IPL History: Top 10 'Made-in-IPL' superstars

This year, the Indian Premier League turns 12. In these 12 years, the IPL has gathered a fan base that no other sports league has ever had in the country, and across the world too. The IPL has also succeeded in giving many cricket players success and recognition.

This league also plays a huge role in making cricket such a popular sport in the country, with the number of followers increasing exponentially every year.

The IPL has also helped many lesser-known players get some recognition by playing in this league. While some talent is handpicked by the teams in the local leagues, others arrive in the league based on merit and go on to play at the highest level of cricket.

Here is a look at the top 10 players who have made it big after making an impact in the Indian Premier League.

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#10. Ambati Rayudu

Rayudu will thank the IPL for the upward graph in his career

Ambati Rayudu has been playing the IPL since 2010. For the eight seasons since then, Rayudu had been a part of the Mumbai Indians setup. In these eight seasons, he played 114 matches and scored 2,418 runs.

It was because of his performance in the IPL that he became a known name and earned his call-up for the Indian team in 2013.

Though he has been in and out of the Indian team, Rayudu had already become a well-known player, thanks to the huge fan following of the Mumbai Indians team.

After being bought by CSK last year, Rayudu has impressed by scoring 602 runs in 16 innings, the highest in a single season for the player.

This performance has helped his case for the Indian national room, and at 33 years, Rayudu is now the number four batsman, and is almost certain to make it to the World Cup, after the IPL.

#9. Siddarth Kaul

Siddarth Kaul got his maiden India call-up, thanks to his IPL performance

Siddarth Kaul is a right-arm pacer who hasn't had much IPL game time. However, in the 38 matches he has played, he has evidently done enough. In his four years in the IPL, his performance has propelled him into the Indian team.

In the last couple of years, he has been supporting Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the Sunrisers Hyderabad team and has improved his bowling heavily. He is now effective with both the new and old ball, and that is what the Indian selectors must have seen when they called him up.

He is also in the running to be in the flight that carries the Indian team to England, for the big ticket event, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

This is arguably one of the quickest progress made by any player in years. His performances in the SRH team is definitely what has made him popular.

#8. Krunal Pandya

Krunal Pandya owes his success to Mumbai Indians and the IPL

Krunal Pandya is a 27-year-old spin-bowling all-rounder from Baroda. He is a prime example of raw talent that was spotted by a franchise and brought into the limelight. Mumbai Indians found him in Baroda after the 2015 season and he played for the team in the 2016 season.

In the last three years, Pandya has shown that he can be a match winner. His temperament and the reading of the game is what makes him so special for the Mumbai team.

During the 2017 IPL final, Pandya showed precisely why Mumbai had brought him in. On that day, his all-round performance brought him into contention for the Indian team. And after another good season last year, Krunal has now played 11 T20 internationals for the Indian cricket team.

He has been coming good for the Indian team as well. Though he has areas to improve on, he definitely would be satisfied with what he has achieved in this little time.

#7. Mohit Sharma

Mohit Sharma will be thanking IPL for whatever he has achieved till date.

Mohit Sharma is another pacer who has made a name for himself through the IPL. Sharma was a part of the World Cup squad in 2015, after two excellent IPL seasons in 2013 and 2014.

Mohit Sharma made his debut in International cricket right after his first IPL in 2013. However, he has also been in and out of the Indian team. Currently, he is back to the team that gave him his IPL cap, the Chennai Super Kings.

He has been out of the Indian team since 2015 and will be hoping that under Dhoni's captaincy, his performance will bloom again and, he will make it back to the blue jersey.

Mohit Sharma has to give the IPL and the Chennai Super Kings credit for all he has achieved in his cricketing career since 2013.

#6. Yuzvendra Chahal

Yuzvendra Chahal has been with RCB for the last 5 seasons.

Yuzvendra Chahal is another bowler who has come from the IPL to become a regular in the Indian team. He made his IPL debut in the 2013 season, but he was a part of the Mumbai Indians team since the third season in 2011.

