The IPL 2016 Thread

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Starts on Saturday night for those that follow it. Once again the best way to view it in Australia is unfortunately online, due to the insane amount of money that the BCCI wanted from local broadcasters to telecast the tournament.

Teams are as follows, with 4 internationals allowed per side

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

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

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

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

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

Rising Pune Supergiants
MS Dhoni (c), Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Murugan Ashwin, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Scott Boland, Deepak Chahar, Ashok Dinda, Faf du Plessis, Peter Handscomb, Jaskaran Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Albie Morkel, Ishwar Pandey, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Kevin Pietersen, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Steven Smith, Saurabh Tiwary, Adam Zampa

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli (c), Varun Aaron, Abu Nechim, Sreenath Aravind, Samuel Badree, Stuart Binny, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Praveen Dubey, Chris Gayle, Travis Head, Iqbal Abdulla, Kedar Jadhav, Akshay Karnewar, Sarfaraz Khan, Vikramjeet Malik, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Parvez Rasool, Harshal Patel, Lokesh Rahul, Kane Richardson, Sachin Baby, Mitchell Starc, Vikas Tokas, Shane Watson, David Wiese

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

 

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Shreyas Iyer
Quinton de Kock
Sanju Samson (+)
JP Duminy
Karun Nair
Pawan Negi
Carlos Brathwaite
Chris Miller
Amit Mishra
Mohammad Shami
Zaheer Khan (c)

That looks like a pretty good side for Delhi in the end, especially with NCN and Imran Tahir as options on the bench. What is really exciting is the combo of Iyer and Samson up the top - two of the brightest stars of the comp. de Kock is in some excellent form right now and should be starting XI.

 

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Possible Best XI's (A bit of guess work on some of the Indians is based on T20 form overall)

Dehli
Quinton De Kock, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson (wk), J.P Duminy, Karun Nair, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Pawan Negi, Armit Mishra, Zaheer Khan (c), Mohamed Shami,

Gujurat
Aaron Finch, Brendon McCullum, Paras Dogra, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Suresh Raina (c) , Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Praveen Kumar, Dulwhar Kulkarni

Kings XI
Murali Vijay, Shaun Marsh, Manan Vohra, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Glenn Maxwell, David Miller (c), Gukeerat Singh Mann, Mitchell Johnson, Axar Patel, Sandeep Sharma, Mohit Sharma

Kolkatta
Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa (wk), Colin Munro, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Shakib Al-Hasan, Andre Russell, Yusuf Pathan ,Umesh Yadav, Piysuh Chawla, Sunil Narine

Mumbai
Rohit Sharma (c), Patriv Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Corey Anderson, Kieron Pollard, Jos Buttler (wk), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Vinay Kumar, Harbahajahn Singh, Lasith Malinga

Pune
Ajinkya Rahane, Sarubah Tiwary, Kevin Pietersen, Faf Du Plessis, Steve Smith, MS Dhoni (wk), Albie Morkel, Ravi Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, RP Singh, Ashok Dinda

Bangalore
Chris Gayle, A.B DeVilliers, Virat Kohli, Kedar Jadhav, Lokesh Rahul (wk), Madeep Singh, Stuart Binny, Mitchell Starc, Sreenath Aravind, Varun Aaron, Samuel Badree

Sunrisers
Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Eoin Morgan, Yuvraj Singh, Adita Tare (wk), Karn Sharma , Naman Ojha, Trent Boult, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra

From that list I reckon Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore have the strongest sides

 

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Dehli
Quinton De Kock, Sanju Samson (wk), Mayank Agarwal, J.P Duminy, Karun Nair, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Armit Mishra, Zaheer Khan (c), Mohamed Shami, Pawan Negi

Shreyas Iyer plz. Negi at 11? He'll bat 6/7.

 

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Shreyas Iyer plz. Negi at 11? He'll bat 6/7.

