The Kings of IPL; the all-time IPL XI

8. Ravichandran Ashwin:

Here is another player, we can term a gift of the Indian T20 league to international cricket in the larger sense; very few knew who Ravichandran Ashwin was prior to his involvement and success with the CSK. He shares such a mature, adhesive and confident bond with his skipper Dhoni that the latter keeps on throwing stinger tasks at him and Ashwin responds to them with vigor. The off-spinner has played 104 matches for the Super Kings and has picked 92 wickets, what these numbers don’t show is that he has bowled against the most destructive batsmen with the new ball, regularly bowled in the power plays and has done the job for his skipper in the death over’s as well.