Cricket in 2018: T20 League-wise Best batsman
These players were the best during a particular T20 League.
Mohammad Shahzad | Afghanistan Premier League
The 30-year-old Afghanistan wicket-keeper batsman has set the T20 leagues on fire in recent times. He is an extremely powerful hitter of the ball and is very aggressive in his approach. Shahzad had a brilliant run in the Afghanistan Premier League this year.
This opener represented the Paktia Panthers in the first ever edition of the league and was absolutely on fire. In only 9 games, Shahzad scored 344 runs to end as the leading run scorer in the tournament. It was a tough pick between him and Chris Gayle who performed equally well and scored 315 runs in 7 games. It would be fair to say that Shahzad rode his team alone in the tournament.
Aaron Finch | T20 Blast
Australian limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch joined the T20 Blast at the later stages of the tournament. Yet, such is the impact that he created that he can easily be the best batsman of the league. In just a few games that he featured in, the Aussie opener managed to finish as the second highest run scorer.
Finch played eight games for Surrey in the tournament and tallied up 589 runs at an average of 147 and strike rate of 182. He hit two centuries and three half-centuries in addition to 60 boundaries and 31 sixes. Australia will love to see him in this kind of form in the ODIs in the lead up to the World Cup.
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