IPL 2014: Official Thread

[The_Reaper]

Bell will be picked up but he'd be lucky to get starts with teams. Unless Pune take him, they need all the batsmen they can get.

Didn't Pune get kicked out?

 

[GROTTO]

In general the consistently strong teams (Chennai and Mumbai) have been strong because of their core group of Indian players instead of their internationals.

Especially Chennai with - Dhoni, Raina, Ashwin and Jadeja in India thats a lethal combination. Then throw in Hussey, Bravo and du Plessis and you understand why they have a solid foundation.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Has anyone been able to find a full list of the players going up for auction? I saw a list of the capped players being auctioned but I always enjoy seeing some of the uncapped players who have put themselves up.

 

[Amazing Bombers]

Lol Dernbach in there it seems like every time i watch him he bowls pies.

 

[ioppolo]

Lol Dernbach in there it seems like every time i watch him he bowls pies.

Goes at over a run a ball in domestic List A cricket and 8.5 in domestic T20. Hack of the highest order.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Going to lock this thread for now; will have a separate thread tomorrow for the auction then will re-open this and update team lists.

 

[akkaps]

IPL may be moving to different country due to the Indian Elections. This was the same reason in 2009 when the IPL was played in South Africa.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2014/content/story/725533.html?CMP=chrome

 

[Carbine Chaos]

IPL may be moving to different country due to the Indian Elections. This was the same reason in 2009 when the IPL was played in South Africa.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2014/content/story/725533.html?CMP=chrome

I enjoyed the South Africa edition, some good pitches for the bowlers.

 

[akkaps]

I enjoyed the South Africa edition, some good pitches for the bowlers.

And Hyderabad actually one. Our only win.

 

[The_Reaper]

The IPL will be co hosted with the UAE

 

[akkaps]

The IPL will be co hosted with the UAE

Along with Bangladesh, and India. God damn Indian Elections.

 

[Cleavy]

good for the bookmakers, I guess...

 

[Carbine Chaos]

COMPLETED 2014 IPL SQUADS

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
Baba Aparajith, Ravi Ashwin, Samuel Badree (WI), Dwayne Bravo (WI), M. S. Dhoni, Faf du Plessis (SA), John Hastings (AUS), Matt Henry (NZ), Ben Hilfenhaus (AUS), Ravindra Jadeja, Mithun Manhas, Brendon McCullum (NZ), Ronit More, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Ishwar Pandey, Suresh Raina, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Dwayne Smith (WI)

DELHI DAREDEVILS
Mayank Agarwal, Nathan Coulter-Nile (AUS), Quinton de Kock (SA), Jean-Paul Duminy (SA), Jayant Yadav, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Siddarth Kaul, Milind Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jimmy Neesham (NZ), Wayne Parnell (SA), Kevin Pietersen (ENG), Mohammad Shami, HS Sharath, Rahul Sharma, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor (NZ), Manoj Tiwary, Saurabh Tiwary, Jaydev Unadkat, Murali Vijay

KINGS XI PUNJAB
Parvinder Awana, George Bailey (AUS), Laxmipathy Balaji, Rishi Dhawan, Beuran Hendricks (SA), Murali Karthik, Mitchell Johnson (AUS), Shaun Marsh (AUS), Glenn Maxwell (AUS), David Miller (SA), Akshar Patel, Thissara Perera (SL), Cheteshwar Pujara, Wridhhiman Saha, Virender Sehwag, Sandeep Sharma, Shivam Sharma, Anureet Singh, Gurkeerat Singh, Karanveer Singh, Mandeep Singh, Shardul Thakur, Manan Vohra

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Shakib Al-Hasan (BAN), Manvinder Bisla, Piyush Chawla, Pat Cummins (AUS), Debabrata Das, Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis (SA), Chris Lynn (AUS), R Vinay Kumar, Soyan Mondal, Morne Morkel (SA), Sunil Narine (WI), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell (WI), Veer Pratap Singh, Ryan ten Doeschate, Robin Uthappa, Kuldeep Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav

MUMBAI INDIANS
Corey Anderson (NZ), Jasprit Bumrah, Merchant de Lange (SA), Ben Dunk (AUS), CM Gautam, Shreyas Gopal, Josh Hazlewood (AUS), Mike Hussey (AUS), Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga (SL), Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Keiron Pollard (WI), Ambati Rayudu, Krishmar Santokie, Jalaj Saxena, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare, Apoorv Wankhade

RAJASTHAN ROYALS
Iqbal Abdullah, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Stuart Binny, Unmukt Chand, Kevon Cooper (WI), Ben Cutting (AUS), James Faulkner (AUS), Brad Hodge (AUS), Deepak Hooda, Dhawal Kulkarni, Vikramjit Malik, Amit Mishra, Abhishek Nayar, Karun Nair, Ajinkya Rahane, Kane Richardson (AUS), Sanju Samson, Anikit Sharma, Steven Smith (AUS), Tim Southee (NZ), Rahul Tewatia, Pravin Thambe, Shane Watson (AUS), Dishant Yagnik

