In this article, we will hear about the player who lost Rs 8 crore in IPL in just one stroke and was seen scoring a brilliant 50 partnering MS Dhoni.
The player is none other than Krishnappa Gowtham. He is probably the only player ever to have seen such a steep drop in numbers in just a year’s time. Last year, the same player was bought by the team Chennai Super Kings for 9.25 crores and he became the most expensive uncapped player. But this year the star of the player is not looking good and because of this player has been bought for only 90 lakhs and that too by the newly formed Lucknow Super Giants team.
Recently, the player was seen playing for Railways from Karnataka displaying some good power plays hitting 4 sixes and 4 boundaries in the match. MS Dhoni was his partner in the match who also scored 50 runs. The achievement was a big one for the player as the player came out to bat at No 8 and played his game effectively despite making excuses.
Apart from MS Dhoni and Gowtham, there were two other players who played well-named Manish Pandey and K Siddharth who scored 156 and 146 runs respectively. When Gowtham was bought by CSK for 9.25 crores, making him the most expensive uncapped player ever, he never knew that a year later the player’s worth would depreciate to a level that is not digestible. However, this year the name of the most expensive uncapped player was snatched by Avesh Khan. The uncapped player was bought by the newly formed team i.e., Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 10 crore.
Looking at the history of the players, Gautam has so far scored 1050 runs with 168 wickets and played 44 first-class matches.
Krishna Gautam is also known as Bhajji because Harbhajan Singh is his idol. Krishnappa Gowtham is a rising off-spinner and explosive lower-order batsman who hails from Karnataka. At the age of 24, he made his first-class debut for Karnataka against Uttar Pradesh, where he took 2 wickets in the match. His ability to bowl restrictive off-spin surprisingly caught the attention of the Mumbai Indians team in 2017 and was bought by the MI team at a very high price being the uncapped player.
In 2018, Gautam caught the attention of another IPL team and that was Rajasthan Royals. Gautam has a very impressive ability to change the game which is even more dangerous in international cricket. Interestingly, due to his similar bowling style as Harbhajan Singh, he was called to bowl in the nets for the Australian team in Bangalore in 2008.
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