IPL 2018: 11 cricketers who had a forgettable IPL

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10) Jaydev Unadkat (15 bowling innings, 11 wickets, E/R of 9.65)

708 Test wickets between them.

The most expensive Indian player to be picked up in the auction had an absolute stinker of a season. His sudden success at the last IPL was something that was hard to fathom, what was making him successful? His slower-ball cutters picked up a lot of wickets, especially as the batsmen targeted him as a rookie bowler. Unadkat tried the same thing this year and got absolutely battered. Batsmen grew smarter and started predicting Unadkat’s lengths much more easily and once that happened, the pacer from Porbandar couldn’t find a way out. Not the first person from his state to falter at the biggest stage in the last few years.

11) Mohit Sharma (9 bowling Innings, 7 wickets, E/R of 10.85)

Mohit Sharma took a fair beating this IPL.

KXIP helped CSK dodge a massive bullet here, one that could potentially have meant CSK not winning the title. One signing that could have changed the course of IPL 2018. After CSK decided to buy Mohit Sharma for a value of 2.4 crores in the 2018 auction, KXIP snooped in with their Right-to-Match (RTM) card to reacquire his services. To be fair, Mohit did entertain the spectators as he splattered hit-me deliveries throughout this IPL. Mohit’s debut IPL season in 2013 was probably his most successful one, where he operated as much as possible in the Powerplay overs. But with his franchise hell-bent on bowling him at the death, it doesn’t look like an RTM card will ever be used on him again.

Honorable mentions (substitute bench):

Gautam Gambhir (5 innings, 85 runs, S/R of 96.59)

Axar Patel (8 batting innings, 80 runs, S/R of 115.94; 8 bowling innings, 3 wickets, E/R of 8.38)

Mayank Agarwal (11 innings, 120 runs, S/R of 127.65)

D’Arcy Short (7 innings, 115 runs, S/R of 116.16)

Imran Tahir (6 innings, 6 wickets, E/R of 9.09)

Aaron Finch (9 innings, 134 runs, S/R of 134)

Sam Billings (8 innings, 108 runs, S/R of 138.46)

Deepak Hooda (8 innings, 87 runs, S/R of 107.40; 2 bowling innings, 0 wickets, E/R of 8)

Tom Curran (5 innings, 6 wickets, E/R of 11.60)