Eve of first Ashes and I am more excited than a 6 year old at Xmas. Looking at the 12, I assume Stokes is bowling and if so who are the bowlers for the Gabba? I have my thoughts but I am sure yours will be 100 times more informed
I know you have touched upon this quite a bit during the tournament, but if you can please elaborate further on how teams batting 1st could do more during the T20 World Cup ..
I was curious what the retention rules are for The Hundred? How many players are each team allowed to keep? I presume players can ask for / be retained at a different price bracket to last year? Can you retain players who came in as injury/covid replacements, just the original drafted players, just the players who actually played last season or a mix of all? When is the deadline? And on a personal note, are you working with Birmingham again? Thanks!
Great work with the Tigers so far!!! My question, though time-consuming is purely one of recruitment. In terms of upside, we have seen teams like MI invest in players like Suryakumar, Kishan, Bumrah, the Pandyas, only to be released in the auctions. In a country like India, where there are 25+ teams in SMAT etc, how do you go about recruitment to identify gems like MI does
In recent times, there has been an increased demand for the "pace bowling + finisher" skill set in the IPL. IPL teams tend to overspend on 'known' players such as Stoinis, Christian, Russell, Bravo etc, rather than someone like a Cutting, Howell, Gregory etc, who are pretty descent with the ball and have higher boundary percentages. How do you go about recruiting players who tend to go under the radar even with brilliant performances? And, in IPL, is the scouting to blame for not identifying talent or just the love for big names? Also, how much does recency bias work in favour of auction strategy since BBL happens before every IPl auction, and other great tourneys like the Blast and the Hundred go without potential player reward?
There’s been lots of talk about Australian wicket keepers in the last week or so and lots of it has been focused on the fact that Tim Paine is viewed as the best wicket keeper although he isn’t the best batter. Would you say there is an easy way to measure how good a wicket keeper is because it always seems like it’s purely a visual thing with no stats behind it when someone talks about how good a keeper is (Ben Foakes for example). Could you use maybe the amount of drops, missed stumpings and byes conceded by a wicket keeper I think this would be a flawed metric though. Interested to hear any thoughts you have on a better way or measuring the quality of a keeper?
On the IPL front, with the exciting draft picks coming up I would like to hear your opinion on whom RCB pick as their captain given a choice that they are able to pick their first and second choice options? Also I feel that Kohli while being a marquee player for RCB, doe not necessarily make it to every XI now that he is not captain. What do you feel about that?
Hi Dan - I hope you are having a good time in my second Home - Abu Dhabi. I follow the Cricket Podcast and am active on Patreon with Jack.Do miss having you over there. My question for your revolves around the various formats that are floating around now. Test, One Day, T20 and now T10. Do you think Cricket can accomodate all these formats without it becoming an overkill? Are we now reaching , dare I say - Cricket saturation? Is the multi-format player a dead concept? Do we now need to spin off T10 and maybe even the 100 into a separate sport by itself?
Do you think T10 could be a good warmup for a T20 World Cup? Never thought about it until recently, but in a session you could have 2 games and a good way for players to hone skills. Death bowling and attacking batting
Hi Dan
Eve of first Ashes and I am more excited than a 6 year old at Xmas. Looking at the 12, I assume Stokes is bowling and if so who are the bowlers for the Gabba? I have my thoughts but I am sure yours will be 100 times more informed
Hi Dan,
Big fan of your work!
I know you have touched upon this quite a bit during the tournament, but if you can please elaborate further on how teams batting 1st could do more during the T20 World Cup ..
What are your thoughts on Australia’s next test wicket keeper?
I was curious what the retention rules are for The Hundred? How many players are each team allowed to keep? I presume players can ask for / be retained at a different price bracket to last year? Can you retain players who came in as injury/covid replacements, just the original drafted players, just the players who actually played last season or a mix of all? When is the deadline? And on a personal note, are you working with Birmingham again? Thanks!
Hi Dan,
Great work with the Tigers so far!!! My question, though time-consuming is purely one of recruitment. In terms of upside, we have seen teams like MI invest in players like Suryakumar, Kishan, Bumrah, the Pandyas, only to be released in the auctions. In a country like India, where there are 25+ teams in SMAT etc, how do you go about recruitment to identify gems like MI does
Hi Dan,
In recent times, there has been an increased demand for the "pace bowling + finisher" skill set in the IPL. IPL teams tend to overspend on 'known' players such as Stoinis, Christian, Russell, Bravo etc, rather than someone like a Cutting, Howell, Gregory etc, who are pretty descent with the ball and have higher boundary percentages. How do you go about recruiting players who tend to go under the radar even with brilliant performances? And, in IPL, is the scouting to blame for not identifying talent or just the love for big names? Also, how much does recency bias work in favour of auction strategy since BBL happens before every IPl auction, and other great tourneys like the Blast and the Hundred go without potential player reward?
Hi Dan,
There’s been lots of talk about Australian wicket keepers in the last week or so and lots of it has been focused on the fact that Tim Paine is viewed as the best wicket keeper although he isn’t the best batter. Would you say there is an easy way to measure how good a wicket keeper is because it always seems like it’s purely a visual thing with no stats behind it when someone talks about how good a keeper is (Ben Foakes for example). Could you use maybe the amount of drops, missed stumpings and byes conceded by a wicket keeper I think this would be a flawed metric though. Interested to hear any thoughts you have on a better way or measuring the quality of a keeper?
Thanks,
Zac
On the IPL front, with the exciting draft picks coming up I would like to hear your opinion on whom RCB pick as their captain given a choice that they are able to pick their first and second choice options? Also I feel that Kohli while being a marquee player for RCB, doe not necessarily make it to every XI now that he is not captain. What do you feel about that?
Hi Dan - I hope you are having a good time in my second Home - Abu Dhabi. I follow the Cricket Podcast and am active on Patreon with Jack.Do miss having you over there. My question for your revolves around the various formats that are floating around now. Test, One Day, T20 and now T10. Do you think Cricket can accomodate all these formats without it becoming an overkill? Are we now reaching , dare I say - Cricket saturation? Is the multi-format player a dead concept? Do we now need to spin off T10 and maybe even the 100 into a separate sport by itself?
Warner was player of the tournament at the T20 World Cup Do you think a team will pick him up in the next IPL Auction?
Can you review PSL 6, what went wrong for whom & when? PSL 7 Draft is lined up so suggest what could be done to yield better results?
Do you think T10 could be a good warmup for a T20 World Cup? Never thought about it until recently, but in a session you could have 2 games and a good way for players to hone skills. Death bowling and attacking batting