Mayank Markande

One of those true blue IPL products, Mayank Markande is a young leg-spinner, with a googly that's good enough to trick the best in the business. He started off as a medium pacer, but his coach on spotting his small frame and a good slower one from the back of his hand, convinced him to switch to leg-spin in his teens.

He made his List A and T20 debuts in the 2018 domestic season for Punjab as a 20-year-old and played a handful of matches. In what is a testimony to Mumbai Indians' scouting team, Markande was picked up from nowhere in the 2018 auction for 20 lakhs after he impressed the think tank in the pre-auction trials. He won over the captain's confidence as well in the nets and was thrown into the deep sea straightaway as Mumbai chose to field him in their starting eleven over bigger names.

In what would perhaps be the biggest moment in his life, Mayank trapped MS Dhoni LBW with a sharp googly which the senior pro didn't read to get his first IPL wicket. He followed it up with a four-fer against Sunrisers Hyderabad and vital wickets against most teams in the first half of the league - leading to him having the purple cap for a significant amount of time.