IPL 2019: 3 Youngsters who could be the game-changers for KKR

#3 Shubman Gill

Shubman Gill

After a breathtaking run in the 2018 ICC U-19 World Cup, Shubman Gill's cricketing world changed forever. Riding on the back of his excellent performances in the 2018 ICC U-19 World Cup, the 19-year-old batsman from Punjab signed a hefty INR 1.8 Crore deal with KKR in the 2018 IPL Auction.

Having featured in 13 games, Shubman fared decently in the 11th edition of IPL. He amassed 203 runs at an astounding average of 33.83 and a fair strike-rate of 146.04. He also had a solitary fifty to his name. In IPL 2018, Kolkata utilized Gill as a middle-order batsman and numbers speak that he didn't disappoint them.

The Kolkata team management will hope similar kind of performances from Gill in IPL 2019 as well. Thus, with a great sense of batting dynamics, Gill will unquestionably turn out to be a game-changing outlook for Kolkata in the subsequent edition of IPL.