5 great all-rounders who could have played the IPL 1
Gary Sobers and Alan Knott, England v West Indies, 3rd Test, Lord's, August 1973. (Photo by Patrick Eagar/Patrick Eagar Collection via Getty Images)

Lance Klusener: 5 great all-rounders who could have played the IPL 2

The military man started his career as a No. 11 batsman and an express quick bowler. Klusener spent his childhood spent among the Zulu children on a sugar cane farm and three years in the army contributed to a straightforward approach to bowling: hit the batsman’ head if you can’t hit his stumps. He spent a couple of years bowling just  two lengths before a serious ankle injury in 1998 forced him to drop his pace and develop himself more ferocious bowler. In 1999 India, he made his debut against, and in the debut he announced his arrival as his match-winning figures of 8 for 64 at home side India at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

He showed his baseball like hitting in the 1999 World Cup that symbolised the tournament and heroism nearly took South Africa to the final.

However, after this World Cup Klusener’ form declined and he was dropped from England and Australia tour. In 2003, he made a comeback in the World Cup at home and selected for 2004 Sri Lanka tour.

Later he was a high-profile buy in the rebel Indian Cricket League where he played for Kolkata Tigers. In 2009, he retired from all form of cricket and entered into the coaching job.

He has a profile that says if he had born in the 1980s or 1990s his baseball like hitting could have enriched the IPL and T20 cricket.

Sudipta Biswas

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