IPL: All-time flop XI in the tournament history

4. Yuvraj Singh

It is absolutely tormenting to have Yuvraj Singh as a part of this list especially considering what the cricketer had achieved in the white-ball cricket for his national team. Yuvraj, in his eventful IPL career, has played for six different IPL teams and has won the IPL glory twice. Also, in terms of his 11-year-old IPL career, Yuvraj Singh not even once at least scored a total of 400 runs in an IPL season. The batting all-rounder’s best IPL season had exhibited when he was representing RCB and had scored a total of 376 runs from his 14 games.

By starting his career with KXIP, Yuvraj in the first two seasons was only averaging around 25. But by carrying his 2011 World Cup form for his new franchise (Pune Warriors), the left-hander notched a total of 343 runs at an average of 34.30. Now regardless of being reasonable during his initial IPL years at least by his standards, the cricketer then actually became an eminent entity in the IPL. While playing for RCB and DD, Yuvraj twice became the most expensive player during the 2014 & 2015 auctions. With the red army, Yuvi once again had an acceptable IPL season where fetched runs at an average of 34.18. But with subsequently representing the Delhi franchise, it was disappointing to watch him getting swayed.  However, by representing SRH in 2016, there came a little resurgence when he also won his first IPL title.

But by yet again moving to its home franchise (KXIP) in 2018, the legendary cricketer perhaps had its worst-ever IPL season as in his 8 games, Yuvi scored runs under a menial average of around 11. In the IPL 2019, the cricketer was then happily bagged by the MI camp where he also won its second IPL title. Overall in his prolonged IPL career, this stallion played a total of 132 matches and scored 2750 runs at an average of 24.77. Nevertheless, with being India’s biggest match-winner, hardly Yuvraj was seen replicating his international success.