3 Overseas stars who underperformed for RCB in IPL 2018

The Royal Challengers Bangalore finished at a disappointing sixth place last season and failed to make the playoffs. They were busy at the player auction and rebuilt their team and were hoping to address the issue with their bowling unit.

RCB signed Brendon McCullum, Quinton de Kock, Chris Woakes, Corey Anderson, Moeen Ali, Tim Southee and young spinner Washington Sundar. Neither of the big name signings performed to their potential and left Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers to do the bulk of the scoring.

Kohli who finished with 530 runs and De Villiers who finished with 480 runs were RCB's best performers with the bat by a huge margin and Umesh Yadav was impressive taking 20 wickets. The opening batsmen failed to perform and put a lot of pressure on Kohli to score. The death bowling was yet another concern that has continued to plague them across seasons. Neither of their bowlers managed to come up with convincing performances in the death overs.

Here are 3 successful international cricketers who failed to perform for RCB.

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#3 Chris Woakes

Chris Woakes, the English all-rounder, was part of the RCB side last year. Recruited for his big hitting abilities and quick bowling, Woakes made an impact in the first 2 games taking 5 wickets but later fizzled out and was very expensive.

His economy rate was 10.36 bowling throughout the innings and 11.28 in the death overs. He returned to England following the bad run of games nursing an injury and to prepare for their upcoming international matches.

#2 Corey Anderson

Corey Anderson showed potential but failed to deliver

Corey Anderson was part of the RCB setup last season and came in as a last-minute replacement for Nathan Coulter-Nile but later was signed by the team and a lot was expected from him. He was initially not part of the playing 11 but got his start in RCB's 6th game of the season. However, he failed to perform in that game and in the subsequent two matches as well. He finished the season off with just 17 runs and 3 wickets from 3 matches.

He has had a good record this year apart from IPL. He has scored 578 runs in 20 innings at a healthy average 32.54 and at a strike rate of 157.52 and has had a good season playing for New Zealand since then. He will look to play for another franchise if RCB release him and unleash his abilities.

#1 Moeen Ali

Moeen Ali

Moeen Ali was signed by the RCB last season along with other spin bowling options such as Washington Sundar and Murugan Ashwin. He was given an opportunity to play only towards the latter parts of the league when RCB were knocked out as the team management placed its faith on the local talents first.

Moeen had a very paltry season scoring 77 runs and picking up just 3 wickets in the 5 matches he played. He has had a better outing in T20s after the IPL scoring 367 runs in 14 innings at a strike rate of 170 and has a healthy average of 31.7. He has not fared worse in bowling either picking up 10 wickets in 12 matches but has been expensive and has an economy rate of 8.85.