IPL 2020: 6 Most Destructive Left-Hand Batsmen

There is a peculiar elegance that one associates with left-handed batsmen, especially when they so accurately carry out that cover drive that carves through the fielder on the offside very effortlessly. However, T20 cricket demands the batsmen to have a certain level of brute force within their gameplay, which allows them to bag boundaries regularly and keep the scoring rate high over the course of the innings. Now when these two attributes combine, it results in providing us with destructive left-handed batsmen; the cricketers who rake of grace and some sense of savagery together. Accordingly, here we look upon six of the similar sort of hard-hitting left-handed batsmen who will delight the fans with their presence in the 13^th edition of the Indian Premier League.

6. David Warner:

David Warner has arguably propelled to become the best ever batsman to ply his trade in the Indian Premier League. He had to miss the 2018 edition of the tournament due to the ball-tampering suspension that he was serving back then.

However, the southpaw made an excellent comeback last time around when he amassed 692 runs from merely 12 innings, which included a century and eight half-centuries.

Warner thrives upon the batting-friendly tracks that are served on the platter during the IPL and his incredible endurance and tenacity mean that the man keeps on batting for a major length of the innings to carve his impact more authoritatively.

He is equally dominant against both the pacers and the spinners, but most importantly has the skillset to alter his gameplay and rotate the strike in the middle overs to shift gears as the situation of the game demands at that point in time.

5. Shivam Dube:

Shivam Dube was bought for a hefty sum of 5 crores by the RCB ahead of the auctions of the 12^th season. Though Dube wasn’t given an adequate amount of opportunities to prove his display, he certainly possesses the ability to seamlessly slot into the T20 mold of batting style and technique.

He is someone who is extremely menacing and clinical when the ball lands in his hitting arc, which is generally the area ranging from long-on to deep square-leg or long-leg.

In this region, Dube uses his tremendous hitting strength to ensure that the ball clears the boundary rope. Otherwise, he needs to gradually improve on his gameplay and the signals for it were prevalent during the five-match long T20I series in New Zealand where he delivering underwhelming results.

However, if Virat Kohli sustains and manages to give Shivam Dube a course of games to play in a slightly higher batting position, he can reap greater dividends in most certainties.

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