A number of actions on the field in cricket aren't easily measurable and would need a much-evolved effort to quantify: how would one quantify MS Dhoni's instincts as a captain or AB de Villiers' I-can-fly-too catching effort? To keep it simple Whole Cigarettes Newport, for the reader, and for ourselves, we look at only the easily quantifiable aspects of the game - batting and bowling - in this analysis. To this end, only the runs scored, strike rates, wickets taken, and the economy rates are taken into account to come up with a return on investment value for each player and thereby, for each team.
The Marquee-player tag worthies
These players generated values of over INR 10 Crores and should trigger off a prolonged bidding war in the next auction if this season is anything to go by. Nine of them make the cut with Narine topping the list. He chipped in with returns of 14.59 Crores for KKR through his performances. Rishabh Pant, Rashid Khan, Shane Watson, Andre Russell, Kane Williamson, KL Rahul, Andrew Tye and Hardik Pandya complete the list.