Left Handers' XI of IPL 2015

8. Jagadeesha Suchith

The left arm spinner of MI has been one of their consistent pros and has managed to assist Harbhajan Singh decently well with his spin. Suchith has managed to pick up 10 wickets this season and has played some brilliant cameos at the death overs for them.

The 21-year bowling all-rounder’s performance with the ball in the must win match against SRH in the final group stage game cemented the place for MI in the play-offs with sheer comfort. In a single over, Suchith turned the tables by dismissing Henriques and Naman Ojha in back to back deliveries.

Suchith conceded just 14 runs in the match in 3 overs. Also, his cameo against KXIP where he assisted Harbhajan Singh did prove his talent with the bat. MI could not win the match but it was a cherishable partnership between Harbhajan and him for sure. The 21-year old youngster is surely the uncapped player to pick up in the squad.

9. Mitchell Starc

Mitchel Starc

Since his inclusion to the RCB squad, Starc has been lethal with the ball. Having picked up 18 wickets in just 11 matches, Starc has been quite economical too. He conceded his first six in the tournament after bowling 205 deliveries.

His Yorkers, nowadays referred to as the ‘Starc-ers’, have been quite much unplayable and that brought him 9 bowled dismissals in this season for RCB. Right in his first game of this season, the left arm pacer proved his point by taking 3 wickets at the expense of 22 runs which helped RCB to restrict RR to a tiny total of 130 runs.

No matter how strong RCB’s batting line up is, it has been their bowling attack, led by Starc, which lifted the team in the later half of this IPL and guaranteed a place in the playoffs for them. Starc’s lethal bowling against KXIP where he went on to take 4 wickets by conceding just 15 runs made KXIP look too much vulnerable. Also, needless to mention, he has been ecstatic for RCB in the death overs. Starc is currently one of the best bowlers in the limited over cricket and he can indisputably be the trump card for any squad.

10 Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan

One of the old pros of the Indian cricket and a master of swing bowling, Zaheer Khan has made a decent comeback in this season. As a matter of fact, Zaheer is currently one of the leading wicket takers in the history of IPL and has managed to pick up 7 wickets in this season out of 7 matches.

After being out of cricket for almost a year, the left arm pacer made a fairy tale alike comeback when he struck his first wicket right in the second delivery of the match between DD and KXIP.

The veteran master of swing bowling proved his deadly instinct in the match against CSK where he conceded just 9 runs in his spell of 4 overs and took 2 crucial wickets of McCullum and Dhoni to take his team to a cruising position.

He can be a destructive bowler in the powerplay overs. In the death overs too, his impact as a swing bowler can be a boost for any team. Another important aspect of having him in the squad is his constant support for the young bowlers. We have seen many a times in the past that his influence guided youngsters to produce the best out of them.

11. Ashish Nehra

Ashish Nehra

The veteran pacer has been one of the spearheads for CSK in this IPL and has been amongst the wickets. Nehra has managed to take as many as 19 wickets this season and has been in the run for the purple cap. He has coped up perfectly to his role in the CSK squad as a breakthrough bowler.

This was proved by him in the match against RCB at Bangalore where he went on to take 4 crucial wickets, including the one of Virat Kohli and gave away just 10 runs by bowling out the entire 4 overs.

In a batting dominated surface at the Chinnaswamy stadium, where bowlers hardly manage to find their line and length safe, Nehra’s economy rate stood to be 2.50, which is something that is enought to define his destructive instinct. With this man in form, any opposition might find it way too difficult to retain wickets.