The great Gujarat Titans (Wolves) auction thread

[Chakdephatte]

GT and SRH creating perfect team for their home conditions e en if some players don't look like fancy T20 picks. Would have loved to to see Noor but CSK played smart. Might have gone for Ghazanfar as well. 

 

My early prediction for finalists. Let's see. 

Edited November 25 by Chakdephatte

[zen]

J Yadav 0.75

[maniac]

@zen please compile a list of player so far, easier to keep a track.

[zen]

44 minutes ago, maniac said:

@zen please compile a list of player so far, easier to keep a track.

In the OP!

[zen]

Accelerated auction … 3.2 still remain

[The Hound]

Gill

Buttler

Sai

Rutherford

Shahrukh

Tewatia

Rashid

Sundar

Kishore

Rabada/Coetzee

Siraj

 

This is a pretty formidable XI 

[zen]

11 minutes ago, The Hound said:

Gill

Buttler

Sai

Rutherford

Shahrukh

Tewatia

Rashid

Sundar

Kishore

Rabada/Coetzee

Siraj

 

This is a pretty formidable XI 

At A’bad, GT will play 3-4 pacers (one can come in as impact player if bowling 2nd).

[zen]

Glenn Phillips 2.0

Karim Janat 0.75

[Vickydev]

Very shrewd buys. Did quite well

[maniac]

GT is like RR, boring team but effective. They have shrewd management staff.

[zen]

My preferred starting 12 (w/ impact player) at A’bad:

 

 

Sai S

Gill

Buttler

Sundar

Phillips/Rutherford 

SRK

Tewatia 

Rashid

Rabada/Coetzee

Sai K/Ishant 

Siraj

Kirshna 

 

Edited November 25 by zen

[maniac]

1 minute ago, zen said:

My preferred starting 12 (w/ impact player) at A’bad:

 

 

Sai S

Gill

Buttler

Sundar

Phillips/Rutherford 

SRK

Tewatia 

Rashid

Rabada/Coetzee

Sai K

Siraj

Kirshna 

 

Gill at 3 and Butler at 2. Sai and Gill are very similar even though they are premium batsmen. If they opened for some other team you would open a thread criticizing their approach  

[zen]

Just now, maniac said:

Gill at 3 and Butler at 2. Sai and Gill are very similar even though they are premium batsmen. If they opened for some other team you would open a thread criticizing their approach  

Both have a good record at A’bad. Buttler now bats at #3 for Eng and probably can relatively adjust better at #3 per the situation than the other two but yeah, the batting order is flexible. 

[zen]

The final 25th player Khejrolia 0.3

 

GT used all 25 slots.

[maniac]

Good to see GT picked Phillips. They won’t waste his talent. Tewatiya and Phillips are going to create nuisance for teams in middle order as batsmen.

[Lord]

They should give captaincy to Jos. Gill is very mediocre captain. 

 

It'll also free up his batting

[Lord]

58 minutes ago, zen said:

My preferred starting 12 (w/ impact player) at A’bad:

 

 

Sai S

Gill

Buttler

Sundar

Phillips/Rutherford 

SRK

Tewatia 

Rashid

Rabada/Coetzee

Sai K/Ishant 

Siraj

Kirshna 

 

batting looks a bit light.  They might need to play both Philips and Rutherford and leave out Rabada/Coetzee. Pace attack seems fine without them

[zen]

5 minutes ago, Lord said:

batting looks a bit light.  They might need to play both Philips and Rutherford and leave out Rabada/Coetzee. Pace attack seems fine without them

It depends on form. Pick the ones in good form. GT has chosen players who are likely to do well at venues like A’bad. 
 

For GT someone or the other tends to step up so let’s see whose season it turns out to be.

[zen]

Players picked up at base price:

 

Ishant 0.75

Jayant 0.75

Janat 0.75

Sindhu 0.3

Rawat 0.3

Sutar 0.3

Khejrolia 0.3

Unused budget: 0.15

 

3.6 = 7 players at base price + unused amount. 
 

Most of these guys are going to warm the bench so maybe GT was better off getting a 2 cr base price player (many went unsold) and then using the rest to pick up other base price players. Could have even bid more on some of the players it could have lost by a fraction. 
 

[zen]