I have the opposite reaction! Why do they still persist with the auction? Other than it being an obvious money generating exercise?
Didn't they have this thing where they used to freeze the teams for a few years? Then the auction would be released and emerging players. Or have I made that up?
I don't think the freezing thing has happened. The auction is held annually. Or, maybe am blacking out if it happened since I have generally become disillusioned with the IPL over the years.
I think the repeated auctions in itself is a bad idea and doesn't help with building franchise identity - but I just like seeing how teams go from the ground up.
Yeah I think I've just got confused with the retaining players process which apparently still exists but is not widely used outside of the big Indian players.
Considering that the players themselves set their base price, does the auctioning amount go to the player? Or, the player just gets a contract and the winning bid amount goes to the IPL?
I think a franchise can retain up to 5 players, but each player costs them a base price, which gets reduced from their budget. Each team has the same fixed budget for the auction, so they need to be very careful about who to retain.
Player, but it's just their salary cost rather than what they're actually paid. E.g. Virat was/is paid more by RCB than is taken out of their budget
Changes every year, this year I think it's 2 retained and 2 rights to match.
Cheers! Forgot about the rights to match thing. Complicating the auction process just to have something different.
Stokes and Archer in the same team
What Rashid Khan did previously helping his hype.
Just saw some youtube highlights of him bowling. Looks like a Mendis type of bowler - never been a fan of those bowlers.
He destroyed Newzealand U19 the other day in those conditions at the U19 world cup.
Apart from the overseas batsmen and Raina, that still doesn't look like an impressive batting lineup tbh. That spinning options are world class though. Harbhajan is very good in IPL. Personally found it staggering that CSK didn't go for Sundar. Very, very talented and local lad too.
Sundar surprised me, but I think they made mistakes earlier in the auction(Jadhav) that made some purchases seem superfluous.
I think Lynn certainly is that 1 top player in batting to be honest. They have also got Shubman Gill who's better than Shaw at limited over level and will be in our first team within the next three years. They've made a very smart buy in Johnson too.
Disagree. Maxwell, Morris and Rabada are all excellent buys. Munro has the potential to be the bargain of the tournament.
Agree on Munro and Morris. Maxwell is just a gamble. Remains to be seen if Rabada can be an effective T20 bowler.
There's question marks if he will even be available at all with his court case hanging over his head, but even if he is all the test players are coming back two weeks early.
I think every 3 years
Where's our (KKR) captain, Gambhir gone?
Delhi Daredevils.
FFS - feel so alienated. Can't handle the lack of continuity tbh.
Kohli, ABD, De Kock, McCullum then with domestic players like Vohra, Mandeep is a decent attack.
