Ten days into IPL 5, and there are a number of players who haven't pulled above their weight. Here's a look at how some of the costliest players have performed in the tournament so far.
Yusuf Pathan – Five matches, 23 runs, avg 5.75, 0 wickets
After a solid IPL in 2010 in which he cored a memorable 37-ball hundred against Mumbai Indians - an innings Shane Warne called the best he had ever seen – Yusuf Pathan was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.1 million in January 2011. He had an average IPL 4, failing to score a half-century but taking 13 wickets to finish as KKR's second-highest wicket-taker. In season five, however, Yusuf has been very ordinary.
The 29-year-old, who recently recovered from a knee injury and is determined to work his way back into the Indian limited-overs team, has managed 23 runs in five innings – one of which was 15 in one outing – and hasn’t taken a wicket while conceding runs at 8.71 an over. In Kolkata's defeat to Delhi Daredevils he walked out at No. 5 with his team struggling at 30 for 3 in the third over and was out for a four-ball 0. Yusuf's dismissal was an odd one; trying to duck what he thought was a short delivery, Yusuf misjudged the bounce and gloved to the wicketkeeper. In the second match, another defeat to Rajasthan Royals, Yusuf gave away 28 runs in two overs before scoring 15 off 14 balls. In the next game he came out at No. 4 and made 1, caught at point of all places. Yusuf was not called on to bowl as KKR beat Royal Challengers Bangalore. In the second game against Rajasthan he was at the crease when Kolkata won a tense encounter, having steered a much-needed boundary in the penultimate over, but a four-ball 0 against Kings XI Punjab on Sunday was a real blob.
