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Nagraj Gollapudi15-Dec-2023

Chennai Super Kings

Purse available: INR 31.40 crore (USD 3.77 million approx.)
Slots left: 6 (3 overseas)
Key positions to be filled: A replacement for Ambati Rayudu. They need another Indian batter for the middle order as well, ideally a power-hitter. Also, an overseas fast bowler who maybe doubles up as an allrounder, and an Indian fast bowler.
Current squad: MS Dhoni, Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Nishant Sindhu, Ajay Mandal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Matheesha Pathirana
The now-retired Ambati Rayudu played some crucial knocks for Chennai Super Kings as impact sub last season•Getty Images

Mumbai Indians

Purse available: INR 17.75 crore (USD 2.13 million approx.)
Slots left: 8 (4 overseas)

Key positions to be filled: The dominant Mumbai Indians teams of the past have always comprised two overseas fast bowlers, one of them being an allrounder, so expect them to look out for those skillsets. One of those could also be a spin-bowling allrounder.

Current squad: Rohit Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Hardik Pandya, Romario Shepherd

Gujarat Titans

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Purse available: INR 38.15 crore (USD 4.58 million approx.)
Slots left: 8 (2 overseas)
Key positions to be filled: While like-for-like might be tough, they need a replacement for Hardik Pandya – a batting or bowling allrounder, perhaps an overseas option. Also, an overseas fast bowler in place of Alzarri Josesph. And an Indian keeper-batter as a back-up for Wriddhiman Saha.
Current squad: David Miller, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudharsan, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Rashid Khan, Josh Little, Mohit Sharma
How do you fill a Hardik Pandya-sized hole in your squad?•BCCI

Kolkata Knight Riders

Purse available: INR 32.70 crore (USD 3.92 million approx.)
Slots left: 12 (4 overseas)
Key positions to be filled: Two overseas quicks, including one with all-round skills. And an Indian keeper-batter.
Current squad: Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shreyas Iyer, Jason Roy, Anukul Roy, Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Purse available: INR 23.25 crore (USD 2.79 millon approx.)
Slots left: 6 (3 overseas)

Key positions to be filled: Replacements for Wanindu Hasaranga and Harshal Patel. An overseas fast bowler to replace Josh Hazlewood. Also, an Indian allrounder or finisher to replace Shahbaz Ahmed, who transferred to Sunrisers Hyderabad via a trade.
Current squad: Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Suyash Prabhudessai, Will Jacks, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Cameron Green, Mayank Dagar
Having released Harshal Patel, and several other big names from their bowling attack, RCB have some shopping to do•BCCI

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Purse available: INR 34 crore (USD 4.08 million approx.)
Slots left: 6 (3 overseas)
Key positions to be filled: Overseas allrounder (batting or bowling), and an Indian batter. Also, an overseas wristspinner.
Current squad: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Yadav, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Shahbaz Ahmed

Delhi Capitals

Purse available: INR 28.95 crore (USD 3.47 million approx.)
Slots left: 9 (4 overseas)

Key positions to be filled: An overseas fast-bowling allrounder, an Indian keeper-batter, and an Indian finisher.
Current squad: Rishabh Pant, David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Pravin Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Released by Punjab Kings, Shahrukh Khan could be a big pull at the auction•AFP via Getty Images

Punjab Kings

Purse available: INR 29.10 crore (USD 3.49 million approx.)
Slots left: 8 (2 overseas)
Key positions to be filled: An Indian batting allrounder to replace Shahrukh Khan, who was released. An overseas fast-bowling allrounder.
Current squad: Shikhar Dhawan, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harpreet Bhatia

Rajasthan Royals

Purse available: INR 14.50 crore (USD 1.74 million approx.)
Slots left: 8 (3 overseas)

Key positions to be filled: An overseas batter or batting allrounder, and an overseas fast bowler as back-up for Trent Boult.
Current squad: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan
Who can be Trent Boult’s back-up for Rajasthan Royals?•Associated Press

Lucknow Super Giants

Purse available: INR 13.15 crore (USD 1.58 million approx.)
Slots left: 6 (2 overseas)

Key position to be filled: A replacement for Avesh Khan, who was traded to Rajasthan Royals; this could be an Indian allrounder, too.

