Top 5 IPL Auction blunders of all time

#4 Saurabh Tiwary to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1.6 million, 2011

Saurabh Tiwary

The Jharkhand middle-order batsman Saurabh Tiwary was rated highly ever since his heroics in India's Under 19 World Cup win in 2008-09 and following that, he impressed in the IPL with his powerful hitting for the Mumbai Indians. By the time 2011 came along, he had already made his debut for India in one-day international cricket and was hot property.

Tiwary had a base price of only $100,000 but soon the bidding went through the roof as the Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kochi Tuskers and later on Kings XI Punjab tried to snag him. Eventually, RCB got him for $1.6 million and it looked like a sensible buy at the time, since quality Indian players are valuable commodities in the IPL.

Tiwary's season, however, turned out to be a damp squib as he failed to get going and despite playing in all 15 games, ended up making only 188 runs. Additionally, his strike rate was only 99.46 and from then on, his stock plummetted. That season pretty much sealed his fate in the tournament and for RCB, it was yet another IPL auction clanger that they will never forget.