6 players who have played for most franchises in the IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has successfully entered into its eighth season and has offered the viewers plenty of entertainment to cherish. IPL follows the method of auctions to trade the available players and the management welcomes bidding from all the franchises present.It is this auction that decides a player’s fate as to which franchise he would play for that season or how long he’s bound to play for them. Sometimes players are also swapped between franchises based on their specific needs.Now, what is unique about our feature is we have specially tagged along those players who have the peculiarity of playing for four or more IPL franchises in the eight editions of the tournament so far.Other players who have played for four franchises are: Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, RP Singh, Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Manvinder Bisla, Praveen Kumar, Manish Pandey, Murali Karthik, Ashok Dinda, Moises Henriques, Ross Taylor and Shikhar Dhawan.

#6 Steve Smith - 4

Touted as Australia’s next-big-thing, 25-year-old Steven Smith rather had a quite start to his IPL career way back in 2010 for Royal Challengers Bangalore but got to play his first match of the T20 event only in 2012 when he played for Pune Warriors India (PWI).

Enjoying a good time with PWI scoring at an average of 40, the temperamental batsman was bought by Rajasthan Royals in the 2014 auction. He has since then continued play for this Jaipur based franchise.

Team	Year(s)
RCB	2010
KTK	2011
PWI	2012-13
RR	2014- Present