Yuva Premier League Team owners, Team strategy, Bidding and much more.
To quench the thirst of cricket in the wake of Mumbai’s summer heat, Yuva Premiere League (YPL) has made its way to the middle, starting 22nd April. The YPL follows the IPL model when it comes to the auctioning of players and their retention. Every team is given a corpus of Rs.10 crore (virtual money) which is used to buy players. There is a systematic bidding that takes place for every player and the team that bids the highest gets the player. YPL was a big hit last year. This year there are eight teams that will be locking horns against each other to win the coveted YPL title. Here is a quick insight into the teams of YPL:
Badshah: Amit Jain is one of the owners of the team. This year they have retained one of the best performers of last season, Aditya Dagga. Dagga was bought for Rs.30 lakhs last year and this year he was worth Rs.35 lakhs. The other players to watch out for in Badshah are Aniket Patil and Sahyog. Patil is a genuine all-rounder who is purchased for a whopping Rs.2.7 crore, while Sahyog, a right arm medium pace bowler was valued at Rs.1.7 crore. This year the team would like to play to their strengths, which means that they will make full use of their fast bowlers, who will generate lot of pace and bounce from the wicket. “Khiladi is the team that can give us a tough competition, says Amit Jain.
Baazigar: Rohit Agarwal is the happy owner of the winning team of the last year; Baazigar. “This year as well we have a balanced team and we hope to defend our YPL title”, averred Rohit. Mohit Padwal and Shubham Tare, both of them being fantastic all-rounders were retained for a combined sum of Rs.2.8 crore. Rishabh Talwar, who is the new addition to the Baazigar outfit will be a player to watch out for. Talwar is quick with the ball and more than decent with the bat. “We have done our home-work well and have studied each player carefully”, added Agarwal.
Dabbangg: Finishing off at no.3 position last year, Dabbangg owner Girish Ahuja is confident of his team’s performance ahead of this year’s YPL. Pallav Bansal and Mishra ji are the two players that have been retained by the team for a decent amount of Rs.30 lakhs and Rs.40 lakhs respectively. Both these players are medium pace bowlers. Saurabh Gupta, who was the Man of the Series last year, will serve Dabbangg this year. Gupta, who is worth a mammoth sum of Rs.2.8 crore, is a perfect all-rounder that any team would like to have. He picked up 10 wickets and scored tons of runs last season.
“This year we have made a strategic auction, keeping in mind team composition, which will help us to perform better”, reiterated Girish Ahuja, one of the owners of team.
Sikanders: Mr.Avadhani is one of the owners of the team. Sikanders have retained two players; Kashyap, all-rounder and Amogh, a left arm medium pace bowlers. Both these players were retained at a combined cost of Rs.3.2 crore. “The other teams need to watch for Rajeev, who is a southpaw and Paresh, a right hand batsman, who if gets going can tear apart any bowling attack”, said Avadhani. According to the owner, last year champions; Baazigar is the toughest team to beat.
Khiladis: “Our team is a fresh looking one as we have not retained any of the players, instead, the three of us, who are the owners of Khiladis will be on the field to play”, exclaimed Rajesh Ahuja, one of the owners. Milind and Daniel are the two players to watch out for. They are genuine all-rounders and match winners in true sense. Milind was bought for Rs.1.6 crore, while Daniel, who is the most expensive player in the team was purchased at a daunting amount of Rs.1.7 crore. The winners of YPL 2014, Khiladis will look to come out all guns blazing in this year’s YPL.
YPL starts from 22 April 2016 at Whispering Palms, Kandivali Lokhandwala.
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