IPL auction 2020: One bowler that each team would look to sign

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Delhi Capitals - Jaydev Unadkat

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Unadkat can do well for the Capitals. (Image Courtesy: IPLT20.com)
Unadkat can do well for the Capitals. (Image Courtesy: IPLT20.com)

The Delhi Capitals released a whole lot of players ahead of the auction and have many spots to fill. They were the most active team during the trade window and brought in Ajinkya Rahane and Ravichandran Ashwin while trading out Trent Boult and Rahul Tewatia to MI and RR respectively.

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After trading Boult and releasing Chris Morris, their pace battery looks understaffed, and they don't have a single left-arm seamer in their squad. Adding an overseas pacer might hamper their squad balance, so they could look to get an Indian pacer like Jaydev Unadkat to address their issues.

Unadkat was released by RR after a poor season where he picked up just 10 wickets from 11 matches at a horrendous economy rate. This came after he was bought for a whopping ₹8.4 crore at the auction.

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While RR were justified in releasing Unadkat, Delhi can profit from this move. The Saurashtra pacer has been brilliant outside of the IPL and was the side's highest wicket-taker in both the Vijay Hazare and the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy this year. While he struggled on the slow wicket in Jaipur, he might do better on the moderately paced wicket in Delhi.

Unadkat can share the death bowling duties with Kagiso Rabada, and is a strike bowler. With all his stats pointing the right way, Delhi should sign Unadkat and bolster their pace battery.

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