12 unexpected players who set the IPL auction on fire

#3 Jaydev Unadkat (IPL 2018 auction)

Jaydev Unadkat

This list would be incomplete without a mention of Jaydev Unadkat. The left-arm-medium-pacer had made his debut for India 7 years before he came up in the auction on 28th January, 2018. He had played one test, 7 ODIs and 4 T20Is in all these years failing to find great success at the international level.

Although, in the 2017 edition of the IPL, he finished second on the wicket takers’ list with 24 scalps in 12 games that also included a hat-trick, yet nobody could have predicted ₹11.5 crore for Unadkat. Yet, that was the amount Rajasthan Royals paid for the left-arm medium pacer.

However, he failed to live up to his price-tag, picking only 11 wickets in 15 matches in the 2018 edition of the league. As a result, Unadkat had to accept a pay-cut at the 2019 auction, selling to the Rajasthan Royals again for ₹8.4 crore only.