Current squad: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal

International players will have a couple of windows to appear in the tournament this season

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Sep-2022Meg Lanning will continue her break from the game as the Australian domestic season gets underway with the expanded WNCL, but a host of international players will be on display during the opening rounds which take place ahead of the WBBL.Even though they are missing Lanning, Victoria can still call on Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland from their contracted Australia names when they face South Australia while Sophie Molineux will captain the side having taken over during the winter.Related

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South Australia, meanwhile, are stocked with international names. Megan Schutt has been named captain while the side could feature Tahlia McGrath, Darcie Brown and Amanda-Jade Wellington.New South Wales will be captained by Alyssa Healy who will be joined by Ash Gardner against Queensland at North Sydney Oval. Others with international experience include Hannah Darlington and Erin Burns, while pace bowler Maitlan Brown has featured in squads without yet making a debut.

Opening WNCL fixtures

September 23 SA vs VIC, Karen Rolton Oval; WA vs ACT, WACA; NSW vs QLD, North Sydney

September 25 SA vs VIC, Karen Rolton Oval, WA vs ACT, WACA; NSW vs QLD, North Sydney

September 30 NSW vs WA, North Sydney

October 1 QLD vs ACT, Bill Pippen Oval

October 2 NSW vs WA, North Sydney

October 3 QLD vs ACT, Bill Pippen Oval

October 4 VIC vs TAS, Junction Oval

October 6 VIC vs TAS, Junction Oval

Queensland will be captained by Jess Jonassen and their squad features Grace Harris who was a key part of the Commonwealth Games success. Georgia Redmayne has been a regular reserve player for Australia.Western Australia will be able to call on Beth Mooney, who made the big off-season move by switching from Queensland, and breakout bowling star Alana King. Their first opponents, ACT, are the only side without an Australia-listed player.Tasmania, who begin their title defence next month, have Nicola Carey as a current Australia representative while Heather Graham has also featured in recent squads.From the players in Australia’s contracts list announced earlier this year, Rachael Haynes won’t feature having announced her retirement along with the Victoria pair of Tayla Vlaeminck (foot) and Georgia Wareham (ACL) who remain long-term injuries.The WNCL has increased to a 12-game tournament this season with each side playing each other twice before the final. The competition begins on Friday with six sides in action with the fixtures repeated on Sunday. Tasmania and South Australia will play twice in these opening rounds while the other teams have four games.The tournament then resumes in mid-December when Australia will be in India for T20Is, but there should be another opportunity for those players to appear after Christmas before the visit of Pakistan in January. The latter part takes place in February when the T20 World Cup is on in South Africa.

He says it will be “extremely disconcerting” if his candidature was rejected due to reasons other than “my incompetency as a coach”

PTI15-May-2021India Women’s outgoing head coach WV Raman has alleged that a “smear campaign” against him has gained unwarranted traction and he has urged the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to stop it. In an email that Raman also sent to the National Cricket Academy head Rahul Dravid, he wrote it will be “extremely disconcerting” if his candidature was rejected due to reasons other than “my incompetency as a coach”.Raman was not retained as the head coach of the senior women’s team by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) which picked Ramesh Powar for the job.”I presume you might have been told different views about my style of functioning and work ethic,” Raman wrote. “Whether those views conveyed to the officials of the BCCI had any impact on my candidature is of no consequence now.Related

