Controversial, maybe, but we’ve been bold enough to rank the top ten greats in Indian Premier League (IPL) history. Do you agree with our selection of danger men, all of whom will feature in IPL 2019?
The 12th edition of the tournament, a prelude to a highly-anticipated summer of white-ball cricket culminating with the World Cup 2019, is almost upon us.
But there are some IPL players who have, over the course of its short history, become institutions at the annual event – the big guns, if you will. They are the crowd pullers, the impact players, and the match-winners. It is these players who make the IPL the spectacle it is.
10. David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
Virat Kohli. There could be no one else at No.1. Batsman nonpareil – as passionate a captain as they come and the biggest enigma in India cricket. Kohli has scored 4,948 runs from 163 games with 34 half-centuries and is involved in a tussle with Suresh Raina to become the tournament’s all-time top-scorer. He has scored at least 500 runs in three of the last four seasons, and he could well end up the best batsman in the league’s history.
All said, though, Bangalore have never won the IPL. Kohli’s legacy will feel incomplete without an IPL trophy. Is this the year?
