The season would kick off on 9th April with a clash between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians in Chennai. Here is the list of top performers of last season- First KL Rahul, the Orange Cap winner with 670 runs in 14 matches had an average of 55.83. Next is Shikhar Dhawan who even after playing 3 matches more than Rahul scored 618 runs and kept Delhi in form. David Warner, the key player who helped Orange Army’s run to the playoffs scored 548 runs but the team lost to Capital in Eliminator. Next, we have DC captain Shreyas Iyer who scored 519 runs and had a strike-rate of 123.27.
Others on the list are Ishan Kishan of MI, Quinton de Kock of MI. Suryakumar Yadav, Emerging Player of the Tournament winner RCB’s Devdutt Padikkal, RCB skipper Virat Kohli and Ab de Villiers were in powerful form last season and would be on the watchlist this year as well.