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Who would you recruit for the IPL in the January auction?
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Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Also Jacques Kallis. He's been promoted as their frontline all-rounder even when his T20 bowling is poor, his batting lacks the strike rate and he's not even a top T20/T20I player. Surely Shakib could play in place of him.
Best possible KKR XI:
- Uthappa
- Gambhir
- Lynn
- Shakib (SLA)
- Manish Pandey
- Debabrata (WK?)
- SA Yadav
- Vinay Kumar (RM)
- Narine (OB)
- Morne (RF)
- Umesh Yadav (RFM)
That four overseas players are not enough is not an excuse to field a weak team or play poor cricket. Teams from other leagues manage with only two overseas players, or even one. Yet, we've seen several teams compete neck and neck with IPL franchises, and a few have even got the better of them.
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vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Of course they would. You reckon he hasn't been having a whale of a time over there before? Teams talk amongst each other.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
In other news, ex-employees of now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines, owned by RCB Boss Vijay Mallya, have written an open letter to Yuvraj Singh to not play for Mallya in the IPL. I support that. It's not funny when you're not paid for several months, but the boss can pay multiple times the amount to a cricketer who's in and out of active cricket.
G.I.Joe
International Coach
That's a good point but I don't know if guilt tripping a cricket player, however overvalued he might be, for Mallya's brazenness is the done thing. It just doesn't sit right. Appeal to the entire RCB team, IMO. They're obviously not going to write out a cheque to the airline employees, but at least it publicises the issue and shames Mallya. Shouldn't put it all on the one person who's had a stroke of luck.
G.I.Joe
International Coach
Hypothetical question:
Kohli is currently 25 years and 102 days old. There's a young Sachin Tendulkar of the exact same age around, i.e, he's at the stage of his career where he's played his famous twin desert storm innings against Australia 3 months ago.
Who's the hotter property at the IPL?
Kohli is currently 25 years and 102 days old. There's a young Sachin Tendulkar of the exact same age around, i.e, he's at the stage of his career where he's played his famous twin desert storm innings against Australia 3 months ago.
Who's the hotter property at the IPL?
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Fair point, but I feel Yuvraj is much closer to the Indian cricket fans than other players who have been bought, and unlike Gayle and Kohli, who have been retained, he's been bought only in this auction. Indeed, they should appeal to the entire RCB team, and maybe they have, but the appeal to Yuvraj was the most publicised one. I do feel at least the West Indians, who have had problems of non-payment with their board, should support them. None of these players will go bankrupt if they turn down this braggart's money.
The investment that goes in education to prepare you for a career here is not small money. To spend so much, and be paid nothing for months, is not funny at all. That braggart has no business sense, and only enjoys posing before cameras, with glasses of alcohol and models/celebrities. Instead of running his airline properly, all he did is try to ground every competing airline in India, and when his airline went sick, he looted Government banks, who had no business funding loss-making airlines with public money. Then he begged for a bailout. I do hope the players understand this.
Yuvraj has been paid a hefty amount. That's more than one fifth the total squad cost. If he withdrew from the team or the event, the impact will be profound. While most IPL players, even at the bottom end, get paid a lot of crazy big money, payment is still very unequal.and a few others may need the money, but I don't believe any cricketer who has nothing to do with Kingfisher should get money that KFA employees deserve to be paid.
