IPL 2019: 5 unsold players from last season who might be hot properties at this year's auction

1. Jonny Bairstow

Jonny Bairstow

Bairstow is the third highest run-getter in ODIs this year; he has slammed 1025 in 22 matches at an average of 46.59, with his highest score being 139. The wicketkeeper-batsman has also registered four centuries and two half-centuries to his name in 2018.

In the recently concluded T10 league at Sharjah, the Englishman scored 84 off 24 in one of the games and registered the highest T10 score, which was subsequently broken by his compatriot Alex Hales (87 off 32).

Moreover, Bairstow's century (110) against hosts Sri Lanka in the third and final Test of the series last month helped England clinch the series 3-0.

Bairstow went unsold at the 2018 auctions with a base price of INR 1.5 crore. The explosive Yorkshire wicket-keeper batsman, who has amassed 1649 T20 runs in his career, will be one of the hottest properties at the 2019 auctions given his consistency with the bat as well as his smart work behind the stumps.