · 104 balls
batter—
+0.21
+0.21rising118.341.037.50—
17
Age TBD · 349 balls
batter—
+0.21
+0.21rising146.728.422——
18
Age TBD · 4 balls
bowler—
+0.21
+0.21declining150.0—17.431
19
Age TBD · 371 balls
allrounder—
+0.21
+0.21declining142.924.1326.8430
20
Age TBD · 225 balls
allrounder—
+0.20
+0.20rising122.717.2186.7428
21
Age TBD · 8 balls
bowler—
+0.20
+0.20rising50.0—46.0647
22
Age TBD · 683 balls
batter—
+0.20
+0.20rising128.030.132——
23
Age TBD · 538 balls
batter—
+0.20
+0.20rising126.432.4267.091
24
Age TBD · 32 balls
bowler—
+0.20
+0.20stable71.97.747.147
25
Age TBD · 127 balls
allrounder—
+0.19
+0.19rising132.324.096.257
26
Age TBD · 0 balls
bowler6
+0.19
+0.19declining——07.443
27
Age TBD · 32 balls
bowler8
+0.19
+0.19rising106.217.066.7234
28
Age TBD · 250 balls
batter—
+0.19
+0.19rising113.631.610——
29
Age TBD · 30 balls
bowler—
+0.19
+0.19declining56.74.255.9916
30
Age TBD · 127 balls
bowler—
+0.19
+0.19rising121.311.0167.3931
31
Age TBD · 355 balls
batter—
+0.19
+0.19rising136.930.4219.671
32
Age TBD · 39 balls
bowler—
+0.19
+0.19stable205.180.038.138
33
Age TBD · 608 balls
batter—
+0.19
+0.19rising136.737.832——
34
Age TBD · 24 balls
bowler—
+0.19
+0.19rising79.26.345.3912
35
Age TBD · 86 balls
bowler—
+0.19
+0.19rising129.115.9106.449
36
Age TBD · 733 balls
batter—
+0.18
+0.18declining127.429.23511.33—
37
Age TBD · 4 balls
bowler—
+0.18
+0.18rising50.02.015.4215
38
Age TBD · 501 balls
allrounder—
+0.18
+0.18rising117.029.3237.275
39
Age TBD · 814 balls
batter8
+0.18
+0.18declining130.137.837——
40
Age TBD · 626 balls
allrounder1
+0.18
+0.18declining120.926.1366.6717
41
Age TBD · 15 balls
bowler—
+0.18
+0.18declining66.710.067.2318
42
Age TBD · 528 balls
batter6
+0.18
+0.18declining145.338.4277.26—
43
Age TBD · 422 balls
batter—
+0.18
+0.18stable125.129.3206.576
44
Age TBD · 10 balls
bowler—
+0.18
+0.18rising40.04.036.3632
45
Age TBD · 287 balls
batter—
+0.18
+0.18rising119.918.121——
46
Age TBD · 8 balls
bowler—
+0.17
+0.17rising37.51.536.739
47
Age TBD · 89 balls
bowler3
+0.17
+0.17rising124.713.9116.3837
48
Age TBD · 131 balls
bowler—
+0.17
+0.17declining77.97.8166.0029
49
Age TBD · 32 balls
bowler—
+0.17
+0.17rising90.67.256.0812
50
Age TBD · 40 balls
bowler—
+0.17
+0.17rising85.011.336.047
SMAT Watch Methodology
Prospects are identified from SMAT (Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy) domestic T20 data. Players with fewer than 10 IPL innings are evaluated using the same WAR model with a 0.4x competition quality discount. The model projects what their domestic WPA would translate to at the IPL level, accounting for strength-of-competition.