5 surprising overseas players in the 2019 IPL auction 

Lewis Gregory

Lewis Gregory

The 26-year-old English all-rounder represents Somerset in the domestic circuit and has been one of the star performers with both bat and the ball across formats. Gregory, who made his T20 debut in June 2011 has so far played 79 T20s scoring 969 runs while picking up 75 wickets. An experienced campaigner, he has 1942 First-class (in 71 matches) and 870 List A runs (in 60 matches) to his name.

The right-arm fast medium bowler has been equally good with the ball taking 204 wickets in First-class cricket and 88 wickets in List A cricket. Though he was called up to the England squad once (for the one-off ODI against Ireland back in 2015), he did make the XI.

The uncapped all-rounder has a base price of INR 40 lakhs at the 2019 IPL auctions and courtesy his experience as well as the all-round credentials, Gregory might be one of the hottest properties at the season twelve auction.