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“What is important is that the smear campaign seems to have gained some unwarranted traction with some BCCI officials which needs to be halted permanently. I am prepared to give an explanation should you or any of the office bearers require it.”Raman said there was no argument if his application was rejected because of “incompetency” as a coach, but he expressed his concern for the involvement of other reasons behind it.”If I were to be rejected due to my incompetency as a coach, there is no argument on a judgment call at all,” he wrote. “But what will be extremely disconcerting is if my candidature was rejected due to any other reasons. Especially if it was due to allegations from people who were more focused on achieving their personal objectives at the expense of the overall hygiene and welfare of the Indian women’s team and the pride of the country.”While Raman’s letter did not name anyone, it is understood that he was writing about the star culture that prevails in the team, which he said is probably doing more harm than good.”If some people in the system have been highly accommodative to the extent of being seemingly obsequious to an accomplished performer for years on end – and if that performer feels constrained to adhere to the culture – then I would leave it to you to decide if the coach was asking for too much.”In a coaching career spanning 20 years, I have always created a culture in which the team always comes first and insisted on no individual overriding either the game or the team.”He said “paying heed to only one individual’s views while disregarding everyone else’s over a long period of time has resulted in gaping holes in the process and the system”.”The time has come for you two accomplished former legends to salvage women’s cricket, falling which things could gather momentum in the wrong direction. I have some suggestions that might help in the improvement of women’s cricket. I will be delighted to share those if you are interested.”

The Australia captain looked set for a maiden Test ton until he was given out on review

Daniel Brettig 29-Dec-2019Tim Paine’s first innings lbw verdict was shown to be correct by a narrow margin on HawkEye as well as the VirtualEye ball-tracking used by the umpires to make the decision.While VirtualEye’s ball-tracking is used by the host broadcaster Fox Cricket, the rival Seven network has HawkEye ball-tracking in place for analytical use. Both technologies showed Paine was stuck in line to ensure it would not be “umpire’s call” and therefore not out, after Neil Wagner’s initial appeal was turned down.Paine was visibly frustrated, but it appears that the decision was a case of fine margins rather than outright errors on the part of the technology or its operators. Ian Taylor, the chief executive of VirtualEye, had extended an invitation to Paine to watch the decision in detail, but Paine hadn’t yet accepted the offer.”I did read this morning that I’ve got an invite, so I might take it up at some stage, but I’m not too interested,” Paine said after Australia’s 247-run win in the Boxing Day Test that helped seal the series with one Test to play. “It is what it is, sometimes you get a bit frustrated, today we might’ve got one that went our way. So that’s how it works.”You’d hope it would be spot on, not trying to get it more precise. I think it would be nice across all Test matches to have the same technology in place for every Test in the Test Championship, we’ll see what happens.”HawkEye is the ball-tracker used by the majority of cricket-playing nations, and is also in place for the Big Bash League, where Seven is the host broadcaster for the majority of games rather than Fox Cricket. However there is presently no use of a decision review system in the BBL, meaning that VirtualEye is the only ball-tracker on show in matches in Australia when the time comes for umpires to make decision and players to review them.Paine, who has signed a deal with Seven to commentate on the BBL in the new year, said he was more likely to look closer at the technology when he begins that stint.”It’s certainly got its good points, there’s just some ironing out at times to be done,” Paine said. “But that’s only my opinion, I know they’re trying to get it as precise as they’re possibly can, but I think as an aid to help the umpires get the correct decision I think its good. I’m actually doing a bit of commentary after the Test so I’ll have plenty of time to sneak in then maybe.”On the final day of the MCG Test, the Australians were beneficiaries of another tight call when New Zealand captain Kane Williamson was given out lbw by Marais Erasmus. VirtualEye showed the delivery from James Pattinson would’ve just grazed leg stump, enough for the decision to be upheld.”Obviously it’s not 100% accurate and I think they’re always looking to try and improve that,” Williamson said. “You’d like to think overall that the technology does increase the amount of right decisions, whether you feel like you’re unlucky or not, you pretty much have to look within and try and play it better and try and learn and just keep improving. That’s the focus for me, and you just need to move on.”

