IPL 2018, MI vs KXIP:5 player battles to look forward to 

#2 Evin Lewis v Ankit Rajpoot

Evin Lewis

The West Indian opener is one of the most dangerous batsmen in T20 cricket and Evin Lewis has displayed his abilities as a power-hitter plenty of times in this year’s IPL. He is striking at 136.55 and averaging 29.54. However, it is interesting to note that when it comes to pace, his average drops to 21 and the strike rate of 127. Therein lies the opportunity for KXIP and in particular, for their pace bowler Ankit Rajpoot.

The tall fast bowler has been excellent for KXIP so far and his taken 8 wickets in 6 games, with an economy rate of 8.69. In the Powerplays, he has performed even better. 5 of those 8 wickets have come in the Powerplays and his economy rate is 7.3 during that phase of the game. It is clear as day that he is going to be the one who will go head to head with Lewis tonight and it is going to be an extremely hard-fought duel.