5 Major steal deals of all-time in IPL history
These players were a sort of unknown entity at the start and turned out to be the steal deals for their team.
1. David Miller
Another buy that should be termed as an absolute jackpot is that of David Miller. Before the 2020 edition of the IPL, Rajasthan Royals bought the left-hander for a sum of just Rs 75 Lakh. Now, consider this. In the 2014 edition of the IPL, Miller was paid an amount of 12.5 Crore by the Kings XI Punjab side. He continued to receive that amount from the Punjab franchise for the next 3 years.
In the 2018 edition, he was retained by the Punjab side for Rs 3 Crore. And, before being traded to the Rajasthan side, Miller’s last drawn IPL salary was the same as well. And, it is in this context that Rajasthan managed to pouch him for just Rs 75 Lakh. And what’s worse was the fact that he managed to play just a single game in the whole of IPL 2020 for the Rajasthan side.
Miller also stands third in the list of batsmen with the fastest centuries in IPL history. He plundered a century off just 38 balls against the Bangalore outfit in the year 2013. The swashbuckling left-hander is also the fourth-highest run scorer for the Proteas in the T20 format and has aggregated 1368 runs in the international arena. Also, he has scored his T20I runs at a strike rate of close to 140 (139.30). What a buy for the Royals, isn’t it?
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