Easwaran (30) is primarily considered a red-ball specialist, but this year he played a couple of stellar knocks in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT). In seven SMAT innings, he scored 266 runs at an average of 44.33 with a strike rate of 152. Against Punjab, he hammered a brilliant century (130), including eight sixes, and against Services, he scored a half-century (58). Easwaran has never played in the IPL before.
