5 Former cricketers who would have been excellent IPL Stars

#1 Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev would have been the most in-demand player of the auctions

Finally, the recipe to success in the shortest version of this sport is to be multi-talented and equally good in all aspects of the game.

There is a reason why Andre Russell is currently considered to be the most valuable player in the T20 format. Similarly, Kapil Dev could have been an almost identical player, who would have delivered high impact performances with his multiple skills.

Dev was an asset to have whilst bowling both early on and late in the innings. He was a great swing bowler and had a tendency to scalp some crucial wickets upfront. His in-swingers were a major threat to the right-handed batsmen, especially when they weren’t set in the initial part of their innings.

Thereby, he was excellently proficient at bowling the wicket-taking deliveries in the death overs as well. Dev could execute the Yorkers to perfection, and that would have made him one of the most desired bowlers in this T20 age.

Additionally, he was a brilliant batsman, a clean striker and brilliant at running between the wickets too. The Haryana man could clear the ropes at will, possessing a strike rate of 95.1 in ODIs, which was simply absurd at the time in which he played the game.

Also, it was his fielding that set him apart from his peers too. The World Cup-winning captain was very fit, quick and agile on the field and being extremely strong in all three facets of the game would have given him a definite edge over any other player in the T20 circuit.

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