IPL 2016

[prath92]

The 9th edition of the Indian Premier League is going to start on 9th April 2016

Fixtures

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2016/content/series/968923.html?template=fixtures

Squads

1. Sunrisers Hyd

David Warner (c) (overseas)
Eoin Morgan (overseas)
Kane Williamson (Overseas)
Shikhar Dhawan
Tirumalasetti Suman
Ricky Bhui
Moises Henriques (Overseas)
Karn Sharma
Yuvraj Singh
Bipul Sharma
Deepak Hooda
Ben Cutting (overseas)
Vijay Shankar
Naman Ojha
Aditya Tare
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Trent Boult (Overseas)
Siddarth Kaul
Ashish Nehra
Barinder Sran
Abhimanyu Mithun
Mustafizur Rahman (overseas)

Coach: Tom Moody

2. Rising Pune Supergiants

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c)
Ajinkya Rahane
Faf du Plessis (Overseas)
Kevin Pietersen (Overseas)
Steve Smith (Overseas)
Saurabh Tiwary
Irfan Pathan
Mitchell Marsh (Overseas)
Thisara Perera (Overseas)
Baba Aparajith
Ankit Sharma
Rajat Bhatia
Albie Morkel (Overseas)
Ankush Bains
Peter Handscomb (Overseas)
Ishant Sharma
Ravichandran Ashwin
R. P. Singh
Ashok Dinda
Scott Boland (Overseas)
Ishwar Pandey
Deepak Chahar
Jaskaran Singh
Murugan Ashwin
Adam Zampa (overseas)
A- Usman Khawaja (overseas)
A- George Bailey (overseas)

Coach : Stephen Fleming

3. Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma (c)
Kieron Pollard (vc) (overseas)
Siddhesh Lad
Ambati Rayudu
Unmukt Chand
Lendl Simmons (overseas)
Nitish Rana
Shreyas Gopal
Corey Anderson (overseas)
Hardik Pandya
Krunal Pandya
Deepak Punia
Parthiv Patel
Jos Buttler (overseas)
Jitesh Sharma
Harbhajan Singh
Jasprit Bumrah
Jagadeesha Suchith
Vinay Kumar
Mitchell McClenaghan (overseas)
Marchant de Lange (overseas)
Lasith Malinga (overseas)
Akshay Wakhare
Tim Southee (overseas)
Nathu Singh
Kishore Kamath
A- Martin Guptill (Overseas)
A- Jerome Taylor (Overseas)

Coach: Ricky Ponting

4. Gujarat Lions

Suresh Raina (c)
Aaron Finch (Overseas)
Paras Dogra
Umang Sharma
Jaydev Shah
Akshdeep Nath
Ravindra Jadeja
Dwayne Bravo (Overseas)
James Faulkner (Overseas)
Dwayne Smith (Overseas)
Brendon McCullum (Overseas)
Dinesh Karthik
Eklavya Dwivedi
Ishan Kishan
Dale Steyn (Overseas)
Praveen Kumar
Dhawal Kulkarni
Andrew Tye (Overseas)
Pravin Tambe
Pradeep Sangwan
Sarabjit Ladda
Shadab Jakati
Amit Mishra
Shivil Kaushik

Coach : Brad Hodge

5. Kings XI Punjab

David Miller (c) (overseas)
Murali Vijay
Shaun Marsh (overseas)
Gurkeerat Singh
Manan Vohra
Nikhil Naik
Armaan Jaffer
Rishi Dhawan
Axar Patel
Glenn Maxwell (overseas)
Farhaan Behardien (overseas)
Marcus Stoinis (overseas)
Pardeep Sahu
Wriddhiman Saha
Mitchell Johnson (overseas)
Shardul Thakur
Anureet Singh
Sandeep Sharma
Mohit Sharma
Kyle Abbott (overseas)
KC Cariappa
Swapnil Singh
A- Hashim Amla (overseas)

Coach: Sanjay Bangar

6. Kolkata Knightriders

Gautam Gambhir (c)
Manish Pandey
Robin Uthappa
Chris Lynn (overseas)
Suryakumar Yadav
Colin Munro (overseas)
Andre Russell (overseas)
Yusuf Pathan
Shakib Al Hasan (overseas)
John Hastings (overseas)
Jason Holder (overseas)
Rajagopal Sathish
Manan Sharma
Sheldon Jackson
Kuldeep Yadav
Umesh Yadav
Piyush Chawla
Brad Hogg (overseas)
Morne Morkel (overseas)
Sunil Narine (overseas)
Jaydev Unadkat
Ankit Rajpoot

