IPL 2016: Under-24 XI of the tournament

10. Shivil Kaushik – Gujarat Lions

Shivil Kaushik bowled well in his debut IPL season

The 20-year-old ‘Indian Paul Adams’ played his first game in the cash-rich league against the Rising Pune Supergiants. The young Chinaman bowler, who was picked up by the Gujarat Lions for INR 10 lakh (his base price), could also have got rid of the Australian skipper Steve Smith in his first match had he not overstepped.

However, he came back strongly in the next game and picked up a 3-for against the Kings XI Punjab and the KXIP batsmen conceded the fact that it was difficult to pick the left-arm leggie.

Shivil took 6 wickets in 7 games and bowled a wonderful spell in the second qualifier against Sunrisers Hyderabad to tilt the game in Gujarat’s favour. However, SRH skipper Warner played a stupendous knock to nullify Shivil’s impressive figures of 2 for 22 in 4 overs.