IPL 2024 Team of the tournament: The IPL 2024 season came to a conclusion on Sunday (May 26) night in Chennai with KKR winning their third IPL title with an 8-wicket win over SRH. The Shreyas Iyer-led unit hammered Pat Cummins’ side in both Qualifier 1 and the final to clinch the trophy this year.
This was a thoroughly entertaining season with a lot of batting records getting broken. Some bowlers, though, stood out with their performances, some in terms of containing runs and some in terms of making crucial breakthroughs.
In this article, we picked the best XI of the tournament. A few in-form players like Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, and Trent Boult have missed, but others have their places justified.
IPL 2024 Team of the tournament:
Openers: Virat Kohli, Sunil Narine
Kohli finished the tournament with the Orange Cap and was the only batsman to breach the 700-run mark this season. He scored 741 runs at an average of 61 and a strike rate of 155. He slammed 1 century and five fifties.
Sunil Narine bagged the Player of the Tournament award. While Narine was once again, and expectedly, outstanding with the ball, taking 17 wickets at an economy of 6.69, he turned back the clock with the bat by smashing 488 runs at a strike rate of 180, hitting one century and three fifties.
Middle-order: Sanju Samson (wk), Riyan Parag, Nicholas Pooran
Samson and Parag were the key cogs in RR reaching the playoffs. Parag had a breakthrough season as he amassed 573 runs at an average of 52. He finished as the third-highest scorer of the season. Samson scored 531 runs at an average of 48 and a strike rate of 153. Through his impressive show in the IPL 2024, Samson earned a place in India’s T20 World Cup squad.
Pooran was once again at his destructive best and carried LSG’s middle-order often. The left-hander blasted 499 runs at a strike rate of 178.
Finishers: Tristan Stubbs, Andre Russell
Stubbs was another youngster who had an epic IPL season. The young South African was arguably the best death-over hitter this season. He walloped 378 runs at a strike rate of 190.
It feels like Russell had more impact with the ball this season than with the bat: he picked up 19 wickets and had a bowling strike rate of only 9.26. He also made batting contributions, scoring 222 runs at a strike rate of 185.
Bowlers: Varun Chakravarthy, Harshal Patel, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah
Chakravarthy silently made impacts with the ball regularly and finished with 21 scalps, the second most. Harshit Rana, too, made significant contributions to KKR’s title triumph by taking 19 wickets.
Harshal Patel bagged the Purple Cap for the second time in his career. The Punjab Kings pacer took 24 wickets. The biggest positive for Mumbai Indians was Bumrah, who snapped 20 wickets and kept an enviable economy of 6.48.
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