5 most expensive IPL flops

It is said that money alone can’t buy happiness. Rightly so, money can’t guarantee success either. Just ask the cash-rich Indian Premier League franchisees over the years who have gone on to splurge ridiculous amounts of money to what they thought were gold-mines.The IPL auctions have always sprung up surprises. Sometimes an unknown player goes for a humongous amount and sometimes an international player with proven track record goes unsold.As usual in every IPL auction, big money is shelled out by franchisees to get their players of choosing. Some perform and do justice to the amount they were bought for and some turn out to be a total dud.Here we look at the players from all the seasons of IPL who raked in a lot of moolah but couldn’t do justice to their price tag:

#1 Andrew Flintoff (Chennai Super Kings)

Andrew Flintoff was one of the top rated allrounders at that time in both ODIs and Tests.

He was bought by the Chennai Super Kings in the 2009 IPL auctions. He had a lot to prove and justify the staggering amount of $1.55 million equalling Kevin Pietersen‘s price tag. Known for his destructive batting and reverse swing, his IPL career never took off. He returned home for an ankle surgery after featuring in just three matches for Chennai, raising doubts over whether he should have committed to the IPL at all. He performed poorly scoring just 62 runs and took 2 wickets in his 3 match stint during the second edition in South Africa.

The all-rounder unable to regain his fitness later announced his retirement from all forms of the game in 2009 and did not return to play in the IPL in 2010.