IPL Fantasy Faceoff

MI win the toss and elect to bowl. Line ups are released and Santner is missing. Shit. Interesting Deepak Chahar is absent too. The butterfly effect of not being confident enough to include Finn Allen in my team in the first place has had a horrid result. Still I'll be transferring out Krunal and bringing in Tilak Varma after much flip flopping. After all this hassle I hope Tilak has a good game. I will be taking Allen on the second team however. KKR will need to exceed 200 by a margin to win as like SRH they have a weak bowling department. Final Team: Just 3 players without Santner, Green, Tilak and Varun.

It was a very eventful, quite unexpected game, which is pretty expected for the first game. Dodged the bullets of Abhishek, Head, Salt and others but also hit by some players I missed. Duffy was super impressive, Nischal had him and it'll be one of my regrets. The IW didn't play out as planned and I think we were definitely expecting more points than that, though I didn't play it. ISHAN WAS INCREDIBLE very glad he was my captain, just a great call. Salil got the opportunity with plenty of overs to spare but had nothing to show for it. I don't even want to talk about how poorly Pandya delivered. Dubey took a wicket and for his price I'm happy with that. But Kohli... Everyone knows his greatness but I just couldn't get him to fit at his price and that was a big mistake. Rough start hope it goes better from here.

Not going to be many changes as I already have 3 players, Cameron, Varun and Santner. I was thinking whether make a change at all and figured I would but just 1. Krunal, man you have got to go... And if you remove anyone it should be an RCB player as they don't have a game for 9 matches. I had 10cr to spend and my options included Boult, Rohit, Allen, Seifert, Rinku, Rickelton and others. For now I'll have Tilak I think he has the most potential of the options but as soon as the lineup releases I'll likely swap Tilak for Seifert or Allen depending on who plays as that saves me 2.5-3cr. Allen and Seifert would be great if chasing especially so if they get to open together so be on the look out for that. If you have the funds SKY and Bumrah will of course be great buys, Hardik I don't feel as good about however. Also will be curious to see if Ashwani plays because I thought he was simply great last season would like to see more of him.

I'm really quite happy overall with how the IW team went. My captain and vice captain really went crazy which is a big part of the difficulty with playing a booster. I replaced Padikkal for David as he was an IP and I wasn't sure he'd play which was just a BIG mistake scored, he scored almost an extra 100 points. A few of the other players didn't perform but other than Padikkal there were no really bad decisions. Both Sharma played subpar innings but that couldn't be controlled however the debutant A Singh took a wicket which was really nice. Don't need to discuss Krunal... Making 900 is average, 1100 is good and 1400 is amazing with the IW so very pleased with the 1237 points made placing me at 4th in our league (ofc not a fair comparison as most didn't use a boost). Good job to Nischal for taking an early lead having Virat and Duffy was pretty great for him. Thanks for reading and I'll see you after the toss.