New Delhi. When the IPL 2024 auction took place, bids worth crores were received. One player got a contract of more than 99 times and his partner more than 90… Six players got contracts worth more than Rs 10 crore. Many of these cricketers have now become a burden on their teams. From Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings to Gujarat Titans, it has become expensive to make big bids on some players. Especially Virat Kohli’s RCB. The performance of the three cricketers of this team, who are getting Rs 11 crore to Rs 17.50 crore for playing, is not able to rise above zero.
The status of the most expensive player in IPL 2024 was given to Mitchell Starc, on whom Kolkata Knight Riders made a bid of Rs 24.75 crore. The second expensive player was Pat Cummins. However, Cummins (5 matches, 6 wickets), sold for Rs 20.50 crore, is performing well for Sunrisers Hyderabad. But his Australian teammate Cameron Green is proving to be very expensive for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Price 17.50 crores, wickets 0, runs 68 in 5 matches
Royal Challengers Bangalore benched all-rounder Cameron Green against Mumbai Indians. Many veterans criticized it. Tom Moody said that RCB is confused about Green. But if we talk about facts, RCB fielded Cameron Green in 5 consecutive matches before dropping him. In these five matches, Green could not take a single wicket and scored a total of 68 runs. From this it can be guessed why RCB had to leave Green out of the playing eleven.
Price 11 crores, account not opened in 3 out of 6 matches
Not only Cameron Green, Alzarri Joseph and Glenn Maxwell have disappointed RCB a lot. Alzarri played 3 matches in IPL 2024 and could take only one wicket. Runs were also wasted. The team management was forced to replace him with Reece Topley. RCB had bid Rs 11.50 crore on Alzarri Joseph in the IPL auction in December 2023. Alzarri is the most expensive cricketer in RCB after Cameron Green (17.50 crore) and Virat Kohli (15 crore). Glenn Maxwell, worth Rs 11 crore, has been able to score only 32 runs in 6 matches in the tournament. There is no doubt that despite Virat Kohli having an orange cap on his head, if RCB is continuously losing, then stars like Green, Joseph, Maxwell are to blame, who are proving to be white elephants for their team.
The performance of the most expensive player was hidden in the team’s victory.
Mitchell Starc, the most expensive player in IPL history, has also not lived up to expectations. Australian pacer Starc has played 4 matches in the current tournament, but has only 2 wickets in his account. However, due to the excellent performance of other KKR players, Starc’s poor performance has been hidden and he has also got a chance to make a comeback.
Chennai’s Daryl’s condition is also unstable
Daryl Mitchell is also one of those cricketers who are not able to prove their big bid right. Chennai Super Kings had bid Rs 14 crore for him. New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell has scored 118 runs in 5 matches at an average of 29.50 and rate of 125.53 in the tournament. His best score is 34 runs.
Johnson worth Rs 10 crore, took 3 wickets in 4 matches
The hope with which Gujarat Titans bought Spencer Johnson for Rs 10 crore also does not seem to be fulfilled. Australia’s Spencer has played 4 matches so far and has been able to take only 3 wickets in them. Players who got big prices in IPL 2024 also include Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel (11.75 crore), Sameer Rizvi (8.40 crore), Riley Rossow (8.00 crore). Harshal has taken 6 wickets in 5 matches so far. Rizvi has so far got a chance in 2 innings of 4 matches, in which once he scored 14 runs and in the second he could not open the account. Punjab Kings have not yet given a chance to Riley Rosso in the playing eleven.
players worth Rs 20 lakh are scoring runs
If many expensive players are biting the dust in IPL 2024, then there are many players who got the base price of Rs 20 lakh, but they are hitting sixes on the field. These include B Sai Sudarshan of Gujarat Titans, Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma of Punjab Kings. Sai Sudarshan has scored 226 runs in 6 matches and is in the race for Orange Cap. Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma were also bought by Punjab Kings for the base price of Rs 20 lakh. Shashank has scored 137 runs in 5 matches at a strike rate of 195.71. Ashutosh has scored 64 runs in 2 matches at a strike rate of 200. The special thing is that Shashank and Ashutosh bat at number six, seven or eight. In such a situation, his performance is winning everyone’s hearts.
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Tags: Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, IPL 2024, Mitchell Starc, rcb
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 12, 2024, 18:09 IST