IPL 2018: Four possible opening combinations for KXIP

#3 Chris Gayle & Mayank Agarwal

Gayle has batted with Agarwal before for RCB

Now, this is one opening pair that has batted together in the past. Both Gayle and Mayank Agarwal have opened together for the RCB and the pair would know a thing or two about each other having spent so much time together in their previous franchise.

The 'Universe Boss' Chris Gayle has been a perennial legend of the T20 format of the game, having terrorized bowlers all over the world with his panache for brutal power-hitting. The only batsman to accumulate in excess of 10,000 runs in the shortest format of the game, Gayle was almost unsold in this year's auction when KXIP eventually racked up the Jamaican for a base price of 2 crores in the 11th hour. On his day, Gayle can pulverize reputations into submission, as he has so often done in the past ten years of the IPL.

Agarwal will resume his partnership with Gayle at KXIP

Partnering Gayle will be the wonder boy of the 2017/18 Indian domestic season, Mayank Aggarwal. With 1160 runs in Ranji Trophy, 723 runs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and over 250 runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament at a strike rate of 144.94, it's fair to say that Agarwal is in the form of his life and the left-right combination that he'll form with his former RCB partner can pave way for shenanigans of their middle-order to take over.