#4 Krunal Pandya
It is astonishing that Krunal Pandya has not yet made his bow in international cricket, taking into account his performances for Mumbai Indians in the past two IPL seasons. Krunal is arguably even more talented than his brother Hardik but has failed to make it to the Indian side thus far.
Equally adept with both bat and ball, Krunal has the ability to build an innings and then go hammer and tongs at the death. His strike rate in 17 List A games is hovering around the 90 mark while he scores at 152.59 in T20s.
Krunal is also a partnership-breaker. In the IPL, he managed to dismiss arguably the world's greatest batsman at the moment, AB de Villiers, a whopping four times in four innings.
The 26-year-old earned his maiden A-team call-up recently, where he scored a handy 48 in one of the games.
Against an Australian middle-order comprising the likes of Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, James Faulkner and Marcus Stoinis, a left-armer capable of spinning the ball away would definitely be a useful inclusion.
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