In 2013 too, he only played one match in the IPL. In 2014 he changed jersey colours and moved to the Royal Challengers Bangalore, for who he has been consistently playing.

Currently, Chahal has taken 82 wickets in 70 matches. He made his ODI debut in 2016, but it is only after the Champions Trophy of 2017, that he has become a regular in the Indian squad.

2015 was the standout year for Chahal in the IPL, where he got 23 wickets in 15 matches. It is only because of his IPL record that he is playing in the blue jersey today and already has 71 wickets in the 40 ODI matches.

And his ODI rankings are also very good. He is number 5 in the ODI bowlers rankings and number 19 in the T20 bowler's rankings.

#5. Mohammed Siraj

Mohammed Siraj owes his career mostly to the IPL

Mohammed Siraj, is another Indian pacer, who owes his success to this tournament. It was at the 2017 IPL, that Siraj came into the limelight. He impressed with his pace and variations and did well for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Because of that performance, Siraj was included in the Indian team for the T20 internationals. However, he has not performed up to the mark with the chances he has got in the Indian jersey.

However, due to the IPL success he had in his first season, and his shock entry into the Indian team, Siraj has become a household name.

However, he keeps performing well enough for the India A team and in the domestic circuit to keep getting call ups for the Indian T20 team. If he is able to perform well for the Royal Challengers Bangalore this year, his popularity will only go upwards.

#4. Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey got into the Indian team after playing the IPL

Manish Pandey is an Indian batsman who came into the limelight when he hit the first ton by an Indian in the IPL in 2009. Since then, he has been known as a player with promise and he has delivered on that promise.

It was with Kolkata Knight Riders that Pandey had some fruitful years in the IPL. After that, he was promoted to the Indian team, where In 2016, he made his ODI debut and since then, he was a regular in the team, till the Australia tour this year.

He was not performing up to the mark in the last few series and he also had a below average IPL last year.

However, he is a known name now and with one good IPL showing and Manish Pandey will be on his way into the Indian team once again.

#3. Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar Yadav had an outstanding season of IPL last year

Suryakumar Yadav started his IPL career in the 2012 season with the Kolkata Knight Riders. But it was only in the 2014 season, when he got ample opportunity to display his skills, and he did grab that with both hands, scoring at an average of over 32 and a healthy strike rate of 140.

Since then, he was always a part of the KKR squad, where he was always used as a middle order floater.

However, last year, when he was bought by the Mumbai Indians and was promoted up top as an opener, and he impressed. In his best season so far, he justified that change by scoring 512 runs at an average of over 36.

One more good IPL this year and he might be on its way to the Indian team set up.

#2. Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya's career started from this tournament

Hardik Pandya is a household name now. He made his IPL debut in 2015 and just nine matches later, he was in the T20 setup of the Indian team. And in no time, he became a regular in both the ODI and the T20 squads of India.

He had a very mediocre outing in the 2016 season, but by then, the Indian team already had faith in this youngster. In 2017, he had a season much better than the previous one.

The stand-out player for Mumbai Indians in 2018, Hardik scored 260 runs in 13 matches and took 18 wickets. He was the highest wicket-taker for the MI team last year.

It has to be the IPL that elevated the all-rounder's career and took it to an altogether different level.

Hardik Pandya has successfully filled in the slot of a pace bowling all-rounder that the Indian team had been trying to fill in for years.

#1. Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah has had a great career that started from the IPL

Jasprit Bumrah has been the stand-out bowler for both the Mumbai Indians and the Indian cricket team, for the last three years. From such a young guy, with a weird bowling action, to being the number one bowler in the ICC ODI rankings, Bumrah has surely come a long way.

Bumrah made his IPL debut in 2013 and did not get many opportunities in the first three years of his IPL career. From 2013 to 2015, he played just 17 matches in which he had a total of just 11 wickets. But it was 2016 that turned things around for Bumrah.

In 2016, Bumrah made his debut for the Indian team against Australia, and the real journey started. Since then, he has been a regular in the Indian team, as well as in his IPL team.

The go-to man for Kohli in India and Rohit in MI alike, the boy with a weird bowling action has surely come good.

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