IPL 2020: Best stat-padders XI of the tournament
These players were busy improving their own stats and numbers and at the same time being a little benefit for their respective teams in IPL 2020.
8. Pat Cummins
As the most-expensive overseas purchase in the IPL’s 13-year-history, the stakes on Pat Cummins were high even before the tournament had started. But with the season now done and dusted, it’s still somewhat difficult to analyze if Cummins was able to justify his enormous price-tag.
And a good reason for this confusion is his misleading stats. While Cummins was inducted into the KKR team primarily as a strike-bowler, his 146-run tally from the season; including an unbeaten half-century against the Mumbai Indians- suggests that he operated decently-well as an all-rounder.
On the bowling front, Cummins scalped 12 wickets at an average of 34.06, at an economy of 7.86 RPO. Not out-and-out breakthrough figures- but given the impact he had in the powerplay- quite respectable.
What needs to be taken into account, though, is the fact that he claimed 4 out of those 12 wickets in a single match. More precisely, his last group-stage game against the Rajasthan Royals, where he ended with figures of 4-0-34-4. Considering how beefed-up his stats become when factoring just that one outing, a place for Cummins becomes obvious in this lineup.
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