IPL 2018: 5 players who should have played for a different franchise
IPL auctions are a tricky thing to get right and many teams must be realizing it again at this stage of the tournament. Analysts have found strengths and weaknesses of all the teams by now and there's little one can do now about changing those. The middle order woes of KXIP, the impregnable bowling of SRH, the death over stigmas of RCB etc. are some of the attributes that won't go away overnight. However, the situation would have been different if the squads were balanced better and certain players who are not at all utilized in their current teams, were playing for teams that so badly need them right now.
#1 Chris Jordan- RCB
RCB, like every year, has struggled with their pace bowling attack, especially at the death. Their death bowling has been reliant upon Mohammad Siraj and Tim Southee/Chris Woakes and none of them are specialists for the job. While Umesh Yadav and Tim Southee have usually bowled well up front, they have leaked quite a lot of runs in the latter half of the match.
On the other end hand, SRH has an army of extremely skillful bowlers and one of them is Chris Jordan, who has played just one match in this season so far. Jordan is a world-class T20 death overs specialist who can also hit the ball a long way. Despite bowling in slog overs, he has an economy under 8.5 in the 100+ T20s he has played. Jordan also has scored nearly 800 runs at a strike rate of 122 in those matches. He could have played for RCB in place of Woakes/Anderson/de Grandhomme. RCB would have certainly benefited a lot from his experience and expertise, which is currently not at all utilized at SRH.