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They have extended it to domestic spinner too.
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I think they heard don't buy openers.
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Ah yes CSK, let's not play Sai Kishore once when is with us and then try to buy him again.
Punjab doing the same successfully with Porel too. Hope he gets to be a regular this season.
Punjab doing the same successfully with Porel too. Hope he gets to be a regular this season.
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This year, SRH building Academy club not a IPL franchise...
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Missed the entire day. So who filled the quota of acting like a noob in the absence of Preity Zinta today?
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KM Asif another former CSK player getting by CSK again.
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To get the Ricky Bhui treatment?
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Lucknow looks decent on paper so far.
If KL can get his shot together captaincy wise the team does have the potential to go into top 4.
If KL can get his shot together captaincy wise the team does have the potential to go into top 4.
Both CSK and MI heavily underperformed today. But something tells me that they're playing the "slow and steady game". Mumbai a lot more than CSK, who tried going after quite a few other players that they could not end up getting. Mumbai as usual seems to have specific plans and the way their side is building up in terms of quality/age, still gives them enough time to end this auction the way they always do - AT THE TOP!!
CSK is a big soup, significant soup! The strategy of going after the same set of players who are almost past their expiry date was extremely annoying. Their adamance to move away from the past plan, especially when they so emphatically said that "they are going to rebuild for the future", reeked of hypocrisy. Unless they have a handful of extremely excellent buys tomorrow, they are going to end up with a squad thats going to continue being as vulnerable as it was these past 3 years and now they stare at a future where mega auctions could be done away with and it could get tougher to get good players.
CSK is a big soup, significant soup! The strategy of going after the same set of players who are almost past their expiry date was extremely annoying. Their adamance to move away from the past plan, especially when they so emphatically said that "they are going to rebuild for the future", reeked of hypocrisy. Unless they have a handful of extremely excellent buys tomorrow, they are going to end up with a squad thats going to continue being as vulnerable as it was these past 3 years and now they stare at a future where mega auctions could be done away with and it could get tougher to get good players.
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What OS players are left nine of the teams have bought more than 5.
Lots of it! Rassie Van Der Dussen, Odean Smith, Liam Livingstone, Eoin Morgan,, Evin Lewis, Alex Hales, Aiden Markram, Alzarri Joseph, etc.
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I think this year in IPL, more uncapped players get more matches to play...
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It amazes me how dumb some franchises can be. In a team of Mayank and Shikhar Dhawan, will it be better to pick Jonny Bairstow for a million US and play him out of position or get a reliable Steve Smith for base price and use him as a bullet proof jacket at 3?!
Why would you retain Mayank for 12 if you intend to bat him anywhere other than opener and why would you buy Dhawan who is in the twilight of his career for 8.5 when you intend to buy Bairstow for 7? I'm just amazed.
Similar by RR. I think they got caught in their own bluff with Paddikal. Unless they're intending to use Buttler as a finisher then one of those three openers are going to bat out of position.
But by far the harakiri of KKR bidding 10.5 crores for Nicholas Pooran with a balance purse of 20 crores with no India fast bowlers and one or two India batters is just mind numbing. I have been watching these auctions with hawk eyes for 15 years now and nothing has been more mind numbing than this. Absolute madness. And SRH getting him for 10.75 was the last bullet they had fired. One less from their side or one more from KKR would have been a sight to behold!
Why would you retain Mayank for 12 if you intend to bat him anywhere other than opener and why would you buy Dhawan who is in the twilight of his career for 8.5 when you intend to buy Bairstow for 7? I'm just amazed.
Similar by RR. I think they got caught in their own bluff with Paddikal. Unless they're intending to use Buttler as a finisher then one of those three openers are going to bat out of position.
But by far the harakiri of KKR bidding 10.5 crores for Nicholas Pooran with a balance purse of 20 crores with no India fast bowlers and one or two India batters is just mind numbing. I have been watching these auctions with hawk eyes for 15 years now and nothing has been more mind numbing than this. Absolute madness. And SRH getting him for 10.75 was the last bullet they had fired. One less from their side or one more from KKR would have been a sight to behold!
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England play Jonny Bairstow out of positionn. He is better than Steve Smith at 1-4 (probably 5-7), keeps wicket or is a gun fielder.
