IPL 2018: 4 benched players who can change their teams' fortunes

#3 Javon Searles (Kolkata Knight Riders)

KKR are facing troubles with their pace attack and Javon Searles can be the solution

If there is one area Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Dinesh Karthik would like to attend to at this very moment, it will be his team's bowling. More specifically, his team's pace bowling. While he has got three quality spinners and he can count on at least one to have a good day at the office, his pacers are down and out after receiving blows day in day out.

Youngster Shivam Mavi is not yet ready to make the ball do the talking and both overseas seamers Mitchell Johnson and Tom Curran have failed to impress. While the former's economy rate is well over 9, the latter has conceded runs at an economy rate of around 12 runs per over. Hence, KKR have got all but one option left and that is the Caribbean pacer Javon Searles. While Searles is not as experienced as Johnson or as exciting as Curran, but with the duo failing miserably it is the time to turn to the West Indian, and have a rendezvous with risk. Searles has got an economy rate of 8 runs per over in his T20 career and can offer a few wild swings when asked to.