Best from the rest: Combined XI from bottom six teams in IPL 2022

4. Liam Livingstone

Liam Livingstone arrived in the IPL with a reputation as a power hitter. But his brief performances over two years with Rajasthan Royals were disappointing. Livingstone’s reputation was only growing in stature, especially after his belligerent batting display against Pakistan. The Lancashire man smashed England’s fastest-ever international hundred, off just 42 balls, in the first T20 against Pakistan at Trent Bridge.

Punjab Kings prized the Englishman for INR 11.50 Cr in the 2022 auctions. The batting all-rounder finally arrived in the IPL and brought his fireworks along with him. Livingstone has scored 437 runs in IPL 2022 with four half-centuries, and a strike rate of over 180. He has shown no restraint with the bat in hand and has smacked sixes at will. Livingstone has also chipped in with the ball by picking up six wickets. 

Unfortunately, we won’t be seeing any more of him in IPL 2022 as Punjab Kings failed to make the playoffs. But it was fitting that Livingstone hit the 1000th six of IPL 2022, the highest number of sixes in an IPL season to till date. He bows out of the tournament with 34 sixes to his name, second only to his compatriot Jos Buttler’s 37. One of those 34 sixes was a 117-meter monstrous hit against GT, the longest of the season.