The best XI of the IPL for 2018

Spinners

Can Rashid Khan repeat his IPL 2017 success in his second IPL season?

The spinners in our team are also our all-rounders, the first of whom is Sunil Narine. As well as providing valuable, in some cases top order, batting power at a strike rate of 172.30 in IPL 2017's case, the Knight Riders' Narine has picked up 95 wickets from 82 games at an average of 21.37 with an economy rate of 6.32, with three 4 wicket hauls and one 5 wicket haul.

While the West Indian is the team's off-spinner, Rashid Khan is the team's leg-spinner. Before IPL10, the Afghanistan spinner was a little-known associate cricket bowler and was rewarded an IPL contract after a relatively successful World T20. The teenage leggie's statistics for the 2017 competition are incredible. In 14 matches, he has kept his economy down to only 6.62 runs an over; while managing to get 17 wickets at an average of 21.05 with a best of 3/19. At the age of 19, this gives the SunRisers Hyderabad's star overseas player plenty of time to get even better and potentially become the world's best spinner; a title he already could lay claim to.