IPL 2019: 5 Innovative Batsmen and 5 Spinners who can keep a check on them

#4 Batsman: Rishabh Pant (DC) | Bowler: Kuldeep Yadav (KKR)

Pant playing an innovative shot

Rishabh Pant and Kuldeep Yadav are the latest sensations in the Indian side. Both of these players show flamboyance and have had many people awe-struck with their performances with the willow and the ball respectively.

Pant is someone who has won the hearts of many people with aggressive batting and tremendous ball-striking ability. The keeper-batsman is just 21 years old and was the Emerging Player last season after scoring a whopping 684 runs at a strike-rate north of 160. The southpaw is also widely regarded as MS Dhoni's successor by fans and experts alike.

Pant doesn't necessarily try to innovate but his goal is rather to hit the ball for a boundary and he always manages to get the ball away despite getting caught up in awkward positions. In doing so, the left handed batsman plays shots all across the ground and even behind the keeper. He is very quick to adjust halfway through playing a shot and is one of the few players who had the courage to reverse sweep a pace bowler. When on song, he is an unstoppable player.

Kuldeep got the better of Pant once last season and this left-arm chinaman bowler is one of team India's most valuable assets. He isn't a mystery spinner by any means but the game has seen very few chinaman spinners that batsmen fail to realize that Kuldeep is another wrist spinner too.

This unintentional mystery that his bowling creates works for him and he too isn't a predictable bowler and it's tough to read him off the hand. He often bowls with a scrambled seam and this doesn't allow the batsman to read him off the pitch as well.

These two young guns will get an opportunity to square off on March 30 when the Knight Riders visit Delhi.