Coach : Jacques Kallis

7. Delhi Daredevils


Zaheer Khan (c)
Mayank Agarwal
JP Duminy (overseas)
Shreyas Iyer
Karun Nair
Jayant Yadav
Chris Morris (overseas)
Pawan Negi
Akhil Herwadkar
Mahipal Lomror
Quinton de Kock (overseas)
Sanju Samson
Rishabh Pant
Sam Billings (overseas)
Amit Mishra
Mohammed Shami
Nathan Coulter-Nile (overseas)
Gurinder Sandhu (overseas)
Shahbaz Nadeem
Imran Tahir (overseas)
Carlos Brathwaite (overseas)
Joel Paris (overseas)
Pawan Suyal
Chama Milind
Khaleel Ahmed

Coach : Paddy Upton

8. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Virat Kohli (c)
Abu Nechim Ahmed
Harshal Patel
Kedar Jadhav
Mandeep Hardev Singh
Sarfaraz Naushad Khan
Sreenath Arvind
Varun Aaron
Yuzvendra Singh Chahal
AB de Villers (Overseas)
Adam Milne (Overseas)
Chris Gayle (Overseas)
David Wiese (Overseas)
Mitchell Starc (Overseas)
Vikas Tokas
Kane Richardon (Overseas)
Akshay Karnewar
Praveen Dubey
Iqbal Abdulla
Travis Head (Overseas)
Stuart Binny
Samuel Badree (Overseas)
A- Tabrais Shamsi (Overseas)
A- Chris Jordan (Overseas)

Coach: Daniel Vettori

 

[Samid]

Rising Pune Supergiants. What a name

RCB have a shit team as usual. They should get rid of AB or Gayle and buy some decent spinners.

 

[KM]

Rooting for Delhi because they've a good number of young Indians plus Dravid is their "mentor".

 

[Neelu]

Rising Pune Supergiants

 

[Varun]

Will Narine be playing?

 

[anant]

Supported KKR in previous editions because of Ten Doeschate....have no idea who to root for this time

 

[The Man Himself]

Either Mumbai Indians or Rising Pune Supergiants (lol) for me.

 

[prath92]

Rooting for Delhi because they've a good number of young Indians plus Dravid is their "mentor".

nothing to do with you living in and around Delhi then eh?

 

[prath92]

Team Pune was named so because the owner's name in Rama Prasad Sanjay Goenka, and wanted RPSG in the name too. Weird fetishes.

Their team is very strong on paper. Too bad KP wont get a game. They have Du Plessis and Steven Smith as overseas batsmen, both of whom are better

 

[KM]

nothing to do with you living in and around Delhi then eh?

Nah don't usually support any team apart from Rajasthan Royals for the same reason/

 

[Moonred]

Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo.

 

[Nighteyes]

RCB's top 4 is likely to be

Gayle
Watson
Kohli
ABD

Plus that young kid who looks a cracking player. It's a pity Kohli and ABD are ok at best in the IPL otherwise that's a ridiculous top 4

 

[Moby]

RCB's top 4 is likely to be

Gayle
Watson
Kohli
ABD

Plus that young kid who looks a cracking player. It's a pity Kohli and ABD are ok at best in the IPL otherwise that's a ridiculous top 4

Insane. Is the 4 foreigner rule still in place?

 

[Varun]

RCB's top 4 is likely to be

Gayle
Watson
Kohli
ABD

Plus that young kid who looks a cracking player. It's a pity Kohli and ABD are ok at best in the IPL otherwise that's a ridiculous top 4

Kohli is a different beast now to what he was a year back, he has perfected the format. ABD is a bit overrated in this format but still an insane player.

 

[Nighteyes]

Insane. Is the 4 foreigner rule still in place?

Yep. If Starc is unfit RCB will be fecked again bowling wise. Chahal is good but after it's down to filth like that Varun Aaron and Binny.

 

[NinjaFletch]

Team Pune was named so because the owner's name in Rama Prasad Sanjay Goenka, and wanted RPSG in the name too. Weird fetishes.

Their team is very strong on paper. Too bad KP wont get a game. They have Du Plessis and Steven Smith as overseas batsmen, both of whom are better

Steven smith is not a better T20 bat than KP, not even close.

 

[Nighteyes]

Kohli is a different beast now to what he was a year back, he has perfected the format. ABD is a bit overrated in this format but still an insane player.

Hopefully but he looks half the player in the IPL.

 

[Varun]

Steven smith is not a better T20 bat than KP, not even close.

Agreed, different leagues really.

Hopefully but he looks half the player in the IPL.

He will rip it apart this year imo

 

[prath92]

Steven smith is not a better T20 bat than KP, not even close.

KP has been poor in IPL though. And Smith has been good for RR. Plus KP is 35. But in fairness he had a good BBL

Edit - talking about last edition.

 

[Samid]

Steve fecking Smith better than KP in T20?! What am I reading here?

Didn't expect this from you Prath, you seem to know your T20.

 

[Varun]

Steve fecking Smith better than KP in T20?! What am I reading here?

