Also read: Mitchell McClenaghan ignored Mitchell Starc, Arshdeep Singh and became the greatest left arm fast bowler of IPL<\/strong><\/p>\nPandya scored 225 runs in 15 matches and took 13 wickets. Reddy scored 302 runs in 13 innings and took 8 wickets, while Narayan took 15 wickets in 13 matches. When it came to the bowling attack, Karthik went with the three most successful fast bowlers of IPL 2026.<\/p>\n
Murali Karthik’s bowling attack was led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar<\/h2>\n
Experienced swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar was selected as the pace bowler by Karthik after another impressive season with RCB. Bhuvneshwar has so far taken 26 wickets in 15 matches at an excellent strike rate of 8. He was also joined by Rajasthan Royals fast bowler Joffra Archer, who troubled the batsmen throughout the season and took 25 wickets in 16 matches. He also scored 64 runs for RR.<\/p>\n
Current Purple Cap holder Kagiso Rabada completed the bowling attack of the former Indian spinner. The GT fast bowler once again proved why he remains one of the most dangerous fast bowlers in T20 cricket by taking 28 wickets in 16 matches at an impressive economy rate of 9.44.<\/p>\n
However, the biggest surprise was the omission of Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill, who has been brilliant with the bat and leads his team with 722 runs in 16 matches.<\/p>\n
Murali Karthik’s IPL 2026 team of the tournament: <\/strong>Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Impact Player), Sai Sudarshan, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Rajat Patidar, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Krunal Pandya, Sunil Narine, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jofra Archer and Kagiso Rabada.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"table of contents Hours before the IPL 2026 final between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on May 31, former India spinner and broadcaster Murali Karthik has revealed his team of the tournament on Cricbuzz, and his selection has surprised many. Many expected names made it to Karthik’s team of the tournament, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2452,8714,12647,43,14031,13227,3268,8139],"class_list":["post-165244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-gill","tag-ipl","tag-kkr","tag-picks","tag-shubman","tag-spinner","tag-team","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165246,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165244\/revisions\/165246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}