This time in 2016 Chris Morris was less than half the bowler he has become for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In the tournament’s 2016 edition Morris had five scalps after bowling in six games. After half a dozen stints with the ball in 2017 he has 12. That puts him joint-second among wicket-takers — level with Mitchell McClenaghan and four behind Bhuv Kumar. Morris’s economy rate of 6.90 pegs him 10th among bowlers who have played more than one game in the 2017 IPL. He and Kumar are the only bowlers who feature three times on the list of the 25 best performances. Morris is grabbing even bigger headlines with the bat despite having scored 43 fewer runs compared to the same stage of the 2016 IPL. His highlight in 2016 was the 82 not out he made off 32 balls that took Delhi from 16/3 and 57/4 to within a run of overhauling the Gujarat Lions’ 172/6. That earned Morris modern cricket’s rarest honour — being named man of the match despite being in the losing tea...
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