Pacers remained in demand in the Indian Premier League, especially with the introduction of the impact player rule. This was proven right by the fact that in the list of the top five highest wicket-takers among the uncapped Indian players, all five turned out to be pacers.
Harshit Rana
Tushar Deshpande
Chennai Super Kings makes a useful player out of an average one and Tushar Deshpande is one of such stories. Much before him, the likes of Deepak Chahar, Mohit Sharma and Shardul Thakur are a few names who went on to represent India after doing tremendously well at this franchise. For the past two seasons, Deshpande has shown the same kinds of improvement, In this season too, he took 17 wickets in just 13 games at an average of 24.94 and an economy rate of below nine, which is the best among Indian uncapped bowlers with more than 10 wickets.
Yash Dayal
Yash Thakur
Another Yash on the list is Yash Thakur. The Vidarbha bowler came to the reckoning when he took a five-wicket haul while playing for Lucknow Super Giants against the Gujarat Titans. However, it so happened that the right-arm pacer could play only 10 games this season and he took 11 wickets in them.
Vaibhav Arora
Top-five wicket-takers among uncapped Indian bowlers in IPL 2024
PLAYER |
MAT |
OV |
RUNS |
WKTS |
BBI |
AVG |
ECON |
SR |
4W |
5W |
Harshit Rana KKR |
13 |
42.1 |
383 |
19 |
24/03/24 |
20.15 |
9.08 |
13.31 |
0 |
0 |
Tushar Deshpande CSK |
13 |
48 |
424 |
17 |
27/04/24 |
24.94 |
8.83 |
16.94 |
1 |
0 |
Yash Dayal RCB |
14 |
50.1 |
459 |
15 |
20/03/24 |
30.6 |
9.14 |
20.06 |
0 |
0 |
Yash Thakur LSG |
10 |
35.3 |
402 |
11 |
30/05/24 |
36.54 |
11.32 |
19.36 |
0 |
1 |
Vaibhav Arora KKR |
10 |
27 |
252 |
11 |
27/03/24 |
25.09 |
9.2 |
16.36 |
0 |
0 |
First Published: May 26 2024 | 10:31 AM IST