IPL: All-time flop XI in the tournament history

10. Tim Southee

With already being a very accomplished cricketer when it comes to playing for his national team, Tim Southee, whereas in the IPL, has been a very disheartening commodity. The cricketer had made his IPL debut by playing for CSK in the IPL 2011 and in his five games, had a reasonable outing. Southee, after missing few seasons made a re-entry in the IPL 2014 where he got bagged by the RR camp.

In his two seasons with RR, Southee hardly played 10 games and underperformed by scalping only six wickets. In the 2016 season, the speedster got picked by the MI team and collectively took 12 wickets from his 14 games in his combined two seasons. With his reasonable run, Southee was fetched by the Bangalore franchise where he represented them till 2019. In his twin seasons, the pacer collectively played 11 IPL games and appallingly took 6 wickets. Also in his short stint with RCB, Southee leaked runs at an economy of 11.

Overall, in his on and off IPL career, the NZ pacer played 40 IPL games and took 28 wickets. Despite being a very highly regarded swing bowler, Southee struggled to provide breakthroughs in the power plays. His bleeding economy is one of the main reasons why he hasn’t now bagged an IPL contract yet. All in all, with all regards to his inferior bowling in the IPL, Tim Southee is surely a much better pacer as compared to his atrocious bowling stats.