IPL 2018: Top 5 expensive bowling spells in League stages

#2 Umesh Yadav (4-0-59-0)

Umesh Yadav

Turning out for Royal Challengers Bangalore in this year's IPL, Umesh Yadav had the best IPL season of his career so far and ended up as second highest wicket-taker in IPL 2018 with 20 wickets from 14 matches at an excellent average of 15.95.

But Umesh Yadav did have his rare off-days with the bowl in IPL 2018, and one of those rare off-days was in a match against Rajasthan Royals at M. Chinnaswamy stadium.

In that particular match, Rajasthan Royals batsmen piled up a huge score of 217/4 in 20 overs, and Umesh Yadav, in particular, was taken to cleaners by Sanju Samson in the death overs and ended up bowling an expensive spell of 4-0-59-0.

Such was the impact of Sanju Samson's assault, that Virat Kohli rarely trusted Umesh Yadav to bowl at the death overs in the later matches, as Mohammed Siraj and Tim Southee took over the mantle of bowling at death overs for RCB in IPL 2018.