Meant to have Negi higher, was moving players around but left him at 11 accidently
I dont know much about Iyer, but I will take it from you he is a good player as you follow Delhi quite closely

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Meant to have Negi higher, was moving players around but left him at 11 accidently
I dont know much about Iyer, but I will take it from you he is a good player as you follow Delhi quite closely

Yeah mate got the gong for best young player in the comp and was electric as an opener, one of the first picked for me. Negi has a huge role to play, he's clearly highly rated by the higher ups in India so has a lot to prove.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Surely Watson is playing...they just paid 1.87 million for him!

Starc won't be playing at least in the early stages.

 

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Surely Watson is playing...they just paid 1.87 million for him!

Starc won't be playing at least in the early stages.

Gayle, AB and Badree are walk up starts leaving only one International left
If fit, Starc plays over Watson

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Gayle, AB and Badree are walk up starts leaving only one International left
If fit, Starc plays over Watson

Watson will be playing, and probably over ABDV if it came to that. As good as ABDV is...he isn't a fantastic T20 player. Starc won't be fit.

 

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he isn't a fantastic T20 player. .

De Villiers has played 104 IPL Matches, scored 2571 runs at 36 including 2 T20 centuries, and 15 half centuries at a strike rate of 144
I reckon thats pretty handy

 

[LukeParkerno1]

De Villiers has played 104 IPL Matches, scored 2571 runs at 36 including 2 T20 centuries, and 15 half centuries at a strike rate of 144
I reckon thats pretty handy

Watson is better and his bowling will see him picked. You are not paying close to 2 million dollars for someone to sit on the bench. Starc won't play regardless, but if he is fit, one of the others won't play. Despite us losing in the WC, Watson was close to the best A/R in the tournament...he has multiple IPL MOTS awards, you would be absolutely NUTS not to play him. You need bowling options.

Agree to disagree.

 

[gym4life]

Gayle, AB and Badree are walk up starts leaving only one International left
If fit, Starc plays over Watson

Watson is first picked mate.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Watson is first picked mate.

This. I think people forget just how good his IPL record is. There is a reason he went for $1.86 million...

 

[Shiv]

Starc is definately not playing! Big blow for RCB.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Starc is definately not playing! Big blow for RCB.

He might play towards the back end. Was never playing in the first few weeks.

 

[Shiv]

He might play towards the back end. Was never playing in the first few weeks.

Nope, he is out for the entire tournament. He is aiming to be back for the ODIs in the west indies.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-...-australia27s-tri-series-in-west-indi/7288860

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Nope, he is out for the entire tournament. He is aiming to be back for the ODIs in the west indies.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-...-australia27s-tri-series-in-west-indi/7288860

Good! It is only a T20 tournament in the end.

 

[akkaps]

I thought there was already a thread for this.

 

[akkaps]

Sunrisers
Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Eoin Morgan, Yuvraj Singh, Adita Tare (wk), Karn Sharma , Naman Ojha, Trent Boult, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra

Good side for the Sunrisers, though I'd put Naman up higher in the order. He usually bats much higher up.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Would have Naman taking the gloves too.

 

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Just realised I have confused Naman Ojha with Pragyan Ojha
Havent watched enough IPL to know the Indian players

 

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First game on tonight 12.30am EST
Mumbai Indians vs Supergiants

 

[Hamingja]

De Villiers has played 104 IPL Matches, scored 2571 runs at 36 including 2 T20 centuries, and 15 half centuries at a strike rate of 144
I reckon thats pretty handy

Watson matches that with the bat plus he bowls.

 

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Are we all thinking of the same Shane Watson

Gayle and DeVilliers for mine are the best 2 T20 bats in the world (outside of Kohli, who is also in the side).
Badree might be the best T20 spinner in the World, and Starc probably the best T20 pace bowler in World Cricket.
I would rate each of these players better than Watson overall, despite the fact he bats and bowls

 

[akkaps]

ABDV is a better 50 over player