5 Test cricketers who are capable of bagging IPL contracts
A lot of IPL teams would be strategizing which players they will buy at the auction.
5. Jermaine Blackwood
Hailing from Jamaica comes an aggressive lower middle-order batsman who is an important player in the West Indies Test team. Blackwood came in as a replacement of Marlon Samuels against New Zealand in 2014 but soon found himself fixed at number 6 for the West Indies.
In 33 Test matches, Blackwood has scored 1,789 runs with 2 centuries and 13 fifties at an average of 32.53. In his debut match itself, he made a well-crafted 63 with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. Even though he plays just Test matches Blackwood is a natural stroke player.
He likes to keep the scoreboard ticking and he does that without taking much risk. Over the last 6 years, Blackwood has impressed everyone with his maturity and his reading of the game. Everyone knows about the dominance of the West Indies in T20 Cricket. The Caribbean team has won two T20 World Cups so far, in 2012 and 2016.
Even in the IPL, there is an abundance of Caribbean players in almost every team. Blackwood has trained with one of the greatest in the format, Andre Russell. Not only can he finish the games, but he can also come in handy with his part-time off-spin Blackwood is a complete cricketer and would be an important asset to any franchise he plays for.
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