IPL 2022: 5 Players From Punjab Kings (PBKS) Who Can Win The Man Of The Tournament Award

Punjab Kings (PBKS) kick off their IPL 2022 campaign against Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 27 at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai. It is the second of the two games that day with DC and Mumbai Indians playing a 3 pm game as well.

The franchise added 23 players along with the two players they retained ahead of the mega auction. PBKS are placed in group B alongside CSK, RCB, SRH and GT. The IPL 2022 will be a 10-team affair with 74 matches to be played across four venues in Maharashtra in just above two months. Wankhede and DY Patil Stadium will host 20 matches each while the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai and MCA Stadium in Pune will play hosts to 15 games each.

Punjab Kings with 72 crores bought some of the proven players in the IPL. The players they added include names like Shikhar Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Jonny Bairstow amongst others. In this article, we look at five PBKS players who can win the Man of the Tournament award in IPL 2022.

IPL 2022: 5 Players From Punjab Kings (PBKS) Who Can Win The Man Of The Tournament Award

Shikhar Dhawan

The southpaw has been the most consistent Indian batter in the IPL since the last few seasons. He joined Delhi Capitals in 2019 and scored over 1200 runs for the side across three seasons. Punjab roped him in for 8.25 crores and have secured the run-scoring charts. His role with the franchise remains the same and he will hope to find some support from the other end.

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Mayank Agarwal

Agarwal will lead the PBKS in IPL 2022. He was one of the two players retained ahead of the mega auction. Agarwal along with KL Rahul scored the most number runs for Punjab in the last three seasons, With captaincy on his shoulders, it adds all the more responsibility on him to score runs with the bat as well. He is not in the greatest of form at the moment having not scored many in the first Test against Sri Lanka.

Jonny Bairstow

Bairstow is fresh off a hundred in the first Test against West Indies and will carry form into IPL 2022. Bairstow is likely to open with Dhawan at the other end. He played three seasons for SRH scoring over 1000 runs for the franchise. He is a batter who plays a long innings once he gets set. He is certainly amongst the Punjab players who can win the Man of the Tournament Award.

Kagiso Rabada

Punjab bagged Protean pacer Kagiso Rabada for a whopping 9.25 crores. However, he might miss the first few matches of the IPL due to his international commitments with South Africa. Rabada won the Purple Cap in IPL 2020 picking 30 wickets in the season. He is one of the most reputed pacers going around and certainly makes a case for winning the Man of the Tournament award.

Odean Smith

Smith was bagged by PBKS for 6 crores. He displayed his all-round abilities in the recently concluded T20I series against India. He is a mighty power-hitter with the ball and a handy option with the ball too. With just four overseas slots available it will be interesting to see if he plays all 14 games for Punjab.

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