VIVO IPL 2018- Official Tournament Thread, April 7th to May 27th

[aklemalp]

Fixtures

TEAMS:

Chennai Super Kings Squad	MS Dhoni(c), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Kanishk Seth, Lungisani Ngidi, Dhruv Shorey, Murali Vijay, Sam Billings, Mark Wood, Kshitiz Sharma, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Shardul Thakur, N Jagadeesan, Mitchell Santner
Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad	Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Brendon McCullum, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme, Moeen Ali, Quinton de Kock, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Manan Vohra, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Navdeep Saini, Murugan Ashwin, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Siraj, Parthiv Patel, Anirudha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande, Tim Southee, Corey Anderson
Delhi Daredevils Squad	Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Rishabh Pant, Glenn Maxwell, Gautam Gambhir(c), Jason Roy, Colin Munro, Mohammed Shami, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Daniel Christian, Jayant Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Trent Boult, Manjot Kalra, Abhishek Sharma, Sandeep Lamichhane, Naman Ojha, Sayan Ghosh
Mumbai Indians Squad	Rohit Sharma(c), Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Mustafizur Rahman, Pat Cummins, Suryakumar Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Evin Lewis, Saurabh Tiwary, Ben Cutting, Pradeep Sangwan, Jean-Paul Duminy, Tajinder Singh, Sharad Lumba, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Mayank Markande, Akila Dananjaya, Anukul Roy, Mohsin Khan, MD Nidheesh, Mitchell McClenaghan
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad	Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik(c), Robin Uthappa, Mitchell Johnson, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubman Gill, Ishank Jaggi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Nitish Rana, Vinay Kumar, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Shivam Mavi, Cameron Delport, Javon Searles
Rajasthan Royals Squad	Ben Stokes, Stuart Binny, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Rahul Tripathi, D Arcy Short, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jofra Archer, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Sharma, Anureet Singh, Zahir Khan, Shreyas Gopal, Prashant Chopra, Sudhesan Midhun, Ben Laughlin, Mahipal Lomror, Aryaman Birla, Jatin Saxena, Dushmantha Chameera, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Steven Smith
Kings XI Punjab Squad	Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Yuvraj Singh, Karun Nair, Lokesh Rahul, Chris Gayle, David Miller, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Manoj Tiwary, Mohit Sharma, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Andrew Tye, Akshdeep Nath, Ben Dwarshuis, Pardeep Sahu, Mayank Dagar, Manzoor Dar
Sunrisers Hyderabad Squad	David Warner(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shakib Al Hasan, Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Wriddhiman Saha, Rashid Khan, Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Siddarth Kaul, T Natarajan, Mohammad Nabi, Basil Thampi, K Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Sachin Baby, Chris Jordan, Billy Stanlake, Tanmay Agarwal, Shreevats Goswami, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan

So Rajasthan Royals have stripped Steven Smith of captaincy...
Shakib has a new home: Sunrisers of Hyderabad
Mustafizur is now an Indian
Chennai Super Kings are back
Gayle is now a Punjabi...


This might be one of the most interesting IPL.

[DinRaat.]

WE need an indian vixen to cover this thread.

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by DinRaat.
WE need an indian vixen to cover this thread.

Nah, I have been running it for the last 3 editions.

Much more fun here

[aklemalp]

So Ashwin has been learning to bowl leg-spin, and is gonna use it in the IPL.

This experiment sounds fun...could potentially lose him some games. But no no worries since he is the captain of Kings XI Punjab

[Night_wolf]

so the Gujrat and Pune teams were just place holders?? I have couple of Gujrati friends, I am sure they are fuming over this. I remember how excited they were to get their team in IPL

[Night_wolf]

if only pune won their last match in IPL, we would have missing the defending champions in this edition. LOL

makes you wonder how fair the final was

[Night_wolf]

will warner still be sunraiser's captain?

[Yankees]

Originally Posted by Night_wolf
will warner still be sunraiser's captain?

Yes because sandpaper is yellow like the rising Sun.

[Jadukor]

must be a strong squad to be able to raise the sun

[Mas_UK25]

Who’s this Mehdi Hasan in SRH?

