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Wanted to see how is each team faring in batting at each of the batting positions from #1 to #11 and who is the strongest/weakest player at each position.

Few insights -

1. Marsh & P Arya have dominated No.1 position while Rahane has been the weakest

2. No. 2 is dominated totally by RR because of the 15 year old prodigy who leads in all 3 departments (runs, SR, boundaries). Gaikwad from CSK has performed the worst as expected at this position.

3. Ishan Kishan and Klassen have been superb for SRH at #3 and #4 while Suryakumar and N Pooran have been disastrous. Patidar has been great for RCB.

4. MI has experimented a lot with No. 5 and No. 6 but have been able to score good runs and boundaries between the likes of Pandya, Tilak, Rutherford and Will Jacks at those positions while Brevis, Tewatia have been poor

5. Mukul Chowdhury has emerged as kinda the best No. 7 batsman while Ramandeep (KKR) and Shahrukh Khan (GT) failed the most to create impact

6. Strike Rates of #6, #7 which are kind of finisher positions have been pretty underwhelming for most teams except for PBKS who has done well.

7. Jamie Overton has done great at No. 8 for CSK.

8. Bhuvi with most runs and boundaries at #9 (including the most important boundary maybe of this season, that six to Bawa).

Please share any other insights in the comments. Hope this was helpful ✌️ Who would be your IPL Playing XI or Top 7 basis this?

Mine would be

1. Abhishek Sharma

2. Vaibhav Suryavanshi

3. Ishan Kishan (wk)

4. R Patidar (could have kept Klassen but 4 overseas covered below)

5. Tilak Verma

6. Tim David (ov)

7. Shashank Singh/Mukul (prefer Shashank as he can bowl)

8. Krunal Pandya

9. J Overton (ov)

10. Bhuvi

11. Hazlewood (ov)

12. S Narine (ov)

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