5 Players DC should release ahead of IPL 2021 season
DC made their maiden IPL final where they lost to MI by five wickets.
3. Prithvi Shaw
The talented Mumbai batsman Prithvi Shaw is certainly among the surprise picks in this list. Playing his third season this time, Shaw has scored 826 runs in 38 innings at a strike-rate of just a shade under 140 in his IPL career. After a couple of decent seasons before this one, Shaw was expected to make it big in this edition of the Dream11 Indian Premier League.
However, Shaw was just a shadow of himself this season. He scored just 228 runs in 13 innings at an average of 17.54. The worst part about it was that he actually started the season well, scoring 198 runs at a strike-rate of 151 in the first six innings. The decline in form came in the latter half of the tournament, as he scored just 30 more runs in another seven innings.
He was extremely susceptible to the moving ball and the short ball. With the opening pair of Dhawan and Stoinis firing in the all-important Qualifier 2, it is highly likely that Delhi can release Shaw and get a more responsible Indian middle-order batsman.
The fact that the DC management dropped him for a couple of matches in the league stage and in the Qualifiers goes to show that he might not be a part of the plans in the coming seasons.
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