IPL 2020: Predicting 5 bowlers who could win the Purple Cap

#1 Imran Tahir

Imran Tahir

Imran Tahir is one of the leading leg-spinners going around in white-ball cricket, but the surface in Chennai also helps him a lot. The pitch at the M.Chidambaram stadium offers him a lot of purchase.

Tahir is not a loopy leg-spinner. He hardly gives the ball any air, but he generates quite a lot of turn despite not necessarily getting the ball up and down. Since he is so quick through the air, it’s hard for the batsmen to come down the pitch against him with any sort of conviction.

Tahir can spin the ball into the right-handers as well with an expertly disguised wrong one and he does that without any significant change in his action.

Since most of the batsmen are not sure which way the ball will spin, they often try and read Tahir off the back-foot and get caught in the crease to be trapped in front of the wickets.

Tahir won the Purple Cap in IPL 2019 and will be in contention to retain it this year. He is a sure starter for CSK and will be playing most of the games on a surface which is tailor-made for him.