IPL 2018: 5 Expensive players who justified their price and performed exceptionally this season

3. Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant was phenomenal in this year's IPL. He scored a massive 684 runs in 14 innings at a scintillating strike rate of 173.60.

In a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Pant scored a blitzkrieg 128* off just 63 balls. This innings helped Delhi put up a respectable total of 187 on the board. Pant also hit the most sixes and fours in this IPL season, with 37 sixes and 68 respectively.

He justified his price tag and his retention with his destructive performances in the 2018 season. Pant was different this year; he played with responsibility and composure in the middle order. He showed everyone that he knows how to build a proper innings and later accelerate at the death.