IDEAL XI –
COMMENTS AND RATINGS –
AMONGST ALL 10 TEAMS, IT FELT AS IF MUMBAI INDIANS HAD THE WORST AUCTION THIS SEASON. HAVING BOUGHT ONLY 4 PLAYERS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE AUCTION AND THEN GETTING MAJORITY PLAYERS AT A VERY HEFTY PRICE ON DAY 2 CHANGED THEIR WHOLE AUCTION DYNAMICS THIS SEASON. THE TEAM WHICH WAS FEARED TILL DATE TO PLAY AGAINST, CURRENTLY SEEMS A BIT RELYING ON THEIR 5 CORE PLAYERS FROM THE PREVIOUS SEASONS, APART FROM DAVID AS A FINISHER. NOT SURE HOW THEIR 2022 SEASON WOULD VENTURE OUT TO BE, BUT WITH BREVIS A GREAT YOUNG TALENT AND ARCHER MOSTLY AVAILABLE FROM 2023 SEASON, THEY HAVE GONE FOR A FUTURISTIC SIDE AND THE UPCOMING YEARS FOR THEM COULD BE REALLY GOOD.
TEAM RATING – 6/10
IDEAL XI –
COMMENTS AND RATING –
I FOUND THIS TO BE THE STRONGEST LOOKING SQUAD AMONGST ALL 10 TEAMS WITH ALL BASES COVERED WITH ENOUGH BACKUPS TO ALL BASES. FINISHERS, ALL ROUNDERS, SPINNERS, TOP ORDER BATSMEN, SEAMERS, YOUNGSTERS, EXPERIENCED PLAYERS, FUTURE PROSPECTS, EVERY DOMAIN HAS BEEN COVERED SO WELL BY THIS SQUAD THAT THIS SQUAD LOOKS REALLY DANGEROUS ON PAPER. THE ONLY ISSUE THEY’LL FACE YET AGAIN IS ANOTHER NEW CAPTAIN TO THIS FRANCHISE. THIS IS THE ONLY FRACHISE HAVING HAD MORE THAN 10 DIFFERENT CAPTAINS TILL DATE, AND YET AGAIN THEY’LL HAVE A NEW ONE THIS SEASON.
TEAM RATING – 9/10
IDEAL XI –
COMMENTS AND RATING –
A VERY DIFFERENT LOOKING TEAM THAN ITS PREVIOUS SEASON’S SQUAD, THEY’VE COVERED ALL THEIR PREVIOUS WEAKNESSES. THEY HAVE THE EXPERIENCE, WITH AGGRESSION AND TECHNIQUE IN THEIR BATTING UNIT, RIGHT AND LEFT ARM SEAMERS, AND OFF-BREAK AND LEG-BREAK BOWLERS IN THEIR BOWLING UNIT. THEY HAVE IDEAL BACKUPS TO THEIR OVERSEAS STARS IN CASE OF THEIR UNAVAILABILITIES AND HAVE QUITE A FEW OPTIONS WHICH CAN BE TRIED AND TESTED. THE ONLY DOMAIN THEY MIGHT HAVE AN ISSUE IS THEIR BACKUP INDIAN UNIT, SINCE THAT LIST OF PLAYERS ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF FORM OR HAVE NEVER PLAYED IN THE IPL. OVERALL, HOWEVER, THEY HAVE A MUCH BETTER SQUAD THAN MANY OTHERS AND CAN DO MUCH BETTER THAN THEIR PREVIOUS SEASON’S PERFORMANCES.
TEAM RATING – 8/10
IDEAL XI –
COMMENTS AND RATING –
THEY HAD 1.55Cr IN THEIR REMAINING PURSE WITH 3 SPOTS YET TO FILL, AND HAVING TAKEN NO INDIAN UNCAPPED BATSMEN TO FILL THEIR SLOTS, IT’S EVIDENT THEY ARE FILLING THEIR MIDDLE ORDER WITH LOMROR AND RAWAT, AND RELYING ON VIRAT, FAF AND MAXI WITH THE BAT, AND ON KARTHIK FOR THE EXPERIENCE AS A FINISHER, THOUGH HE HASN’T BEEN IN A VERY GOOD FORM IN RECENT TIMES. THEIR INDIAN BATTING UNIT IS GOING TO BE A HUGE ISSUE FOR THEM IN THIS SEASON AS THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BACKUPS AND ALSO LACK THE EXPERIENCE IN THE SAME, WITH ONLY KOHLI AND KARTHIK THERE IN A 16-MEMBER INDIAN SQUAD WHO HAVE THE EXPERIENCE. THEY HAVE HOWEVER STACKED THEIR BOWLING UNIT WITH AMPLE OPTIONS AND WITH ALL POSSIBLE BOWLING VARIATIONS COVERED. THEIR PREVIOUS SEAONS USUALLY SAW A BATTING DOMINANT UNIT, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GOING FOR A BOWLING DOMINANT UNIT. ONLY TIME CAN TELL HOW EFFECTIVE THAT TURNS OUT TO BE.
TEAM RATING – 7.5/10
IDEAL XI –
COMMENTS AND RATING –
THEY STARTED THE AUCTION WITH ONE OVERSEAS AND TWO UNCAPPED INDIAN PLAYERS AMONGST THEIR 3 RETAINED PLAYERS AND HAD THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF WORK TO DO IN THE AUCTION AMONGST ALL THE 10 TEAMS. THEY DID A FAIRLY DECENT JOB, HOWEVER THEY STILL DON’T HAVE AN EXPERIENCED INDIAN BATTING UNIT IN THEIR SQUAD TO CHOOSE FROM. WITH SHEPHERD AND ABBOTT, THEY ARE RELYING ON TWO SPEEDSTERS WHO ARE ALSO BIG HITTERS OF THE BALL TO DELIVER AS FINISHERS. THEY PROBABLY HAVE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS LOOKING OVERSEAS UNIT, BUT THEY HAVE TO RELY ON MAJORITY OF INDIANS, TO WHICH THEY’LL HAVE TO A FIGURE A WAY OUT ON HOW TO UTILIZE THEM IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ROLES. WITH SUNDAR AND NATARAJAN OUT WITH AN INJURY ON MOST OCCASIONS IN RECENT TIMES AND BHUVI NOT BEING ABLE TO DELIVER THE WAY HE USED TO EARLIER, IT COULD BE ALL ON THEIR OVERSEAS STARS TO PERFORM FOR THIS TEAM IN THIS SEASON.
TEAM RATING – 6.5/10