Youth Aggressors of IPL THREE

At this stage of the tournament it would be nice to compile of list of Star players of IPL THREE so far, especially Indian players who have played better than expected and won games for their team or rescued the team and performed consistently for their team.

Listed below are some of the Indian stars who have performed superbly so far,  yet the common factor amongst them is that NONE of them are chosen to represent Indian team for World T-20 which begins right as the IPL ends.

Chennai Super Kings clearly have Murali Vijay as their brightest star. From nowhere , this ‘made for test match‘ player has come and played few remarkable innings to shock the oppositions out of the game and have made selectors thinking that why he is not a part of the Indian team of World T-20 . R Ashwin also seems to be the lethal package of T20 Cricket.

Delhi Daredevils has some of the strongest batting lineup with Sehwag, Gambhir and Warner firing, but it is Amit Mishra who has delivered consistently with his slow leg spin and fooled quite a few batsmen with his turn and bounce and his clever wrong ones. He would surely be feeling unlucky about not getting selected for World T-20. Another bowler to watch out from DD camp is Umesh Yadav who has shown pace, which none other Indian bowlers have shown so far.

Another slow bowler who has impressed is Pragyan Ojha for Deccan Chargers and has been taking wickets by the bundle and also being a miser with the bowl although his team has been a failure as a collective unit.

Naman Ojha and Siddharth Trivedi have been a revelation for Rajasthan Royals. Naman Ojha is not the best of wicketkeeper but he is an explosive batsman and certainly worth considering as a backup option for Dhoni rather than Dinesh Kartik atleast in T-20s. Siddharth Trivedi has been a clever bowler, consistently amongst the wickets and the last over he bowled against the Deccan Chargers to deny them an easy victory was an example of his cool and sharp mind.

The Mumbai Indian youngsters namely Saurabh Tiwary, Ambati Rayadu and Shikhar Dhawan have really been the real surprises and under the leadership of the ‘Master’ they have blossomed to be a real India prospect in near future. Also R. Sathish has done whatever is required from him quite well, hopefully these youngsters would continue to perform with same intensity as the tournament approaches its end.

Bangalore Boys Robin Uthappa and Manish Pandey have also taken a huge load of batting upon them and delivered consistently for their team.Manish Pandey could have almost made it to the World T-20 team but for the selector’s preference over Rohit Sharma, who can bowl a bit too. Uthappa has been good in patches and not very consistent although it seems he is getting his form back.

Other notable perfromers are Manoj Tiwary for the KKR team and Manvinder Bisla for the Kings XI Punjab, although their collective team effort are not good enough for them to be in real contention.

There have been other good performances in IPL from established Indian stars like  Sehwag, Yusuf Pathan, MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma and of course the one only Sachin Tendulkar. But the percentage of young stars much higher than senior players.

Now their is lot of option in selectors kitty and even it is good for Team India only, they have good bench strength.