One player each team could regret buying at IPL Auction 2019
IPL auctions have always been a tricky affair for the franchises. The calculation regarding the amount of money to be spent on a particular player and whether that player actually fits into the scheme of things for the franchise are things that every team at the auction needs to be clear about.
While sometimes teams buy players at a high price at the auction but they end up playing very less number of games due to their team combinations, at other times players fail to deliver at crucial moments leaving their teams wondering if those players were really worth the money put on them?
There were some debatable decisions taken by the teams at the auction this year too. And only time will tell how expensive these decisions might prove for them.
Here is a list containing one player each team could regret buying at the auction.
#8 Akshdeep Nath - Royal Challengers Bangalore
After going unsold in the first round, little did Akshdeep Nath expect to fetch the huge sum of 3.6 crore. After a bidding tussle between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Uttar Pradesh wicket-keeper batsman was bought by RCB.
The primary reason for RCB bidding aggressively was the dearth of wicket-keepers in their squad.
But RCB might have spent too much in the process.
Even though Akshdeep has been a consistent performer in domestic cricket, his T20 numbers are not spectacular. A mediocre average of 23.45 and a strike-rate of 122.66 in T20s is decent but certainly not outrageous enough to get the amount that he got. The 25-year-old has played IPL before for Gujarat Lions and Kings XI Punjab but failed to impress after scoring just 29 runs in 6 games.
Did RCB overspend on Akshdeep Nath? Only time will tell.
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