IPL 2019: Best foreign player from each team
Foreign players are an integral component of any IPL squad. The rules of the Indian Premier League allow the franchises to pick a maximum of eight foreign players in their squad and play a maximum of four in the playing XI at a time.
Hence, the strategy of the franchises while picking foreign players is forming a core of four and picking backups for each of them. While selecting the foreign players, franchises look for the unique traits that they would not ordinarily find in the Indian players. As a result, most of the foreign players are big-hitting batsmen, potent fast bowlers with the ability to bowl good yorkers, or all-rounders.
In this article, we take a look at the best foreign player of each IPL team in 2019.
Delhi Capitals - Trent Boult
Trent Boult has been New Zealand's best bowler in all formats of the game for quite some time now. He was picked up by the Delhi Capitals in 2018 and was a partnership-breaker for them last season.
Boult has extraordinary ability to adapt to the various needs of the game. He can swing the new ball quite a bit as well as bowl impeccable yorkers at the death. The Delhi Capitals are blessed to have a bowler like Boult who they can use in every situation.
Trent Boult has picked up 33 wickets from 29 IPL games at an average of 29 with the ball. He is undoubtedly Delhi's best foreign signing based on current form.
Kings XI Punjab - David Miller
There is a debate over who is the better foreign player in the KXIP team between Chris Gayle and David Miller. Although Gayle has done his fair share of destruction in the past few seasons of the IPL, there is no doubt that David Miller is the most valuable overseas player for the Kings XI Punjab for the last five seasons.
On his day, he can clear any boundary at his will. He came up with a statement, 'When it's in the arc, it's out of the park'a few years ago in the IPL which became famous among the commentators and the same aptly describes his style of play.
The southpaw has scored 1637 runs from 69 IPL games at a strike rate of 140. Miller is the backbone of the KXIP middle order and will look to continue his good work of several years in 2019 as well.
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