Ben Cutting (Sunrisers Hyderabad) – INR 50 lakh
IPL 2016 champion Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) bought Australian all-rounder Ben Cutting for INR 50 lakh from IPL Auction 2016. Though he played few matches for SRH in IPL 2016, he took an important part for his team to win IPL 2016.
Cutting played only 4 matches in IPL 2016 where he scored 65 runs and took 5 wickets. His most important contribution during the IPL 2016 final where he played a stormy innings of 39 runs in just 15 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) which helped his team to put such a big total in the front of strong RCB batting line-up. Also Cutting picked up 2 wickets with his bowling in the final match out of which one wicket was the most dangerous batsman in the match, RCB’s opener Chris Gayle’s wicket. Cutting was awarded man of the match for that outstanding performance in the final match.
Apart from the final, Cutting also performed well in the Qualifier 2 against Gujarat Lions where he bowled very well as he picked up 2 wickets for 20 runs in 3 overs.