IPL 2018 Auction: Best buys by each IPL team

#8 Lungisani Ngidi (50 lac) – Chennai Super Kings

New kid on the blog

This is perhaps the steal of the season. How his signature didn’t wage a bidding war and how he, subsequently, couldn’t fetch more money than he did, is quite astonishing. To some, he might just be a new kid on the block that shook the Indian batting line-up in South Africa.

But he is so much more than just that.

This is a youngster that has a clever head on his shoulders and knows the areas to target while bowling. His numbers in the shortest format of the game speaks volumes about his importance in the format.

In 3 T20Is, he has 6 wickets at an average of 7.33 and an economy of just 5.5 runs-per-over. But that is a little too few games to use as a measurement to judge him.

However, in 38 T20 innings, he has taken 43 wickets at an average of 19.41 and an economy-rate of 7.23 runs-per-over. So you see, he is a new entity that is yet to be figured out by the batsmen—and Chennai Super Kings could take advantage of that.

And they will.