IPL: Most underutilised XI in the history of the tournament
These players have gone on to shine for other teams.
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3. Suryakumar Yadav (KKR)
It was in IPL 2014 when KKR had bagged Suryakumar Yadav for INR 70 lacs and was specifically chosen to perform lower-order duties. Instantly in his debut season for KKR, Suryakumar played 16 matches and scored 164 runs at an average of 32.80, along with a strike rate of 140.
Again in the subsequent two seasons, he continued serving KKR mainly as a lower-order batter or as a floater, but neither any towering score nor a lofty strike rate was attained by him. Overall in his entire stint with KKR, Suryakumar could only fetch a single fifty from his total of 54 matches which eventually made him again go back to his former franchise MI.
Now although Suryakumar Yadav does has very attacking gameplay, the lower-order batting never came naturally to him. Also, his constant shuffling in the batting order never brought any stability in his batting and with the MI team now continuing to foster him with his favourite number, surely the KKR team could have used his special talent in a much better way.
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