zen Posted May 30 Posted May 30 (edited) As we know that unlike national teams, IPL teams are influenced by auction dynamics where they do not necessarily end up with their first choice players. Many times, a large portion of the budget is spent on a handful of players so the rest of the spots are filled based on scouting low salary players, hoping for them to click. Take SRH for example where it likely spent a lot on Abhishek, Head, Kishan, Klassen, and Cummins. While the batting appears good, the bowling is relatively undermined. And unlike national teams, it cannot add impactful depth to its batting due to auction dynamics. National teams can bring in all rounders like Axar, Hardik, etc, but in IPL, these all rounders would go at a premium too to be premium picks of a different team. While these hack teams may perform well against relatively underperforming teams and/or teams with a relatively poor bowling attack in the league stage, they are potentially vulnerable when they meet in form teams in playoff where they can get exposed under pressure against good bowling attacks. They lack the relative depth that top tier national teams like England (or India through Axar, Hardik, etc.) would enjoy. To build both batting and bowling depth, an IPL team would ideally need to invest in all rounders. Impact player rule helps but many times a player coming in as an impact player is not even a top domestic player. Discuss! Edited May 30 by zen
maniac Posted May 30 Posted May 30 (edited) 51 minutes ago, zen said: As we know that unlike national teams, IPL teams are influenced by auction dynamics where they do not necessarily end up with their first choice players. Many times, a large portion of the budget is spent on a handful of players so the rest of the spots are filled based on scouting low salary players, hoping for them to click. Take SRH for example where it likely spent a lot on Abhishek, Head, Kishan, Klassen, and Cummins. While the batting appears good, the bowling is relatively undermined. SRH also took a chance with young unknowns, Malinga jr has already become a SL superstar. Shakib might be a few performances away from being an India contender and who knows Hinge might also massively improve like Siraj who was also a rookie with SRH when he started. He was decent in patches. if any of them or all of them click, SRH brand equity will improve. iPL is business (risk + superstar culture) + emotions (Indian public is sentimental so what might be seeming nonsense for us with Rohit, Kohli. Dhoni is encouraged for a reason which is not to play with sentiments + cricketing logic- like identifying a good future coach like Aaron and let him drive the attack. Edited May 30 by maniac nevada 1
zen Posted May 30 Author Posted May 30 21 minutes ago, maniac said: SRH also took a chance with young unknowns Every team has to have a mix of young unknowns when a large portion of the budget is spent on a handful of players. When the mega auction comes many of the unknowns become known to demand a relatively higher price so the cycle of depending and developing unknown continues. The core of a squad can change after every mega auction.
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