IPL 2020: 5 players who can win emerging player award for this season
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The Dream11 Indian Premier League 2020 will give its champion for the 13th season on Tuesday. Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals will fight the final battle to lift the coveted IPL trophy.
Along the way, the IPL has been a platform for young players to come out and showcase their skills. It has also provided a unique international platform for the players to strive forward and make a name for themselves. As a result, a number of young players emerged in this season’s IPL. Every team had at least one or more young players who made a mark in the season. Some of them are in the race to win the emerging player of the year award for the 2020 season.
This award is given by BCCI to the player who has best demonstrated, through his performances during the season and is a potential future star of international cricket. The player will receive a cheque and a trophy after the finals.
Here are the 5 players who could win the Emerging Player of the Year Award for season 13 of Dream11 IPL:
5. Ravi Bishnoi
Bishnoi was picked by Kings XI Punjab after a good display of leg-spin in the U-19 Cricket World Cup earlier this year. He was mentored by head coach Anil Kumble himself for IPL 2020. The youngster from Rajasthan impressed with his bowling and was a regular part of the KXIP squad.
The leg-spinner played all 14 games for KXIP and picked up 12 wickets. His economy rate remained at 7.37 and the best bowling figure of 3/29. Although playing in his debut season for KXIP he was a vital cog for the team in the tournament. He one of the contenders for the award and one for the future.
4. Ruturaj Gaikwad
The start of the IPL 2020 was not very good for Ruturaj Gaikwad who contracted Covid-19 before the CSK’s team training camp. Even though he covered and made a comeback on the field his start was poor as he got out for a first-ball duck. In the next game as well he failed to improve his batting and as a result was dropped from the side.
CSK particularly had a very offseason in its 13-year history of IPL. Later on, Gaikwad was given a chance to showcase his batting talent after CSK were out for the race of the playoffs. Gaikwad this time played classy knocks as he scored three fifties in a row in 6 games. He made 204 runs in 6 games of the tournament with the highest score of 72.
3. Washington Sundar
The all-rounder from Tamil Nadu Washington Sundar for the third season now has been nominated for the award. This year he played a vital role for Virat Kohli RCB who made it into the playoffs of the tournament. Unfortunately, they lost in the eliminator to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Sundar was given the role to bowl in the powerplay as well as in the middle overs. Although he didn’t pick as many wickets for the team, his accurate bowling was the talking point in the tournament. He had one of the lowest economy rate of 5.96 in the tournament. He picked 8 wickets for the team and scored 111 runs in batting.
2. Rahul Chahar
Rahul Chahar has been the find of the tournament for Mumbai Indians in last year’s IPL. He continued to impress everyone with his precise and sharp bowling in IPL 2020 as well. Chahar, Krunal Pandya, and Jayant Yadav were the only spin bowling options for MI in the tournament.
Chahar played all the 15 matches for MI so far and has picked 15 wickets at a good economy rate of 7.46. He is likely to be part of the MI squad for the finals and can improve his tally. He has 30 wickets in IPL in three seasons and has already surpassed last year’s tally of 13 wickets for Mumbai Indians.
1. Devdutt Padikkal
IPL 2020 was a debut season for youngster from Karnataka Devdutt Padikkal. Padikkal had impressed the RCB team with good performances in the domestic circuit. He was given a chance to open the RCB batting alongside Aaron Finch. He brought up his first fifty on his IPL debut and scored 56 runs.
Padikkal continued his form further in the tournament and scored 5 fifties in total. He is joint highest in this number along with KL Rahul and Ab de Villiers. In total, he made 473 runs for RCB with a decent average of 31.53 runs. He was solid in the opening for RCB who rotated Finch and Josh Philippe but Padikkal never lost his place from the side.
Although scoring runs for the team most of the times, RCB couldn’t qualify for the finals. However Padikkal in his debut IPL season gave many a reason for RCB fans to be proud about. He could be a deserving winner of the emerging player of the year award for 2020.
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Rishabh Tripathi
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