IPL 2018: An XI that can beat the 2018 IPL champions, CSK.

Middle-Order: Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, and AB de Villiers

Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Virat Kohli rightly explains why adjectives are of utmost importance. Kohli, as ever, was fluent with the bat in IPL 2018. This season, he was the seventh highest-run scorer. However, to his unfortunate terms, his team wasn't able to qualify for the playoffs.

This IPL, Kohli scored 530 runs at an average of 48.18 and a decent strike-rate of 139.10 which also includes four fifties with the highest score being 95*.

Rishabh Pant (Delhi Daredevils)

Joining Virat Kohli in the middle-order is the promising player from Delhi Daredevils, Rishabh Pant. For Pant, this season was no different from Kane or Rahul's. This season marked a new phase in Pant's career.

From 14 matches that he played, Pant scored a mammoth 684 runs at an average of 52.61 and a strike-rate of 162.67 which also includes eight fifties and a solitary hundred with the highest score being 128*. For his spectacular performances throughout the 2018 IPL, Pant won the Emerging Player of the Season as well as the Stylish Player of the Season award.

AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Superman, you call him. AB de Villiers is the name. You have got to awe him when he is at the crease or on the field, because, of all the crazy things that have happened in cricket, AB has been a part of it. This season was no different for AB de Villiers. He was the second highest scorer for his team in this year's IPL.

In 12 matches, AB scored 480 runs at an average of 53.33 and a strike-rate of 174.54 which also includes six fifties with the highest score being 90*. Like Kohli, AB too had to bear the taste of being knocked out of the tournament before the playoffs.