IPL 2020: 4 dark horses to watch out for

#1 Tom Banton

Can he provide the firepower at the top for KKR?

England has been consistently generating fearless top-order batsmen from the past few years. Tom Banton is the latest. He is a typical modern-day wicket-keeper batsman who gained limelight in the last season of T20 Blast, the English T20 tournament, where he finished as the second-highest run-getter with 549 runs from 13 matches at a strike-rate of over 160. He scored a match-winning century and 4 fifties in his journey with Somerset.

The 21-year-old cricketer soon earned contracts in other T20 leagues with signings by Brisbane Heat in BBL and Qalandars in PSL and is on a verge to become an IPL superstar. Bagged by Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 1 crore, Banton is set to take his first step in the biggest T20 league in the world. Being an unknown commodity for the bowlers, Tom Banton might taste a lot of success as he brings the Chris Lynn-esque batting style to the table, on which the Kolkata-based franchise has thrived in the past.