IPL 2021: Ranking all teams based on their death bowling ahead of the season
Having bowlers who are effective during the death is often the difference between teams that win titles and teams that don’t.
3. Mumbai Indians
After having won back-to-back titles, the Rohit Sharma-led franchise will be on the hunt for a hattrick of titles and their 6th title overall. Death bowling has been one of their strengths over the last few years given that they have had gun bowlers like Lasith Malinga and Jasprit Bumrah.
Bumrah is arguably the finest death bowler in the world at present and he has delivered several match-winning performances for both club and country. His yorkers are very accurate and with a bowler like him, the flow of runs is definitely going to be limited from at least one end.
Although Trent Boult isn’t great during these overs, his fellow Kiwi, Adam Milne is excellent at the death. He makes the most of his ability to bowl at nearly 150 kph and his economy rate during this period is among the very best during the last few years. Nathan Coulter-Nile is also good at the death as he has shown in the past while Marco Jansen also showed few glimpses of his talent in the recently-concluded CSA T20 Challenge.
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