IPL 2019: Ranking the 8 teams by their death bowling

#6 Kolkata Knight Riders

Andre Russell

This might surprise many, but strong KKR side has a chink in their armory that is their death bowling. They are a team which relies on slow bowlers at almost every stage in their innings, Lockie Ferguson is the only genuine quickie that they have in the squad apart from Andre Russell. They do have Anrich Nortje in their ranks but he is quite inexperienced in the Indian conditions

The Indian contingent of fast bowlers is also quite new to the circuit and they will find it quite hard to bowl at the death. So, the onus will be on the Andre Russell to take up more responsibility and bowl at end overs more often than not.

The new signings Ferguson and Nortje will need to bowl more consistently towards the end of the innings for the KKR to end their title drought.

Candidates to bowl at death with their T20 economy rates:

1. Andre Russell-8.18
2. Anrich Nortje-6.47
3. Lockie Ferguson-7.37