IPL 2018: Top 5 expensive bowling spells in League stages
The league stage of IPL 2018 has ended, with Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals having qualified for playoffs.
As usual in every edition of IPL, the bowlers often be on the receiving end of a batsmen assault and the end up leaking huge amount of runs, and this season of IPL 2018 was no different, as most of the bowlers ended up bowling expensive spells.
So in this article, we are going to look at the five expensive bowling spells bowled by the bowlers in IPL 2018 so far:
#5 Mustafizur Rahman (4-0-55-0)
The Fizz, as he is popularly known among cricket fans was bought by Mumbai Indians in IPL 2018 auction for Rs. 2.2 Crores, as he is currently one of the rare fast bowlers in world cricket who batsmen find difficult to pick by his bowling action.
But Mustafizur failed to leave up to the expectations of Mumbai Indians team management and had a poor IPL 2018, and picked up just 7 wickets from 7 matches at a higher economy rate of 8.36.
In one of those 7 matches he played for Mumbai Indians, Mustafizur ended up bowling an expensive spell of 4-0-55-0 in a match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers at Wankhede Stadium, as he was taken to cleaners by RCB batsmen despite Mumbai Indians winning the match by a comfortable margin of 46 runs.