Harsha Bhogle Reveals his T20 XI of the Year

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah are the two Indian players who have made it to Harsha Bhogle’s T20’s team of the year.

There’s a total of three players from the Windies, two players from England, two from South Africa, one from Pakistan and Afghanistan each and two players from India in Harsha’s best XI.

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Virat Kohli was one of the notable exclusions from the team, to which Harsha had an answer. He backed his case by mentioning that the Indian skipper did not have a great T20 season this year, the reason why he was not included.

All the players mentioned on the list have done well in the T20 format, especially Rashid Khan. He has emerged as the pick of the players in the year 2017. Whether talking of T20 leagues or international cricket, he has shown his prowess at every stage.

Recently, he won the Man of the Match award on his Big Bash League debut. In 2017, Rashid pouched 17 wickets in 10 T20Is he played for Afghanistan and was also one of the best bowlers in IPL, where he scalped 17 wickets in his debut IPL season.

Talking of the two Indian players viz Jasprit Burmah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bumrah scalped 12 T20I wickets in 2017 and had 20 victims in IPL. Bhuvneshwar, on the other hand, had scalped just five wickets in T20Is but he was the highest wicket-taker in IPL with 26 wickets to his name.

Here is Harsha Bhogle’s T20 team of the year –

Evin Lewis (Windies), Alex Hales (England), AB de Villiers (South Africa), Jos Buttler (England), David Miller (South Africa), Kieron Pollard (Windies), Sunil Narine (Windies), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India), Jasprit Bumrah (India), Mohammad Amir (Pakistan).

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