IPL 2022: Best overseas XI from the seventh week
These players have performed exceedingly well in the seventh week.
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4. Jonny Bairstow (wk) (PBKS)
The wicketkeeper-batsman from England has had an on-again-off-again kind of a season so far. Although he has had a majority of his success this season at the top of the order, he has shown flexibility by batting in the middle order too. This week, he played two games and scored a fifty in each one of them.
Firstly, it was against RR where he scored 56(40). Not a typical Bairstow innings, but still important for his team as they managed to score 189, albeit in a losing cause. Then came the match against RCB where he absolutely tore into Siraj and Hazlewood’s bowling. He smashed seven sixes and four fours in his 66(29) with a strike rate in excess of 227.
His belligerent knock against RCB helped Punjab get two crucial points and keep their playoffs chances alive. Safe behind the stumps, Bairstow has been chosen to keep wickets for this team as well.
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