IPL 2016 Thread

[Carbine Chaos]

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Captain: Virat Kohli
Coach: Daniel Vettori
Squad: Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, AB de Villiers, Mitchell Starc, David Wiese, S Aravind, Kane Richardson, Stuart Binny, Varun Aaron, Kedar Jadav, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, Samuel Badree, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Praveen Dubey, Abu Nechim, Vikramjeet Malik, Yuzvendra Chahal, Iqbal Abdulla, Akshay Karnewar, Vikas Tokas, Sachin Baby

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Captain: Gautam Gambhir
Coach: Trevor Bayliss
Squad: Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Yusuf Pathan, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan, Umesh Yadav, Manish Pandey, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Rajpoot, Chris Lynn, John Hastings, Jason Holder, Suryakumar Yadav, Andre Russell, Brad Hogg, Kuldeep Yadav, Colin Munro, R Satish, Sheldon Jackson, Manan Sharma

KINGS XI PUNJAB
Captain: David Miller
Coach: Sanjay Bangar
Squad: Mitchell Johnson, Mohit Sharma, Glenn Maxwell, Manan Vohra, M Vijay, Rishi Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, Shaun Marsh, Kyle Abbott, Gurkeerat Singh, Sandeep Sharma, KC Cariappa, Axar Patel, Marcus Stoinis, Nikhil Naik, Farhaan Behardien, Anureet Singh, Shardul Thakur, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Armaan Jaffer

DELHI DAREDEVILS
Captain: JP Duminy
Coach: N/A
Squad: Pawan Negi, Chris Morris, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mohammad Shami, Carlos Brathwaite, Sanju Samson, Karun Nair, Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra, Quinton de Kock, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Mayank Agarwal, Imran Tahir, Shahbaz Nadeem, Joel Paris, Sam Billings, Jayant Yadav, Pawan Suyal, Chama Milind, Pratyush Singh, Mahipal Lormor, Akhil Herwadkar, Khaleel Ahmed

MUMBAI INDIANS
Captain: Rohit Sharma
Coach: Ricky Ponting
Squad: Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Corey Anderson, Ambati Rayudu, Jos Buttler, Nathu Singh, Vinay Kumar, Tim Southee, Krunal Pandya, Parthiv Patel, Kishore Kamath, Jasprit Bumrah, Lendl Simmons, Unmukt Chand, M McClenaghan, Marchant de Lange, Shreyas Gopal, Siddhesh Lad, Akshay Wakhare, Nitish Rana, Hardik Pandya, J Suchith, Jitesh Sharma, Deepak Punia

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
Captain: David Warner
Coach: Tom Moody
Squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Bhuvi Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Trent Boult, Karn Sharma, Eoin Morgan, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Aditya Tare, Moises Henriques, KL Rahul, Parvez Rasool, Kane Williamson, Ben Cutting, Naman Ojha, Vijay Shankar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ashish Reddy, T Suman, Bipul Sharma, Ricky Bhui, Siddarth Kaul

RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS
Captain: MS Dhoni
Coach: Stephen Fleming
Squad: Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Steven Smith, Mitchell Marsh, M Ashwin, Faf du Plessis, Ishant Sharma, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Rajat Bhatia, Saurabh Tiwary, Albie Morkel, Ashok Dinda, Scott Boland, Adam Zampa, Peter Handscombe, RP Singh, Ishwar Pandey, Ankit Sharma, Ankush Bains, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar

GUJARAT LIONS
Captain: Suresh Raina
Coach: Brad Hodge
Squad: Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Dwayne Bravo, Praveen Kumar, Dwayne Smith, Dale Steyn, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Aaron Finch, Eklavya Dwivedi, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Shadab Jakati, Pravin Tambe, Jaydev Shah, Pradeep Sangwan, Akshdeep Nath, Paras Dogra, Umang Sharma, Amit Mishra, Shivil Kaushik, Sarabjit Ladda

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Decided to start this thread with the mindboggling news that Delhi have cut Travis Head, a bargain basement buy, just as he is getting his international colours/exposure and has been in ripping form in the tournament. If somebody could explain this piece of shit organisation to me, I'd love to hear it. Is tipped to now go for a fairly big price in the auction...

