IPL 2017: Top 5 leg-spinners resurrecting the magical art

#2 Samuel Badree (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Started late but with a hat-trick

West Indies’s Samuel Badree started late, but started with a bang, taking a hat-trick albeit in a losing cause. The mystery spinner, Sunil Narine’s lesser-known teammate, has picked up 9 wickets in 5 matches at 14.88 with an economy of 7.05.

Badree has bowled the second most economical 4-over spell this season with figures of 4/9 in 4 overs against the Mumbai Indians, although RCB lost that close low-scoring game.

Badree’s leg-breaks are his biggest strength, although he along with Chahal are ill-served on the Chinnaswamy tracks where dew is a major problem in the second innings and where the pitch is flat in the first. It doesn’t help that Badree doesn’t always find a place in the XI because of only four foreign players being allowed.