IPL Week 4 Top Performer: Imran Tahir

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    • Publish Date: May 5 2017 11:36AM
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IPL Week 4 Top Performer: Imran Tahir

As the halfway stage of IPL 2017 rolled over, week four of the tournament (April 27-May 3) saw a stunning spike in form from a team that had threatened to unravel not so long ago. With three wins in a row, Rising Pune Supergiant transformed from a mid-rung team doing just enough to stay out of the lower half of the points table, to jumping to third on the leaderboard. 


Channeling this exciting passage for the Pune-based franchise were an assortment of players: Steven Smith, Rahul Tripathi and Manoj Tiwary with clutch innings, New Zealand tearaway Lockie Ferguson with one stunning display (4-1-7-2) before he was benched, Jaydev Unadkat with some fine death-overs bowling, Imran Tahir with seven wickets and Ben Stokes, who marked his return to the playing XI with a maiden T20 century, 103 not out off 63 balls to deliver a final-over win over Gujarat Lions.



But if you were to look at RPS' success and what has been a constant to each of their three wins over the past seven days, one man stands out - Tahir. The top-ranked bowler in T20Is, South Africa's Tahir is second only to Bhuvneshwar Kumar (21) with 17 wickets in IPL 2017. In the past week, as RPS won three out of three, his bowling has fetched him seven wickets at an economy rate of 6.75. Of Tahir's seven wickets, five have been proper batsmen.


During the 61-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore, Tahir ran through the lower order with the scalps of Pawan Negi, Adam Milne and Samuel Badree as the visitors crashed to 96 all out. In those four overs, he bowled 12 dot balls - which is two full overs of deliveries not scored off. Against Gujarat Lions, who were beaten with one ball left, Tahir's figures were 3/27 in four overs, his wickets being Ishan Kishan, Aaron Finch and Dwayne Smith as the opposition slipped from 55 without loss in 5.5 overs to 94/4 after ten.

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Ayushi Pandey LILAVATI BAI PODAR (A)-SCRUZ

Compared to last year, the Rising Pune Supergiant have performed very well. My favourite player from the team is the emerging player Rahul Tripathi. His stellar innings of 93 got everybody to recognise him as a talented player. Imran Tahir, as mentioned above, is having a successful franchise. Currently, he is the highest wicket taker after Bhuvneshwar Kumar. However, the big guns like Steve Smith and Ajinkya Rahane are yet to fire.

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