 

[Taylor]

Perhaps he said that he would be happy to sit out the competition if he wasn't going to get paid his value, so they cut him with a view to resigning him on more cash.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Perhaps he said that he would be happy to sit out the competition if he wasn't going to get paid his value, so they cut him with a view to resigning him on more cash.

Hmm, I doubt it. Doesn't seem like the kind of demand a developing player would make.

He was contracted, if he said something like that I'd just make him stay and see it out the rest of his current contract for chips. He performs, we'll give him more. Has to earn it first.

 

[Scotland]

Does Chris Lynn have a contract? I imagine he'd attract some interest after all the sixes (sorry, DLF maximums) he's belted in the BBL.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Does Chris Lynn have a contract? I imagine he'd attract some interest after all the sixes (sorry, DLF maximums) he's belted in the BBL.

He's a Knight Rider, from memory.

 

[Cudi]

The new teams logo and name is so so bad.

 

[ioppolo]

The new teams logo and name is so so bad.

It's a Pink Golden Snitch.

 

[Zach Package]

Bloke who bought the license owns a company called the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group.

I guess it was basically just here are some words that start with RPSG...

 

[akkaps]

I actually thought it had to do with Dhoni wanting to take the 'Super' part from the 'SuperKings', and turning the new franchise into the 'SuperGiants.

 

[Van_Dyke]

The new teams logo and name is so so bad.

Dear god that's rubbish. To help with that rubbish theme, in the words of a wise man The_Reaper they should play at the

DHL Maximum Commonwealth Bank VB Dome

 

[Ronnie Baby]

Dear god that's rubbish. To help with that rubbish theme, in the words of a wise man The_Reaper they should play at the

Meh they will be replaced in two seasons anyway.

 

[akkaps]

BCCI mulling scaled down version of DRS for IPL

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/966845.html?CMP=chrome

The DRS without the LBW element (Hawkeye) element to it.



This is what Shane Watson had to say about it:

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Gee, I hope Delhi get Sanju Samson in the auction. Could build a franchise around him and Iyer.

 

[Hamingja]

I thought they already had the auction or was that just some cut off date for whether teams wanted to retain current players. I'm sure I heard the commentators on 10 reading out contract values at some stage of the big bash.

 

[akkaps]

I thought they already had the auction or was that just some cut off date for whether teams wanted to retain current players. I'm sure I heard the commentators on 10 reading out contract values at some stage of the big bash.

The auction is on the 6th.

What you probably heard was the Pune team and the Rajkot team being able at pick fife players from the Chennai and Rajathan franchises as retainer players. All the other teams have also picked which players they'd like to retain for the season and transfers between clubs have just come to an end.

 

[akkaps]

The Auction is today.


And the new Rajkot team have been unveiled at the Gujarat Lions:

 

[ioppolo]

Lion looks Lion King like.

 

[Torz]

Lion looks Lion King like.

Their mascot is James Earl Jones.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Keen for this. I hope Delhi snare Samson, Watson, Ishant and wouldn't mind Guptill given his form.

Add Sharma/Watto to our attack and it looks pretty handy - Zaheer, Sharma, Shami, Watson and Mishra.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Guptill unsold.

Ishant Sharma and KP to Pune, Dwayne Smith to Gujarat, Watson to RCB.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I don't understand why Guptill went unsold - a very small base price, considering Dwayne Smith fetched a lot more than Gup was asking (and I know who I consider better).

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Aaron Finch unsold. Queries over his injury, I suppose?

 

[PrideOf]

Shane Watson sells for $1.98 million.

This now ends the argument about whether Indians know anything about either cricket, or the value of money.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Delhi, with the biggest purse, didn't buy any of the marquee players. Interesting.

Shane Watson sells for $1.98 million.

This now ends the argument about whether Indians know anything about either cricket, or the value of money.

He's worth every cent of that in the IPL.