The IPL 2024 season is less than three weeks away and the fans are buzzing in excitement, even though there are two Test series going on in different parts of the world.
The tournament will kick-start on March 22 with defending champions CSK hosting RCB, before the much-awaited clash between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans takes place in Ahmedabad the next night.
The IPl 2024 auction in December in Dubai gave the teams to bolster their squads and, most importantly, strengthen their death-bowling attack, something that is always influential in a team winning the title or not.
Here are the 3 best death fast bowlers in IPL 2024:
Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah is not only the best death bowler in the world, he is arguably the best fast bowler in the world, in any format and across formats. The Mumbai Indians spearhead sadly missed last year’s tournament due to a back injury, but is ready to roar once again in the blue colors of the Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024.
Bumrah has taken 145 wickets in 120 IPL matches. Bumrah’s death-overs economy in his last IPL season, in 2022, and before that it was 7.59 in 2021. He has pinpoint yorkers and multiple variations up his sleeve that he regularly displays in the death-overs phase.
Mitchell Starc
Mitchell Starc is set to make his comeback in the IPL after 9 years. Due to injuries and rest for workload management, Starc remained away from the IPL since his stint with RCB in 2014 and 2015 when he picked 34 wickets.
However, Starc’s stocks have only increased since then as KKR shelled out INR 24.75 crore in the IPL 2024 auction for the left-armer Aussie speedster. The 34-year-old Aussie fast bowler is a two-time ODI World Cup winner, one-time T20 World Cup winner, and a WTC Final winner, and played crucial roles in all those wins.
His left-arm angle makes his swinging and reverse-swinging deliveries among the most lethal ones in world cricket. Apart from that, Starc has deadly yorkers like Bumrah, making him one of the best in the last phase of an innings.
Arshdeep Singh
Arshdeep Singh led India’s bowling attack at the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia and was brilliant. He has, over the past two seasons, been simply sensational in T20 cricket, and has become the best young death overs Indian bowler. Not only does Arshdeep have the variations, but also he can bowl yorkers at will. Arshdeep has improve so much in death overs that he even outshined senior Punjab Kings teammate Kagiso Rabada in last two seasons. He has 45 wickets in his last three seasons.
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