IPL 2016 Thread

[PrideOf]

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

New strategy? Or comfortable enough with what they've got?

 

[Rob]

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.

Back to doing f**k all for Australia now.

 

[Special Agent Utah]

Very surprised Guptill didn't get any bids.

 

[Oaktree]

Live YouTube legal stream of the auction:

 

[Hamingja]

820,000 for James Faulkner or 89,000 for Dre Russ

 

[Oaktree]

Khawaja unsold.

 

[PrideOf]

Khawaja unsold.

I hope Michael Slater hasn't started burning an effigy of Indian cricket in retaliation.

 

[BACCS]

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.

Ah, what? He's well and truly worth that in T20, especially now he has no Aussie commitments.

 

[Oaktree]

Gayle, Watson, Kohli and De Villiers for RCB is as mean a top 4 you can get in T20.

 

[BACCS]

Gayle, Watson, Kohli and De Villiers for RCB is as mean a top 4 you can get in T20.

They will pretty hard to beat with a lineup like that

 

[Carbine Chaos]

WHAT THE **** DID WE SPEND SO MUCH ON CHRIS MORRIS FOR WHAT THE ****

 

[Andrew Mc]

Gayle, Watson, Kohli and De Villiers for RCB is as mean a top 4 you can get in T20.

Yeah, that's a fairly handy group. Add in Starc to the squad and that's a very handy core.

 

[Oaktree]

The decision making behind the auction picks is quite fascinating.

Some teams go a long time without making a bid and when they make one, they bid hard.

A lot of planning must go into franchises short list of players to target.

This next session may see a lot of bargain buys, which may work out well for some franchises.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

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

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Delhi spend a shitload on Nair now. We waste money on spuds year after year and never learn.

This middle of the road cricketer costing us more than the likes of Steyn, Pietersen and Ishant Sharma.

40 times his base price. **** me.

 

[DT_fanatic]

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.

Notsureifsrs

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Now Negi for millions. What are we even doing? He's not that good, from what I've seen in the past. Though he has made their World T20 squad I think, so he's clearly rated by those in India.

We've spent basically half our purse on Negi and Morris. That is shit work.

 

[Oaktree]

Now Negi for millions. What are we even doing? He's not that good, from what I've seen in the past. Though he has made their World T20 squad I think, so he's clearly rated by those in India.

We've spent basically half our purse on Negi and Morris. That is shit work.

Great timing for Negi with his T20 squad inclusion.

 

[Oaktree]

One of the Delhi Daredevils staff has said they did 35 mock auctions over the past 3 days, analysing who will get picked and estimated prices.

They estimated Negi to go for up to 10 crore and got him at 8.5.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

One of the Delhi Daredevils staff has said they did 35 mock auctions over the past 3 days, analysing who will get picked and estimated prices.

They estimated Negi to go for up to 10 crore and got him at 8.5.

Then they're crazy. It only went up so high because Fleming trolled us.

 

[happy_eagle]

Still think that the Mumbai Indians line up best on paper

Mumbai Indians
1. Rohit Sharma
2. Jos Buttler
3. Ambati Rayudu
4. Corey Anderson
5. Kieron Pollard
6. Patriv Patel (wk)
7. Hardik Pandya
8. Tim Southee
9. Vinay Kumar
10. Harbhajan Singh
11. Lasith Malinga

 

[Torz]

Andrew Tye is listed as an all-rounder. Lol.

 

[Natho]

WHAT THE **** DID WE SPEND SO MUCH ON CHRIS MORRIS FOR WHAT THE ****

Who?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Who?

He's a handy South African all-rounder. I don't mind him as a player but we overpaid ridiculously.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Looks like the Usman conspiracy reaches even the IPL!