The International Cricket Council organizes the international championship of T20 cricket. The competition consists of the 10 top teams from the ICC rankings plus six other successful teams in the T20 World Cup Qualifiers. The West Indies are the most successful campaigners, with two World Cup titles. India won the inaugural 2007 competition in South Africa while Australia is the current title holder. India is just behind Sri Lanka with a match win percentage of 63.51. India’s International Cricket team has a great chance to win the T20 World Cup 2022. Virat Kohli holds the record for most runs in a single T20 World Cup competition with 319 runs in 2014. MS Dhoni, as a wicketkeeper, holds the record for the most dismissals in the T20 World Cup with 32 dismissals.
Australia will host the T20 World Cup 2022 from October to November 2022. There are a lot of Indian cricketers that do extremely well in this year’s IPL. Playing in such an exciting and stressful competition before the World Cup might improve India’s chances of taking the T20 World Cup 2022 title. India would need a few players to play exceptionally well to take the title. Let’s look at some of the surprising players that can impact India during the T20 World Cup 2022.
Rahul Tewatia
Rahul Tewatia plays as an all-rounder for the T20 Indian Cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and a Right-arm leg-break spin bowler. In this year’s IPL competition, he plays for the Gujarat Titans. His batting role in the team is as a finisher. Rahul Tewatia’s stats are quite incredible. In 99 International T20 matches, he scored 1,385 runs with a strike rate of 143.5. He also took 54 wickets at an average of 30.4. In the IPL, he scored 736 runs in 60 matches with a strike rate of 130.7. He also took 32 wickets in the IPL with an average of 34.2.
His talent is that he can start hitting big shots from the moment he gets to the batting crease. His strike rate in this year’s IPL is a staggering 150.78. His best score in this year’s IPL is 43 runs from 25 balls. He is one of the few batters with no Ducks to his name in the IPL. In the IPL he has scored 57 fours and 35 sixes. In the 563 balls he faced in the IPL, he scored 736 runs. With Rahul Tewatia’s stats, it’s clear that he can have a major influence on India’s chance to win the T20 World Cup down in Australia.
Rahul Tripathi
Rahul Tripathi is a right-handed opening batsman from Ranchi. He burst onto the cricket scene in the 2017 IPL edition, displaying his great skill-set. His talent is that he possesses flair and has the ability to clear the infield with ease during the power play in the first six overs. In the 2022 IPL, he is playing in the Rajasthan Royals franchise. With Rahane and Butler opening the innings, he is sidelined for most games. In the 73 IPL matches that he did open, he scored 1,693 runs with a strike rate of 140.73. He has the distinction of hitting six sixes in an over, not once but twice, in the local cricket arena.
Rahul Tripathi’s stats in the IPL is great. In IPL 2017, he opened the Pune Franchise. He made seven thirty-plus scores for Pune in eight innings, which included a magnificent 93 of just 52 balls against the KKR franchise. To prove how hard he can hit the ball is that 78 runs of that 93 runs came through boundaries. He is a great opener and given a chance, he may surprise the cricketing world in the T20 World Cup 2022.
Umran Malik
Umran Malik is a 22-year-old right-arm fast bowler from Srinagar in the Jammu & Kashmir district. In the 2022 IPL, he is playing for the Sunrisers Hyderabad. Umran Malik is a seriously fast young bowler. He has the great advantage of having Dale Steyn as his bowling coach in the Sunrisers Hyderabad. With Steyns’ assistance, he can channel these seriously quick balls into more accuracy and bring in more variations. He is India’s latest fast bowling sensation.
Umran Malik’s stats are excellent for a young bowler entering the IPL arena. In the 2022 IPL, he took five wickets for 25 runs against one of the table-topping teams, Gujarat Titans. The yorkers that he is bowling at that speed is excellent. He also has a great short ball delivery at pace. In 14 IPL matches, he took 17 wickets at an average of 27.1. In the IPL 2022, he clocked the fastest delivery of 157 kmph. Umran Malik bowled most of his overs in the middle overs during this year’s IPL. He is taking a wicket in every 16.5 balls at an economy rate of 8.21. As a front bowler in the Power Play, Umran Malik is less effective. He can be devastating if India keeps him to bowl in the middle order during the T20 World Cup.
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