IPL 2018: 5 players with the worst cost-to-performance ratio

#3 Ben Stokes

The costliest player of this IPL has been a source of major disappointment for the Royals

The costliest player of the 2018 IPL auction, Ben Stokes has not had the same impact he had the previous year at Pune.

Bought for a staggering ₹12.5 crores by the Rajasthan Royals, Stokes was the all-rounder around which the Royals revolved. But despite handy knocks here and there, Stokes has been a failure this season.

Scoring a mere 196 runs this season, Stokes (along with Buttler) left the RR squad before the playoffs and wasn't able to take them through to the qualifiers either. His bowling this season has been a letdown as well - 8 wickets in 222 balls is hardly anything to brag about.

The reason why Rajasthan invested so much was his debut performance in the IPL last year - 316 runs and 12 wickets. From that, it has been a steep fall for Stokes, and subsequently for RR.

Assuming Stokes was granted equal money as a batsman and as a bowler, this translates to around 3 Lakhs and 20 thousand for every run he has scored and just above 78 lakhs for every wicket he has taken.