#8 Rashid Khan
Rashid Khan was in the buzz before the auction as he was up for grabs. Sunrisers Hyderabad used the RTM card to bring back the leg-spinner for a whopping INR 9 crores. The Afghan player proved worthy of every penny that was spent on him by the franchise. Leg-spinners are the talk of the town these days and it’s headed by Rashid.
He took 21 wickets in IPL 2018 from 17 matches at an economy rate of just 6.74. The right-hander finished as the second highest wicket-taker of the season. There weren’t too many batsmen who were able to read his variations and he got the better of even the masters of spin bowling like MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.