BeautifulGame Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 Stoke's international batting average is 14 and his bowling average is nearly 50 with an economy of over 9 . Even if you drop those stats to domestic T20, his batting average is 22 and averages nearly 40 with the ball.Just beyond awful . How on earth did Pune pay 15 crores for him.What a joke. Goenka is truly genius Sidhoni, sscomp32 and velu 3
rkt.india Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 6 minutes ago, BeautifulGame said: Stoke's international batting average is 14 and his bowling average is nearly 50 with an economy of over 9 . Even if you drop those stats to domestic T20, his batting average is 22 and averages nearly 40 with the ball.Just beyond awful . How on earth did Pune pay 15 crores for him.What a joke. Goenka is truly genius Not just Goenka. Several teams were going after him. Goenka just got unlucky. Pollack and sscomp32 2
velu Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 to be fair he has potential with both bat and ball .. don't have yorkers , can't be used in death though
Sidhoni Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 We knew that the day he was bought itself sscomp32 and velu 2
Gollum Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 TBH almost all English players in IPL have been letdowns. Still remember IPL 2 where Flintoff and KP got highest bids. English and Lankan overseas players in general have been the absolute worst across all IPLs.
BeautifulGame Posted April 16, 2017 Author Posted April 16, 2017 to be fair he has potential with both bat and ball .. don't have yorkers , can't be used in death though Yes he has potential .But worth what they paid? Pune could have easily picked a couple of seamers like Thambi/Rabada. Which would have increased their team miles better.
Ultimate_Game Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 Not Stokes' fault. I blame the franchise owners who should be smart enough to understand that splurging on one or two players never works in professional sports leagues with salary caps. They only need to look at NFL or any professional league with a salary cap in place. It's always advisable to build depth and spend on multiple solid players than put a big chunk of money in one or few players. ipl is fun 1
ipl is fun Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said: Not Stokes' fault. I blame the franchise owners who should be smart enough to understand that splurging on one or two players never works in professional sports leagues with salary caps. They only need to look at NFL or any professional league with a salary cap in place. It's always advisable to build depth and spend on multiple solid players than put a big chunk of money in one or few players. Agree its not Stoke's fault. I am hoping all the franchise owners do listen to Coaches and Team scouts (like they have in NFL) and decide on player. DD did make mistake last time with Negi but learnt from it. RPS were desperate with Mitch Marsh being injured Ultimate_Game 1
Pollack Posted April 16, 2017 Posted April 16, 2017 Stokes would have done better in other teams like MI. MI lack a proper batting allrounder in the middle order. Pollard is doing a decent job from last two matches but still a backup was required having released Corey.
Zero_Unit Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 C. Woakes is no better. Performance so far has been terrible.
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