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#1 Rishabh Pant
In IPL 2018, Rishabh Pant was the star performer scoring 684 runs at an amazing strike rate of 173.60 with five fifties and one special knock of 128 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad, where he smashed Bhuvneshwar Kumar for 28 runs in the last over. He finished second in the orange cap race.
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Pant has been ignored for the ODI and T20I squad but has been selected for India A tour of England. If he performs in this crucial tour, there is no denying that he could find a spot in the middle order.
The swashbuckling batsman from Delhi has scored most of the runs at number 4 which could work in his favor. The ability to play both spin and fast well also gives him an edge over other contenders.
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