Over the years in IPL, there have been some glorious performers throughout groups and it might be a tough activity to compile an IPL XI from the listing of gamers. But RCB’s AB de Villiers has performed simply that. Staring with the opening mixture, he went with Virender Sehwag, with Rohit Sharma as his companion.
“Last night I was thinking that if I pick my IPL XI and I include myself, how bad would that look. So, opening the batting, I would pick someone whom I started with at Delhi, Viru (Virender Sehwag) at 1 and someone who I think has played some of the best cricket in the world in the last five years, Rohit at No. 2,” de Villiers was quoted as saying to Cricbuzz.
Virat Kohli was an apparent selection within the middle-order, adopted by Steve Smith and Kane Williamson. Then for all-rounders, he went for Ravindra Jadeja and Ben Stokes. For skipper he went in with MS Dhoni.
“Then obviously Virat at No. 3, followed by I’d say either Williamson, or Smith, or myself… these are the two replacements. Ben Stokes at 5, MS at six as captain, and at No. 7, I’d put Jaddu, Mr. Jadeja. Rashid Khan at 8, Bhuvi at 9, Kagiso Rabada at 10, and Bumrah at 11,” he added.
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Some of the attention-grabbing names lacking from the road up have been that of Suresh Raina and Lasith Malinga.
Here’s the XI:
Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson/Steve Smith/AB de Villiers, Ben Stokes, MS Dhoni (C and WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kagiso Rabada, Jasprit Bumrah