[adamnsu]

Originally Posted by DinRaat.
WE need an indian vixen to cover this thread.

Haaaaaeeeeell No

That being said Vixen has conducted himself quite well despite the many scrutiny he has come under. I dont think the Indian goons in here will sit down quietly and take such blows and it will end up more like a Bangladeshi bashing contest

[Mas_UK25]

I’m glad Shakib wasn’t retained by KKR. And I hope no other ever BD player ever play for KKR nor get bought by KKR. They don’t deserve our big support from BD. Any other place don’t care. But not KKR franchise.

They forget. Having a BD player, your fanbase goes up by a more bigger numbers. Wherever BD player goes, BD fans follow. KKR probably bad more fans from BD on twitter, Fb, Etc that there own place. But who can forget What their fans did world t20 2016 Bd v Pak game at edens. Twisted bunch is the right word to describe.

[DinRaat.]

Get your plastic bottles ready lads.

[aklemalp]

SRH should have stripped Warner of the captaincy and award it to Shakib.

Shakib is a veteran of IPL, and will not tolerate any BS from the umpires.

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Mas_UK25
Who’s this Mehdi Hasan in SRH?

Born and bred in Hyderabad :


http://m.espncricinfo.com/india/cont...er/477050.html

[iDumb]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
SRH should have stripped Warner of the captaincy and award it to Shakib.

Shakib is a veteran of IPL, and will not tolerate any BS from the umpires.

Warner is very important for SRH. I very much doubt they will do anything unless cricket Australia does something very drastic. And no way in hell shakib will be made captain. he will hardly make playing 11.

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by iDumb
Warner is very important for SRH. I very much doubt they will do anything unless cricket Australia does something very drastic. And no way in hell shakib will be made captain. he will hardly make playing 11.

Well, I guess he is still legit as far as SRH concerns.

But looks like both warner and Smith are facing one year bans...

I don't think SRH will hand captaincy to Shakib; but I do see him playing an integral part in their squad this season.

[aklemalp]

No firm statement on the no-objection certificates for the IPL. Will depend on the quantum of the verdict. But seems almost certain that Smith and Warner won't be at the IPL

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 27, 2018

[aklemalp]

Most likely, SRH will name Shikar Dhawan the captain...

But here are some likely options: Kane Williamson, Carlos Brathwaite, Wriddiman Saha, Bhuvi, Shakib, Nabi

Shakib is the most experienced player in their squad.

[Yankees]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
Most likely, SRH will name Shikar Dhawan the captain...

But here are some likely options: Kane Williamson, Carlos Brathwaite, Wriddiman Saha, Bhuvi, Shakib, Nabi

Shakib is the most experienced player in their squad.

Give me a break. No IPL team will ever name a Bangladeshi as captain. It's gonna be Dhawan or Williamson if he's available for the whole thing.

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Yankees
Give me a break. No IPL team will ever name a Bangladeshi as captain. It's gonna be Dhawan or Williamson if he's available for the whole thing.

Never say never.

SRH should replace Warner with the golden boy Mushfiqur RAHIM

[Yankees]

Originally Posted by aklemalp
Never say never.

SRH should replace Warner with the golden boy Mushfiqur RAHIM

only if they rename the team Hyderabad Naga Vipers. And that would still be a better name than sunrisers. Seriously is there a worse name in sports? Just what Hyderabadis need, another reminder that their city is hot as f***

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Yankees
only if they rename the team Hyderabad Naga Vipers. And that would still be a better name than sunrisers. Seriously is there a worse name in sports? Just what Hyderabadis need, another reminder that their city is hot as f***

That's why their biryani is the best; it has the secret ingredient: perspiration.

[aklemalp]

My Mumbai Lineup:

1. Rohit Sharma (c)
2. Evin Lewis (overseas #1)
3. S. Tiwary
4. Ishan Kishan (wk)
5. K. Pandya
6. K. Pollard (Overseas #2)
7. H. Pandya
8. McClenaghan/Cutting (overseas #3)
9. P. Sangwan
10. Cummins/Mustafizur/Akila (overseas #4)
11. Unknown Indian Bowler

[aklemalp]

^^ The Pandya brothers and Pollard can all move within those spots 5, 6, & 7...