The much-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 is all set to begin from September 19 in the Uni🃏ted Arab Emirates (UAE). Originally, the 13th edition o🐭f the lucrative league was supposed to kick off from March 29, but due to deadly COVID-19, the exciting tournament got postponed.
Several fans thought the fate of this year’s T20 league was done and dusted, but the Sourav Ganguly-led Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) didn’t let that happen. With the postponement of the T20 World Cup, IPL 13 got a new window as BCCI shifted the league to UAE, due to the significant spread of the coronavirus in India.
Now as the dates are out for the cash-rich league, experts, as well as the admirers of the capti🐈vating game, have started making predictions regarding who would win the title of IPL 13, or who would rule the season🐽 with his performance.
Former Australian leg-spinner, Brad Hogg has claimed Mumbai Indians (MI) and Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as the top two title contenders in the upcoming edition of IPL. Furthermore, he reckoned that MI all-rounder Hardik Pandya would earn the ‘Player of the Tournament’ award in the exciting competition.
“He (Hardik) is looking to get back into cricket after a long time off due to injury. He’s also got a baby on the way as well. I just think those things will give him extra energy and he will become a man of the tournament in the UAE,” said Hogg while speaking on his YouTube channel.
Meanwhile, Hardik would be desperate to prove his worth in IPL 2020 after a long break from int꧙ernational cricket. His last appearance for Team India came during the home✱ T20Is against South Africa, in September 2019.
In the previous edition of IPL, Hardik scored 402 runs at an impressive strike-rate of 191.42 and picked up 14 wickets at an average of 27.85 to help his 🦩side claim their fourth title.