IPL 2018: The invincible all-rounders XI

Wicketkeeper and the tail

Kedar Jadhav did a decent job while keeping wickets for RCB

Kedar Jadhav (wk)

Kedar Jadhav has been blowing hot and cold recently but his added skill of wicket keeping finds him a place in this year’s all-rounders XI. Jadhav is a street-smart cricket and can come up with some innovative shots in crunch situations. The Malinga-esque bowler has gone to Chennai Super Kings this time around and will play under Dhoni’s captaincy.

Krunal Pandya

It is not often that players like Krunal Pandya find themselves at the tail-end of the batting order, but such is the quality of this team that a player with an IPL batting average of over 35 features at the No. 10 spot. The elder Pandya is a very capable batsman and played a major role in MI’s title victory in 2017. Like Shakib, Krunal is also a left-arm spinner and bowls tight line and lengths.

Dwayne Bravo

The senior Bravo returns to the ‘CSK family’, as he likes to call it, this year. His batting potential may have waned over the years but he still remains a useful bowler with his dipping slower ones. Apart from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dwayne Bravo is the only other bowler in IPL history to bag the Purple cap twice.