Kuldeep Yadav lone Indian in ESPNCricinfo’s T20 team of 2018

The team has Aaron Finch at the top. Though he has struggled to make runs in the longer format of the game, it is a different story in the T20 format as he scored 1350 runs at a strike rate of more than 170 in 2018. To partner him at the top is Jos Buttler, who has found a place in the teams for all the three formats of the game. The year of 2018 was a good one for him as he amassed 1119 runs at a strike rate of almost 150. He has also been given the responsibility to keep wickets.

Kiwi all-rounder Colin Munro, who piled up 1530 runs, striking 151 runs per 100 balls, will be at number three in the batting order. He is also the lone New Zealander in the eleven. Babar Azam is the only Pakistani player and he made a place banking on the performance in which he scored 965 runs at the strike rate of almost 125 runs.

Apart from Yadav, there is one more spinner in the team. In a year of recognition for Rashid Khan, he picked a whopping 96 wickets at the average of 15.46 with the economy rate being 6.35. Australia’s Andrew Tye and England’s Jofra Archer complete the bowling line up. Archer and Khan are also handy with the bat lower down the batting order for any team in the shortest format of the game.