Indian Premier League is the invitation house for cricketers from all over India and abroad. It gives a chance to every individual to prove his mettle in the highly competitive sphere of cricket.
Though the candidates from overseas are not available in heavy quantity, the local ones get the full advantage of the IPL. The most critical phase of the Indian Premier League is the auction because it allows each & every state of India to get its players in to go under the hammer for varied franchises.
In the past, Karnataka has sent a plethora of quality cricketers in the auction, which later flourish as the best names for the Indian Cricket team.
The biggest name among them is the current deputy skipper of the Indian white-ball cricket team, KL Rahul. He is also the new skipper of a brand new franchise Lucknow Supergiants. He has also led the team of Karnataka in the domestic sphere for a few years in the past.
Also, the two former Indian Greats, Anil Kumble & Rahul Dravid, were the residents of the Karnataka Cricket team in domestic cricket. You can find the legendary status of these stars from our stats books here.
There is a long list of dextrous bowlers & batters who have represented Karnataka as their state cricket team and come off in IPL, but here are the top 5 names from the state.
1. Rahul Dravid (RR)
Rahul Dravid has played in the IPL for 6 long years, in which he led the franchise of Rajasthan Royals for two IPL seasons. Rahul has played 89 matches in the Indian Premier League and made 2174 runs in it with a decent career average of 28.20. Rahul has also been the skipper of the Indian national team for a while; he has hit 11 fifties in his IPL career. Later, he retired from the Indian Premier League and all cricket formats in 2013.
2. KL Rahul (LSG)
The newly-appointed skipper of the brand new franchise Lucknow Supergiants has played for the Karnataka state cricket team in his domestic days. He has been superb in his initial domestic days, which bought him in the IPL in 2015. A month ago, he declared a new deputy skipper for Rohit Sharma in white-ball format. He has played 97 matches in IPL and scored 3381 runs into it with a blistering average of 47.19. Find out 5 cricketing shots that KL Rahul can play in their perfect state.