Didn't expect this from you Prath, you seem to know your T20.

Read this @prath92 and switch your vote to me ffs.

 

[Samid]

Read this @prath92 and switch your vote to me ffs.

You don't need more votes you greedy cnut

 

[Varun]

You don't need more votes you greedy cnut

Oi, there was a in there.

 

[NinjaFletch]

KP has been poor in IPL though. And Smith has been good for RR. Plus KP is 35. But in fairness he had a good BBL

Edit - talking about last edition.

In the IPL

Steve Smith = 2 50s Ave 34 SR 131 46 matches 961 runs
KP = 1 100, 2 50s Ave 37 SR 137 32 matches 928 runs

Steve Smith was probably better in the last IPL caus KP didn't play a game

 

[anant]

KP has been poor in IPL though. And Smith has been good for RR. Plus KP is 35. But in fairness he had a good BBL

Edit - talking about last edition.

I have Smith in my team, but still you didn't vote for me

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Looking forward to watch Iyer for DD. He's been sensational in domestic cricket. Should have been picked for the WT20.

 

[prath92]

In the IPL

Steve Smith = 2 50s Ave 34 SR 131 46 matches 961 runs
KP = 1 100, 2 50s Ave 37 SR 137 32 matches 928 runs

Steve Smith was probably better in the last IPL caus KP didn't play a game

oh wait he was delhi captain in 2014. Last year he left to play cnuty right? Holy crap, im getting old. KP was good for early RCB (the only player I liked in that team then). I want him to start too for what its worth - I dont like Smith and wish he played for RCB, the team I hate, but Smith and Faf were selected in the initial draft so I think Dhoni rates him highly .

Steve fecking Smith better than KP in T20?! What am I reading here?

Didn't expect this from you Prath, you seem to know your T20.

Lol. Thanks for the insult and compliment in the same post

 

[NinjaFletch]

oh wait he was delhi captain in 2014. Last year he left to play cnuty right? Holy crap, im getting old. KP was good for early RCB (the only player I liked in that team then). I want him to start too for what its worth - I dont like Smith and wish he played for RCB, the team I hate, but Smith and Faf were selected in the initial draft so I think Dhoni rates him highly .



Lol. Thanks for the insult and compliment in the same post

Yeah, was supposed to play for SRH but left to play Country Cricket before the tournament started and then got injured. Also missed the whole 2013 season through injury and I vaguely recall him missing 2011 for some reason too. Gets screwed over a bit because he's English I think, which has meant even when he was available he's rarely been able to play a full season.

Anyway, am I the only one that thinks the IPL this season feels a little bit after the lord mayor's showy? Two of the better teams taken apart, and following on the heels of the WT20.

 

[prath92]

Yeah, was supposed to play for SRH but left to play Country Cricket before the tournament started and then got injured. Also missed the whole 2013 season through injury and I vaguely recall him missing 2011 for some reason too. Gets screwed over a bit because he's English I think, which has meant even when he was available he's rarely been able to play a full season.

Anyway, am I the only one that thinks the IPL this season feels a little bit after the lord mayor's showy? Two of the better teams taken apart, and following on the heels of the WT20.

This is actually true. Only thing is the 4 foreigners rule makes it imperative to play Indian players so teams like RCB are going to be tested.

 

[paulscholes18]

MI have a very strong overseas pool of players, with Pollard and Malinga automatic starters for them be hard for Buttler to nail down a starting place

 

[Samid]

I fancy Delhi, they've got the best finishers.

 

[crappycraperson]

I fancy Delhi, they've got the best finishers.

Who? Very average squad.

 

[sport2793]

Who? Very average squad.

I guess you didn't watch the T20 final...Delhi have Braithwaite.

 

[KM]

I guess you didn't watch the T20 final...Delhi have Braithwaite.

You Indian?

Hoping to see Iyer perform well. He's excellent.

 

[prath92]

Nah i think Delhi has some excellent young players. Karun Nair, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer Mayank Agarwal and all. Though yes, they seem to have less quality batsmen beide this. More of all rounders.

 

[Varun]

Who? Very average squad.

Agreed

 

[The Man Himself]

Move over WT20, it is time for 'Ek India, happy wala'

 

[Mani]

With no CSK in competition, have no idea on whom to support.

 

[Varun]

With no CSK in competition, have no idea on whom to support.

Korbo lorbo jeetbo re.

I find it impossible to support a particular team either tbh, that makes the whole thing more enjoyable. Supported KKR and MI due to Dada and Sachin but with them gone, it isn't close to being the same.

 

[Mani]

Korbo lorbo jeetbo re.

I find it impossible to support a particular team either tbh, that makes the whole thing more enjoyable. Supported KKR and MI due to Dada and Sachin but with them gone, it isn't close to being the same.

That's true, enjoy all big hits /Wkts and stay neutral.