5 players Kings XI Punjab might retain for the next IPL

5. Hashim Amla

Before the tournament began, there was a school of thought which placed doubt in the ability of the titanic Protean batsman in the shortest format of the game. After his performances this season, he has laid to rest all the speculations regarding his scoring abilities, with a couple effortless tons in the group stages of the IPL.

Amla demonstrated that one doesn’t need the brute power of Lynn and Gayle to conquer hearts in this format as he briskly found gaps with the gift of his beautiful wrists and timing to score runs at express pace. It’s not every day you see a batsman score a couple of tons in the IPL, and with his exhibition of shot-making this season, he is a certainty in the next few season wearing the red and silver of KXIP.