6 players who have been misused by their IPL franchises

Too many cooks spoil the broth. That is an adage absolutely true for IPL where most teams are loaded with a bigger battalion of coaching staff than players. The result is that there is no dearth of ideas, some really strange ones, some baffling ones too. Yes, sometimes players going up and down, some new players picked, some legendary ones dropped makes for exciting viewing. Then, there are times when you know that genuinely good players are languishing nowhere.Some teams rotate their teams so often and so much, it is hard for fans and followers to even remember what team had played a few games ago. Besides, it could severely dent the players' confidence too, turning match-winners to duds. The transformation of Glenn Maxwell hardly getting a chance at Mumbai Indians to being a trailblazer at Kings XI Punjab is a great example of how reputations and careers are built and destroyed thanks to coaching decisions.Let's take a look at 6 players who are currently underutilized by their teams:

#1 David Miller - Kings XI Punjab

He announced his arrival orchestrating a back-from-the-dead victory for Kings XI Punjab. Miller, in that game, had scored a 38 ball century against Royal Challengers Bangalore. The South Africa international is a regular fixture of the supremely talented national side and played a couple of fascinating innings even in the recently concluded World Cup. His 18-ball knock in the semi-finals, although in a losing cause, was an example of his power-hitting. His talent also came to the fore in a ton against Zimbabwe in the tournament opener.

However, at Kings XI Punjab, he is being moved around quite a bit. A man who must be an immovable object at No. 5 strangely walked in after Axar Patel against Rajasthan Royals. In their latest loss to Kolkata Knight Riders, Miller was dropped in favour of Thisara Perera, who although a power-hitter and a reasonable all-rounder, doesn’t have the batting class of Miller. This is definitely not the way you tinker with the contributions of a genuine match-winner.