Evin Lewis Names His All-Time T20I Playing XI; MS Dhoni To Lead

Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) player Evin Lewis has picked his all-time T20I playing XI in a recent video that has been released on the official Twitter handle of the franchise. Lewis chose Chris Gayle and Rohit Sharma as the openers of his all-time T20I XI. Both Sharma and Gayle have a total of 4743 runs in T20Is and have 6 centuries together as well.

India captain Virat Kohli will bat at No.3, whereas the No.4 spot will be grabbed by the veteran AB de Villiers. While Kohli is the leading run-scorer in the T20I format with a whopping 3216 runs, de Villiers has 1672 runs in his name which came at a strike rate of over 135 as well.

Most 50+ scores while chasing in T20Is

18: Virat Kohli
13: David Warner*
10: Rohit Sharma
09: Martin Guptill#AUSvSL

— ComeOn Cricket 🏏🇮🇳 (@ComeOnCricket) October 28, 2021

Meanwhile, he chose West Indies’ Kieron Pollard for the No.5 spot whereas former Indian captain and current Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper MS Dhoni will be the wicket-keeper cum captain of Evin Lewis’ team as well. Notably, Dhoni led the team to the T20 World Cup title in 2007 as well.

Evin Lewis also selected India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and Andre Russell in his T20I XI team. Jadeja has been in sublime form in recent times both with the bat and the ball and he is considered as one of the best fielders in world cricket as well.

Andre Russell has so far scored 721 runs for the West Indies in 64 T20Is at a brilliant strike rate of 155.39. The three bowlers whom Evin Lewis chose in his all-time T20I XI are Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, and Mitchell Starc.

Spoiler: MS Dhoni as (C) & (WK) for Evin in his all-time T20I XI. 😁#HallaBol | #RoyalsFamily | @T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/r7mIsDICXW

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) October 29, 2021

While experienced spinner Rashid Khan is the 4th highest wicket-taker in T20Is with 99 wickets in just 52 matches at an average of 12.21, India speedster Jasprit Bumrah has played 51 T20I matches so far and has scalped 59 wickets as well. And, Australian left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc has taken 55 wickets in T20I cricket as well.

Evin Lewis’ all-time T20I XI: Chris Gayle, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Kieron Pollard, MS Dhoni (c and wk), Andre Russell, Ravindra Jadeja, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Starc

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