HOW THE IPL 2022 SQUADS LOOK - Part 2

6. MUMBAI INDIANS

1. ROHIT SHARMA
2. JASPRIT BUMRAH
3. SURYAKUMAR YADAV
4. KIERON POLLARD
5. ISHAN KISHAN
6. DEWALD BREVIS
7. JAYDEV UNADKAT
8. BASIL THAMPI
9. MURUGAN ASHWIN
10. MAYANK MARKANDE
11. JOFRA ARCHER
12. DANIEL SAMS
13. TYMAL MILLS
14. RILEY MEREDITH
15. TILAK VARMA
16. TIM DAVID
17. SANJAY YADAV
18. MD ARSHAD KHAN
19. ANMOLPREET SINGH
20. RAMANDEEP SINGH
21. ARYAN JUYAL
22. RAHUL BUDDHI
23. FABIAN ALLEN
24. ARJUN TENDULKAR
25. HRITHIK SHOKEEN

IDEAL XI –

1. ROHIT SHARMA
2. ISHAN KISHAN
3. ANMOLPREET SINGH
4. SURYAKUMAR YADAV
5. KIERON POLLARD
6. TIM DAVID
7. DANIEL SAMS
8. JAYDEV UNADKAT
9. MURUGAN ASHWIN
10. RILEY MEREDITH
11. JASPRIT BUMRAH

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

7. PUNJAB KINGS

1. MAYANK AGARWAL
2. ARSHDEEP SINGH
3. SHIKHAR DHAWAN
4. KAGISO RABADA
5. JONNY BAIRSTOW
6. RAHUL CHAHAR
7. SHAH RUKH KHAN
8. HARPREET BRAR
9. PRABHSIMRAN SINGH
10. JITESH SHARMA
11. ISHAN POREL
12. ODEAN SMITH
13. LIAM LIVINGSTONE
14. RAJ ANGAD BAWA
15. SANDEEP SHARMA
16. RISHI DHAWAN
17. PRERAK MANKAD
18. VAIBHAV ARORA
19. WRITTICK CHATTERJEE
20. NATHAN ELLIS
21. BALTEJ DHANDA
22. BENNY HOWELL
23. ANSH PATEL
24. BHANUKA RAJAPAKSA
25. ATHARVA TAIDE

IDEAL XI –

1. MAYANK AGARWAL
2. SHIKHAR DHAWAN
3. JONNY BAIRSTOW
4. LIAM LIVINGSTONE
5. RISHI DHAWAN
6. SHAH RUKH KHAN
7. ODEAN SMITH
8. HARPREET BRAR
9. KAGISO RABADA
10. RAHUL CHAHAR
11. ARSHDEEP SINGH

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

8. RAJASTHAN ROYALS

1. SANJU SAMSON
2. JOS BUTTLER
3. YASHASVI JAISWAL
4. DEVDUTT PADIKKAL
5. RAVICHANDRAN ASHWIN
6. SHIMRON HETMYER
7. TRENT BOULT
8. PRASIDH KRISHNA
9. YUZVENDRA CHAHAL
10. KC CARIAPPA
11. RIYAN PARAG
12. NAVDEEP SAINI
13. OBED McCOY
14. JAMES NEESHAM
15. NATHAN COULTER-NILE
16. KULDEEP SEN
17. KARUN NAIR
18. RASSIE VAN DER DUSSEN
19. DARYL MITCHELL
20. DHRUV JUREL
21. TEJAS BAROKA
22. KULDIP YADAV
23. SHUBHAM GARHWAL
24. ANUNAY SINGH

IDEAL XI –

1. DEVDUTT PADIKKAL
2. YASHASVI JAISWAL
3. SANJU SAMSON
4. JOS BUTTLER
5. SHIMRON HETMYER
6. RIYAN PARAG
7. RAVICHANDRAN ASHWIN
8. NATHAN COULTER-NILE
9. PRASIDH KRISHNA
10. TRENT BOULT
11. YUZVENDRA CHAHAL

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

9. ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE

1. VIRAT KOHLI
2. GLENN MAXWELL
3. MOHAMMAD SIRAJ
4. FAF DU PLESSIS
5. ANUJ RAWAT
6. MAHIPAL LOMROR
7. WANINDU HASARANGA
8. SHAHBAZ AHMED
9. DINESH KARTHIK
10. SIDDHARTH KAUL
11. HARSHAL PATEL
12. JOSH HAZLEWOOD
13. AKASH DEEP
14. SUYASH PRABHUDESSAI
15. LUVNITH SISODIA
16. FINN ALLEN
17. SHERFANE RUTHERFORD
18. JASON BEHRENDORFF
19. CHAMA MILIND
20. DAVID WILLEY
21. ANEESHWAR GAUTHAM
22. KARN SHARMA

IDEAL XI –

1. VIRAT KOHLI
2. FAF DU PLESSIS
3. ANUJ RAWAT
4. GLENN MAXWELL
5. MAHIPAL LOMROR
6. DINESH KARTHIK
7. WANINDU HASARANGA
8. SHAHBAZ AHMED
9. HARSHAL PATEL
10. JOSH HAZLEWOOD
11. MOHAMMAD SIRAJ

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

10. SUNRISERS HYDERABAD

1. KANE WILLIAMSON
2. ABDUL SAMAD
3. UMRAN MALIK
4. RAHUL TRIPATHI
5. ABHISHEK SHARMA
6. KARTIK TYAGI
7. T NATARAJAN
8. BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR
9. WASHINGTON SUNDAR
10. NICHOLAS POORAN
11. PRIYAM GARG
12. VISHNU VINOD
13. SHREYAS GOPAL
14. JAGADEESHA SUCHITH
15. ROMARIO SHEPHERD
16. SEAN ABBOTT
17. GLENN PHILLIPS
18. AIDEN MARKRAM
19. MARCO JANSEN
20. RAVIKUMAR SAMARTH
21. SHASHANK SINGH
22. FAZALHAQ FAROOQI
23. SAURABH DUBEY

IDEAL XI –

1. RAHUL TRIPATHI
2. ABHISHEK SHARMA
3. KANE WILLIAMSON
4. NICHOLAS POORAN
5. ABDUL SAMAD
6. VISHNU VINOD
7. ROMARIO SHEPHERD
8. SEAN ABBOTT
9. WASHINGTON SUNDAR
10. BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR
11. T NATARAJAN

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