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Varun Aaron, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers (SA), Ashok Dinda, Chris Gayle (WI), Shadab Jakati, Virat Kohli, Nic Maddinson (AUS), Tanmay Mishra, Albie Morkel (SA), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Abu Nechim, Parthiv Patel, Ravi Rampaul (WI), Sachin Rana, Yuvraj Singh, Mitchell Starc (AUS), Yogesh Takawale, Vijay Zol

SUNRISERS HYDRABAD
Ricky Bhui, Shikhar Dhawan, Aaron Finch (AUS), Moises Henriques (AUS), Jason Holder (WI), Manpreet Juneja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Naman Ojha, Prasanth Parameswaran, Irfan Pathan, Amit Paunikar, Lokesh Rahul, Y Venugopal Rao, Parvez Rasool, Ashish Reddy, Darren Sammy (WI), Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, Anirudha Srikkanth, Dale Steyn (SA), Brendan Taylor (ZIM), David Warner (AUS)

Added the final squads to the first page.

 

[akkaps]

My SunRisers best team:

D. Warner (AUS)
S. Dhawan
A. Finch (AUS)
N. Ojha +
M. Henriques
A. Reddy
D. Sammy (c)
I. Pathan
D. Steyn (RSA)
I. Sharma
A. Mishra

B. Kumar

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The best thing about the Delhi squad this season is that it is very hard to pick the best XI. Good depth, especially with our local players. I'd start with...

Murali Vijay
Mayank Agarwal
Kevin Pietersen (c)
Ross Taylor
Dinesh Karthik (+)
Manoj Tiwary/Saurabh Tiwary
James Neesham
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Rahul Sharma
Mohammad Shami
Jaydev Unadkat

That's a great middle order!

 

[akkaps]

The best thing about the Delhi squad this season is that it is very hard to pick the best XI. Good depth, especially with our local players. I'd start with...

Murali Vijay
Mayank Agarwal
Kevin Pietersen (c)
Ross Taylor
Dinesh Karthik (+)
Manoj Tiwary/Saurabh Tiwary
James Neesham
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Rahul Sharma
Mohammad Shami
Jaydev Unadkat

That's a great middle order!

Suggestions: Manoj over Saurabh, and bring Rahul Sharma higher up the order, he can bat quite well.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Suggestions: Manoj over Saurabh, and bring Rahul Sharma higher up the order, he can bat quite well.

I'd lean towards Manoj ahead because, from memory, he can bowl a bit and is a top fielder. Rahul can't bat ahead of Neesham or NCN (who has an average of 20 with SR of 120+ in T20s!)

 

[Torz]

Don't know much about Agarwal, but wouldn't Manoj open and Saurabh in the middle order?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Don't know much about Agarwal, but wouldn't Manoj open and Saurabh in the middle order?

As far as I remember Manoj is a middle order batsman. Agarwal opening is a must because he's a slogger type, and we'll need that to counter Vijay up the other end.

 

[akkaps]

IPL7 captains announced:

Chennai Super Kings
Captain: MS Dhoni
Vice: Suresh Raina

Delhi Daredevils
Captain: Kevin Pieterson (ENG)
Vice: Dinesh Karthik

Kings XI Punjab
Captain: George Bailey (AUS)
Vice: - 

Kolkata Knight Riders
Captain: Gautam Gambhir
Vice: -

Mumbai Indains
Captain: Rohit Sharma
Vice: - 

Rajasthan Royals:
Captain: Shane Watson (AUS)
Vice: -

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Captain: Virat Kohli
Vice: -

Sunrisers Hyderabad
Captain: Shikhar Dhawan
Vice: -

A few surprises in there, including Dhawan, Pieterson, and Rohit. Would have gone with Sammy (DC/SH), Manoj (DD), and Hussey (MI)

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Pietersen was always going to be DD captain, great choice.

 

[The_Reaper]

Might not be a league this year. Apparently CSK and maybe RR to be kicked out by the Supreme Court

 

[akkaps]

Might not be a league this year. Apparently CSK and maybe RR to be kicked out by the Supreme Court

Decisions that come out of a building that looks like a penis cannot be taken seriously.

But seriously. That would be a shame.

 

[The Speaker]

Decisions that come out of a building that looks like a penis cannot be taken seriously.

But seriously. That would be a shame.

Not as much of a shame as the IPL being rife with corruption.

 

[Pralaya]

Might not be a league this year. Apparently CSK and maybe RR to be kicked out by the Supreme Court

IPL 7 to go ahead as planed. Gavaskar to head BCCI and oversee IPL 7