Left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel has been added to the New Zealand ODI squad along with George Worker and Lockie Ferguson

ESPNcricinfo staff06-Nov-2018Corey Anderson has been ruled out of the one-day series against Pakistan while legspinner Todd Astle is doubtful as injuries trouble New Zealand in the UAE.Anderson is heading home with a heel problem which kept him out of the final T20I and Astle has picked up a knee “irritation” and is certainly out of the first ODI, with his participation in the rest of the series in doubt. Astle is also part of the Test squad for the three-match series.Left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel, who made his T20I debut in Abu Dhabi, has been added to the one-day squad to cover for Astle. Batsman George Worker and fast bowler Lockie Ferguson have also been added to the group to fill the vacant spots left when the squad was originally selected.

New Zealand ODI squad

Kane Williamson, Todd Astle, Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Colin Munro, Henry Nicholls, Ajaz Patel, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, BJ Watling, George Worker

“Todd’s made good progress over the past couple of days and with his involvement in both the ODI and Test squads; we’re keen to give him every chance to be right,” said New Zealand coach Gary Stead. “It does present another opportunity for Ajaz. He’s impressed us during the UAE tour so far and we have full confidence he can do a job for this team in the 50-over format.”For Anderson there will be frustration that his return to the ODI set-up for the first time since the 2017 Champions Trophy has been aborted. He has endured a lengthy recovery from back problems and recently announced he would be focusing purely on white-ball cricket ahead of the World Cup. He had started to increase his bowling workloads during the New Zealand A series in the UAE last month but wasn’t used with the ball in the T20Is.His next chance for an ODI return will now be the series against Sri Lanka which starts on January 3.Trent Boult and Matt Henry also come into the squad for the one-day series having not been part of the T20Is meaning New Zealand have a strong selection of pace bowlers.Worker, who made his ODI debut in 2015 but has only played seven matches, will be vying for the berth at the top of order created by Martin Guptill’s absence.

Karn Sharma took his second five-for in as many matches for India Red, who are now through to the final

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Sep-2017
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A century from Deepak Hooda, and lower-order fireworks from Jaydev Unadkat and Bharghav Bhatt, ensured India Blue took first-innings points from a drawn match against India Red in Kanpur. Hooda’s 174-ball 133 was the seventh hundred of his first-class career.India Red, who took one point from this game to add to the six they picked up by beating India Green, are through to the final. India Blue and India Green will meet in the last of the round-robin matches, which begins on Tuesday.A rain-hit third day, on which only 4.4 overs had been possible, had diminished any chance of a decisive result, but the question of which team would get three points remained to be resolved when Saturday dawned. Responding to India Red’s 383, India Blue were 151 behind with seven wickets in hand, with Hanuma Vihari at the crease on 88 and Hooda on 37.Vihari fell soon after reaching his hundred, bowled by Basil Thampi, and Chama Milind had Ishan Kishan caught behind 3.3 overs later to leave India Blue 300 for 5. Hooda needed help from the lower order, and it arrived in the form of Unadkat, who smashed 57 off 53 balls (10×4, 1×6), the pair putting on 96 off 101 balls to take India Blue into the lead.Both fell in the space of five balls, but India Blue weren’t quite done yet, as Bhatt (33 off 26 balls, with four sixes) went after the bowling and stretched their total to an eventual 444. The legspinner Karn Sharma took the last four wickets to finish with figures of 5 for 94 and take his tournament tally to 15 wickets in two matches.There wasn’t a whole lot of time left in the match, and India Red made 133 for 5 in 35 overs in that time, Rishabh Pant top-scoring with a 23-ball 46.

Sri Lanka’s spinners dragged their side back into the contest after their miserable first-innings 117 as Rangana Herath and Lakshan Sandakan limited Australia’s lead to 86 on the second day of the Pallekele Test

The Report by Brydon Coverdale27-Jul-2016
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