3 Indian Players whose ODI career might have ended after a disastrous 2018 IPL

Indian Premier League's 11th season has ended and fans enjoyed the cricket that this competition had to offer. This year's competition was intense as a number of teams played brilliantly this season.

IPL has always been used by players as a stepping stone to international cricket and this year a number of players had stepped up to stake their claim. This season was particularly an extremely successful one for the young Indian batsmen.

The likes of Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw, and Sanju Samson played in a brilliant manner this year and it has put pressure on the senior pros in the Indian setup.

A number of senior players have been going through a rough phase in the recent years and with the onset of this new lot of players, a number of International careers may be heading to an end.

#3 Ravindra Jadeja

Ravindra Jadeja was one of the two premier spin bowlers of the 2015 World Cup team and was considered to be an essential part of the Indian team which would try to win the 2019 World Cup.

Jadeja's performance though has been poor for the past two years as he has been unable to pick wickets with the ball and he has been struggling with the bat as well. He last played for India in ODIs in 2017 and he hasn't made things any easier for him with his performance in this IPL.

In the last one and a half years, a number of new spinners have come into the Indian side and have made those spots their own. Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav have more or less confirmed their place in the 2019 World Cup squad.

Young spinners like Washington Sundar and Mayank Markande made their presence felt in the IPL and the experienced R Ashwin and Axar Patel also staged a mini-comeback. In such a situation, Jadeja's ODI career can be considered as good as over especially considering his 2018 IPL performance.

#2 Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir is one of the best openers that India has ever had in all formats of the game. He was the hero of the team on both the occasions when India won a World Cup in 2007 as well as in 2011.

Gambhir was the highest scorer in the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup and he also scored 97 runs in the final of the 2011 World Cup against Sri Lanka. He was dropped from the Indian team in 2012 and he has been unable to make it to the Indian ODI side since then.

Gambhir had a poor IPL this year as he was unable to score runs at a decent rate. He even stepped down from captaincy and was not even a part of the Delhi playing XI in the second half of the tournament.

With Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Prithvi Shaw performing pretty well in this year's IPL and making a case for their selection in the Indian team, we might have already seen the last of Gambhir in the blue jersey.

Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj has been dropped from the Punjab team on multiple occasions this year

Yuvraj Singh is a name which is synonymous with Indian ODI cricket. He is one of the most iconic players to have played for India in the ODI format. He is the hero of the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 World Cup.

He was the Man of the Series in the 2011 World Cup but wasn't even a part of the 2015 World Cup squad. He again made a comeback into the Indian side in 2017 and performed decently before he was dropped again.

Yuvraj has been unable to make a comeback into the Indian team since then. This year's IPL was to be an important one for him if he was to make a case for his selection in the Indian side for the 2019 World Cup but it has turned out to be a disastrous one for him

His poor performance led to him being dropped from the Punjab side and it is unlikely that he will ever play for India again.