As the world’s best T20 tournament comes to the play-off stage, the stars as well as the failures are being seen in the bright lights from which nobody can hide.
The foolishness of bidding extravagant sums for some players who have failed to deliver season after season does bring to the fore the question whether there is something more than what meets the eye. That is, how are franchises, especially their scouting teams, benefiting from such repeated errors of judgement?
Sure, any player can go through a lean patch, but when it happens season after season and a player keeps getting picked for astronomical sums, one is forced to wonder whether there is some quid pro quo somewhere.
The so-called mystery bowlers who look good in local leagues have been exposed time and again in the IPL. Franchises shell out huge amounts to buy them at the auction, but when it comes to bowling to international and national batsmen, these players have invariably cut a sorry figure. However, in the next season, they still get picked for crores, which is baffling to say the least.
Some batsmen too, who smash the bowling in local leagues, keep getting chance after chance every season in the IPL, but are yet to play a defining innings.
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