IPL 2018: Biggest strength of each franchise

#4 Kolkata Knight Riders - Overseas talent

The overseas talent can help the Knight Riders win their third IPL trophy

Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell and Mitchell Starc. There are very few cricketers who are better than any of these four in the shortest format of the game. If you are not a KKR fan, realizing that these four stars will play for the same team is bound to send a shiver down your spine.

Let's start with the Australians. Chris Lynn, rightly nicknamed "Lynn-sanity", smashed 295 runs in 7 games last season at an unreal strike rate of 180.98. He hasn't featured as much as he could have in the IPL owing to his nagging shoulder injury. He has shown what he is capable of in the Big Bash League on several occasions. If fit, Lynn is a force to reckon with. His countryman Mitchell Starc has nabbed 34 wickets in just 27 IPL games. He has shown how devastating a bowler he is in Australian colors. His fierce swinging bowling can trouble even the best of batsmen.

The West Indians are both prolific all-rounders. Andre Russell was the MVP of the 2015 season, having smashed 326 runs at a strike rate of - wait for it - 192.89. As if that wasn't enough, he managed to bag 14 scalps with the ball as well. Sunil Narine is widely regarded as one of the best bowlers in the IPL. He has bagged 95 wickets in 82 games at a ridiculously low economy of 6.32. As if his bowling wasn't enough, Narine opened the batting for the Knight Riders last seasons and notched up 224 runs at a whopping strike rate of 172.30!

It will be hard to stop the Knight Riders from their third IPL title if these four stellar cricketers hit their stride!