IPL 2018: 5 players who could score the first century of the season
Scoring a century in the IPL is a matter of pride for any batsman, and scoring the first century of a tournament is like the cherry on the cake. Brendon McCullum was the first to score a century in the IPL in its very first edition of 2008.
A total of 47 centuries have been scored by 30 different batsmen in the last ten seasons of the IPL with Chris Gayle leading the lot with five hundred. Virat Kohli is not too far behind the Caribbean and is leading the Indian pack on the list with four centuries.
However, not a single century has been scored so far this season. While there are many talented batsmen capable of scoring centuries, it will be interesting to see who becomes the first person to hit a hundred.
Right on this note, let us look at five players who are most likely to hit the first hundred.
5) Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma was surrounded by a large amount of criticism when he failed to perform during the first few games of the tournament. But he found his scoring touch in MI's last match against RCB and started looking like a player we all wanted to see.
The MI captain is one of the few players to score 4000+ IPL runs and is in the third spot on the list of the all-time leading IPL run scorers. He has bagged one century in the IPL and also has 33 half centuries to his name. He bats with an impressive strike rate of 131.30 with 109 being his highest score.
The Indian opener narrowly missed out on the first century of the tournament with his brilliant inning of 94 against RCB. However, now that he is seemingly back to his best, we might see him scoring the hundred soon.