Chahal, Bumrah, Dhoni headline TOI Sport’s T20I XI of 2017
From the six-hitting Evin Lewis via the consistent Babar Azam to a record-setting Yuzvendra Chahal, here are the top T20I players of the year. HIGHLIGHTS Three Indians Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal and MS Dhoni feature in the T20I XI West Indian Carlos Brathwaite is the captain of the XI Afghanistan spin prodigy Rashid Khan also makes the cut 1 Evin Lewis M 9 I 9 Runs 357 HS 125* Avg 44.62 SR 154.54 100x1 50x2 6x31 When you finish as the year's leading run-getter in T20Is, with a top score of 125 not out from 62 balls, you clearly have done a lot right. Lewis was inconsistent, as scores of 10, 3, 7, 26, 25 and 19 underline, but each time he crossed 50 West Indies won. His 51-ball 91 clinched a seven-wicket win over Pakistan, with West Indies down 0-2 and needing a win to stay alive; a 28-ball 51 set up victory over England during a disappointing tour; and that aforementioned century completed a chase of 191 with nine balls left, leaving India looking dazed. L...