Five former players who would have dominated the IPL

#1 - Sir Viv Richards

The presence of Viv Richards, arguably the greatest batsman of all time, on this list should surprise no one. With his "swagger" and utter disdain for bowlers, Richards would have been like the Chris Gayle of 2011-12 multiplied by a hundred. Along with Kapil Dev, he re-defined what playing aggressively meant in his era, and had a strike rate of 90 in ODIs. But while Kapil Dev's average was only 23.79, Richards averaged almost double of that at a whopping 47. His batting ability alone would easily make him the one player that every cricket lover wishes they would have seen in the IPL, but Richards was also a handy bowler, picking up 118 wickets in the 187 matches he played. When Virat Kohli made 972 runs in IPL 2016, everyone thought that that was the pinnacle of IPL batting. But it is safe to assume that had Richards played the IPL, many records including Kohli's would have been under threat.