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IPL Auction notes: How teams embraced well-laid plans and mindful spending to assemble strong squads | Cricket News

IPL Auction notes: How teams embraced well-laid plans and mindful spending to assemble strong squads | Cricket News

IPL Auction 2025: Beyond a 17-year-old tournament witnessing a 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi become a crorepati and Ambala born Gurjapneet Singh who found a home at Tamil Nadu now donning the famous yellow jersey, the two-day IPL mega auctions saw teams tussle for the best talents and assemble a strong squad. In the past, franchises have come out of the auction table with plenty of unanswered questions and imbalanced squads. But at Jeddah they came up with well-laid plans and put together evenly matched squads on paper. The two most successful franchises with five titles each, they remained in total control, even as others scrambled around. Having retained their Indian core, Mumbai Indians as usual went big for an overseas pacer in Trent Boult and a new ball bowler in Deepak Chahar. For the rest, they relied on their scouting team, which helped them snap Ryan Rickelton and uncapped Kiwi Bevan-John Jacobs to lend lower-order firepower. In Will Jacks, they got their overseas top-order bat and finished another auction without going big on a spinner. Chennai …

IPL Mega Auction: In Rishabh Pant, franchises have a chance to acquire their own MS Dhoni | Cricket News

IPL Mega Auction: In Rishabh Pant, franchises have a chance to acquire their own MS Dhoni | Cricket News

With a playful smile, on a chilly December Delhi evening at the start of his career, Rishabh Pant admitted that the MS Dhoni comparisons annoyed him. “When I hear this, I sometimes feel people are making fun of me. He is my idol and I feel happy when people compare me with Mahi bhai. But I am just a kid, and feel uncomfortable,” he would say. Nearly a decade later, the Dhoni shadow not only stalks him, but has assumed an even thicker form. So much so that the world sees Dhoni in Pant. There is the disarming backstory of migration, from a small town in Uttarakhand (both) to Ranchi and Delhi. Their batting is irresistibly unorthodox. For Dhoni’s helicopter whir, Pant has the falling flick. They keep wicket in pragmatic rather than orthodox manners. If Dhoni epitomised the modern batsman and the modern game, Pant symbolises the post-modern batsman and the post-modern game. Both smile winsomely, presenting a cheerful demeanour, endearing them to the masses, oozing boy-next-door charms. Their swashbuckling batting have rung in …