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#1 Ambati Rayudu
In IPL, one team's loss is another team's gain and Ambati Rayudu is a perfect example of it. After playing for Mumbai Indians for 8 years as an occasional wicket-keeper and middle-order batsman, Chennai Super Kings bought him for 2.2 crores in the IPL auction in 2018. Though Rayudu plays well in the middle, CSK skipper MS Dhoni wanted him to open the innings in the absence of Faf du Plessis. Rayudu opened the innings for CSK in 9 out of 12 matches he played and scored some brilliant knocks for the team.
In the IPL 2018, Rayudu scored 535 runs in 12 innings at an average of 48.63 and at a strike rate of 152.85. This is the best IPL season for Rayudu in terms of runs scored and this is the first time in which he scored more than 400 runs in an IPL edition.
On May 13, 2018, Rayudu also registered his first hundred in the IPL against Sunrisers Hyderabad and helped to chase the target of 180 successfully. After being promoted as an opener, Rayudu's game reached a new level and he earned himself a new nickname Ambati 'Baahubali' Rayudu.
