Five Stars Who Can Light Up T20 World Cup 2020

It’s a team sport, Yes. Eleven will be playing against 11, but the team with more players outplaying their counterparts will, more often than, be coming out on top in the match and in the tournament as well.

But every team, irrespective of the sport, has that unique player, or players, who weighs more, whatever the parameter or the measuring stick to gauge a player’s worth and importance, than the rest of his teammates. Take, for example, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in football and Kawhi Leonard or Stephen Curry in Basketball. They are unique. Most valuable in their respective teams.

Same holds for cricket. There are at least one or two players in every team who will hog more limelight, more scrutiny from media and also from the opponents who will try to come up with every plan possible to mitigate that important player’s impact.

Here our take on the player who can light-up the T20 World Cup Down Under!

Jasprit Bumrah: They say it’s a batsman’s game. Yes, it is. Fans turn up in big numbers, fill up every section of the stadium to see the ball flying all over the park. But! But, bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Lasith Malinga have forced pundits, and also the fans, to change, or at least alter their view on that old adage. The new and the curated perception is now that “It’s Bowler’s game as well.” And Bumrah is like a Goldust, like a UFO, for that kind of bowler is a rarity. How often have you seen a player with the ball in his hands ruling the roost over the batsmen? It’s as rare as truth these days. And Bumrah will be key for Team India, perhaps the most vital cog in this team.

Chris Gayle: Pray to the Gods of cricket, hope that the scientists and doctors suck the life out of coronavirus, and pave the way for the T20 World Cup to go as planned, for this will be the first time that Gayle Storm will be hitting the lands of Australia since that infamous Mel McLaughlin interview. Gayle is 40 now, but he recently said that he is planning to play the shortest form of cricket till at least 45.

“Forty-five is a good number. Let’s talk at 45,” the big-hitting opener told cricbizz.com earlier this year. “I think that’s a good number and my first number. I just think I am on the slow side a bit.”