IPL AUCTION 2014 In the first half hour of the IPL auction itself, Bangalore Royal Challengers garnered the biggest headline of the day by offering a whopping Rs 14 crore, perhaps the highest ever offered for an Indian player in the cricket league for the unlikeliest of players: Yuvraj Singh.
Royal Challengers seemed to have bid successfully for the player at Rs 10 crore until it was discovered Kolkata were also in the race, and Vijay Mallaya had to shell out another Rs 4 crore to make sure the left hander stayed with his team. But in doing so, has Mallaya gone overboard in spending on a player who's record at best is sketchy over the last 12 months?
In IPL 2013, Singh played 13 matches for the now non-existent Pune Warriors and scored 238 runs at an average of 19 runs with a top score of 34. However, his strike rate was a healthy 125.26. He also managed to take 6 wickets in the 13 matches he played.
While his record in the last IPL can be overlooked given it was soon after his return to cricket after battling cancer, his record over the last 12 months has been just two international T20 matches. The last T20 match he played was against Australia in October 2013 in which he scored a career high of 77 runs.
However, that didn't translate into form in the one day international format where he failed to have any major impact. In the 11 matches he played over the last year, he scored 118 runs at an average of 16.85 an a high score of 55. He took just two wickets.
However, he is in the India's World T20 squad, so we have to assume that the one innings against Australia and his presence in the international squad were the only points that attracted Mallaya, or clearly the RCB knows something that we don't?
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