IPL 2020 auction: 5 top buys from 2019 who might be released by their franchises

#4 Axar Patel

There was a time when it seemed left-arm spinner Axar Patel was on the verge of becoming a constant fixture in the Indian team. He bowled a tidy line with the ball, and could chip in with a few big hits towards the end of the innings with the bat.

However, the emergence of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav changed things. Patel hasn’t played an ODI match since October 2017, and last featured in a T20I in February 2018.

Despite a poor 2018 IPL season, where he managed only three wickets in nine matches at a shocking average of 72.66, Delhi Capitals picked him at the 2019 auction for Rs 5 crore. Patel did better with 10 wickets from 14 games at average of 36.40, but it wasn’t a top-notch effort from someone purchased for that price.

#3 Colin Ingram

A former South African opening batsman, Colin Ingram couldn't make it big in international cricket owing to his lack of consistency. However, he reinvented himself as a T20 cricketer, and scored over 500 runs in the 2016 Natwest T20 Blast. He slammed two hundreds for Glamorgan in the same competition next year.

Ingram's T20 pedigree led him to an IPL 2019 contract with Delhi Capitals for Rs 6.4 crore. He was picked by Delhi back in 2011 too, but played only three games that season for 21 runs.

In the 2019 edition he again couldn’t make much of an impact, totaling 184 runs in 12 matches averaging under 20.