@ErikaMorris79 Drop Rahane and Green. Let Narine captain.
Finn - Seifert- Angkrish top 3
Rinku - Rovman - Roy- Ramandeep in middle
Narine -Tyagi - Vaibhav - VC
Use Tripathi as a floating impact hitter against spin and pace
Swap Blessing - Rovman and Vaibhav-Tripathi on wkts with bounce
@ErikaMorris79 Honestly the salary purse is a fraction of the revenues the teams earn. So very little incentive for fiscal responsibility in mini auctions. The day the salaries move up to NBA/EPL revenue share percentage levels we will see owners push for better models than auction
@ErikaMorris79 Exactly. We saw that bowlers who get extra bounce or bowl deceptive spin can create small pockets of pressure on run rate. The teams that won the games were able to put together 4-5 overs of such stretches. The losers gave up control after 4-5 balls with poor support and fielding
@Adityakrsaha All stadiums in India treat audience equally poorly. Non existent parking facilities, poor ticketing experience, poor seating experience and hounded like refugees by security
@Akshay01shukla His skillset of pure batter 30/135 opener is useless for most IPL teams.
They can get a 20/145 batter in Indian domestic and/or a 30/125 guy to cover these reqmts.
To be a foreign opener in IPL you have to be elite level batter or at the very least a wkb to help save one slot.
@ErikaMorris79 To be fair where else is he gonna go? He's out of the ODI and T20I teams and unlikely to get a recall.
At RCB he's likely to play once Romario leaves and one good hit in the playoffs sets him up for first XI next year. This is more of pragmatism
@cricket_badger Ok. Noted its unfair.
In what equitable way could ICC have organized the event ensuring
1) Participation of India (thus not jeopardizing ICC event tv rights and viability)
2) India - Pak geopolitics wherein Ind govt wont permit team to visit Pak
@Psychadelick69 He's been diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Not the first time he's threatened others and himself. Hope they get him committed.