IPL 2020: Best overseas XI of the tournament

11. Anrich Nortje

While most of us struggle to pronounce his name, similarly most of the batsmen fail to hit this pacer out of the park. This South African bowler is now one of the fastest bowlers in the history of IPL. Coming in as the replacement of Chris Woakes, Nortje has impressed everyone with his simple, fast, and accurate bowling.

However, the South African bowler’s economy rate was damaged by the Mumbai Indians, but it is acceptable as this is T20, the batsman-friendly game. No one had expected Nortje to play for the Delhi Capitals. This year, he was the surprise inclusion in the playing XI. And from the very first match, he started to create a problem for the top order batsmen of the opposition team.

An economy rate of 8.30 is acceptable for someone who has to bowl in the powerplay and the deaths. Therefore, Nortje makes it to the best overseas eleven of IPL 2020. This year, he has taken over 20 wickets, which depicts his abilities to take quick wickets both in the powerplay and in the late phase of the inning.

Nortje has been DC’s backbone this season as he took the charge of the bowling line-up whenever Rabada was expensive. Therefore, any team would like to have three world-class pace bowlers in this line-up, and hence, Nortje completes this playing XI.

~Written by Kumar Tatwamasi