IPL: Top 5 forgotten heroes

#1 RP Singh

Hailing from a small city in Uttar Pradesh, Rudra Pratap Singh raised eyebrows on his Test debut against Pakistan in 2006 where he emerged as the Man of the Match. Essentially a left-arm medium pacer with a tidy run-up and follow-through, Singh’s art lay in his ability to trouble the batsmen by getting the cherry to move both ways.

He was one of the pillars of the Deccan Chargers’ IPL triumph in 2009, winning the Purple Cap with 23 wickets in 16 matches at an average of 18.13 and economy of just below 7.00. He continued to perform consistently and grabbed another 4-wicket-haul in 2011 in a losing cause against Kings XI Punjab, playing for Kochi Tuskers Kerala to add to his 4/22 in 2009 for the now-defunct Hyderabad outfit.

With 87 wickets in 78 IPL games, RP Singh sits comfortably at 8 in the list of most wickets taken in the IPL. He was swooped up by the Mumbai Indians at the IPL Player Auctions in 2012 only to be released ahead of the 2013 season when Royal Challengers Bangalore signed him up for US$ 400,000. He was released in 2014 and went unsold in 2015 as well.