Sunrisers Leeds and Birmingham Phoenix secured Abrar Ahmed and Usman Tariq respectively, in the latest Hundred auction [Update@Post#34]

[Cryin Out Loud]

This “WHY WHY” business seriously reminded me of

HSW?

K

 

[Sachin fan]

Lol I have a dislike for Rich liberals irrespective of the city, nothing against Abrar he deserves it, but she is trolling.

She is a very confident woman, and will be trolling many Indians which as i said above should be amusing.

Yet it's always rich conservatives who always make the world a worst place by their backing of fascist bigoted war mongerers

 

[Theanonymousone]

It seems like that is the consensus amongst Indians on PP at least.

One thing I have wondered it why these Indian owners have paid big money for these teams and rebranded them to be Indian focussed with pictures of elephants etc. There isn't enough market in England to recoup these costs. They are obviously aiming at Indian market. Do you think it is a misjudgment on their part, or they will be able to grow the 100 without Indians?

We may need to study the whole market synergies but Indian businessmen are adept at monetizing the ad revenues in general. Leave the sponsorships, IPL ad revenues are crazy like a 15-sec advertisement used to cost 4-5K USD back in 2017 when I was part of media buying. For reference, the next best thing was 60% less. UK has a very good consumer market AFAIK and there needs to be some conscious efforts to monetize the ad revenue in a better way through Brand-building.

But I also feel they may have overestimated the revenue-synergies here in different leagues. But cost-synergies are bound to come down.

Ambani, Goenka and Maran families are conglomerates and they can easily handle the upfront capital costs. Even without the Indian market, I am pretty much bullish on the cricket leagues if they can repeat what they did in IPL.

Focus to build grass-root level talent which pulps the interest of audience. This is what ECB and SA boards were looking at and it falls in line the owners vision in valuations.

 

[BouncerGuy]

GUYS, PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC ABOUT PAKISTAN PLAYERS IN THE HUNDRED LEAGUE

NO NEED TO DO INDIAN POLITCS AND BJP STUFF HERE NOW

 

[JaDed]

Yet it's always rich conservatives who always make the world a worst place by their backing of fascist bigoted war mongerers

yes, so cheers to Libertarians!

 

[BouncerGuy]

GUYS, PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC ABOUT PAKISTAN PLAYERS IN THE HUNDRED LEAGUE

NO NEED TO DO INDIAN POLITCS AND BJP STUFF HERE NOW

AGAIN

 

[BouncerGuy]

Sunrisers head coach Daniel Vettori opened up about the move to buy the Pakistan cricketer:

"He's unique in the amount of variations and a lot of, particularly domestic players, won't have seen him before."

"We came into the auction with every player available to us. As soon as this option was available, there were a number of very good spinners from international teams that were an option, but Abrar was a priority."

 

[Rajdeep]

Expected move considering who is the owner of Sun Group and the party it represents. However, SRH franchise will take a hit due to such antics. Already their X handle is suspended

 

[Rana]

Expected move considering who is the owner of Sun Group and the party it represents. However, SRH franchise will take a hit due to such antics. Already their X handle is suspended

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I thought Pakistanis according to your kind were not being picked on merit?

Ab aag kyun lag rahi hai??

 

[Rajdeep]

I thought Pakistanis according to your kind were not being picked on merit?

Ab aag kyun lag rahi hai??

Token pick to show diversity in UK. Forget about politics, on pure cricket Abrar don't get into the team. He is joke of a bowler. Had they picked Usman Tariq, atleast that would have made cricketing sense.

 

[Katwalindian]

Another very interesting angle to this too…

If Sunrisers were going to go for a mystery spinner, they could have also hinted to Ghazanfar from Afghanistan that they will be going in for him. He can do the role Abrar does (maybe not as effective), but he is a very decent bowling option. Ghazanfar pulled out of the draft the night before just like Afridi, DeQock, Narine.


This is a very interesting case study. Abrar was their prime target in this draft. They went all in for him!

Yeah eve before auctioneer finish talking his name, she pulled up the pedal and them keep bidding.......

 

[BouncerGuy]

BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla speaking:

"It is not in our domain (IPL), they have done it for some foreign league. They will have to take a call; we cannot do anything."

 

[JaDed]

Good on BCCI..let the owners and fans take their own decision outside India.

 

[Falconslions]

Kavya

She went all out for him. She kept bidding £10k every time Trent upped the bid

Abrar is going to miss the hundred as he will be selected for Pakistan's Test series.

 

[Falconslions]

This stint is going to make Abrar and Tariq better bowlers, it benefits us massively

They wont be facing quality like this in our domestic set up so better they play these leagues and learn, bring that learned knowledge to Pakistan and teach Shodas like Shabab Khan how to bowl

Not really
a lot of players are going to end up learning how to play them. Their mystery element could fade away.

 

[cricketjoshila]

So you're telling us you'll be working overtime with your dozen fake accounts on Twitter?

There is something called free media and they will do report this and politicians will pick it and use it

 

[cricketjoshila]

@cricketjoshila watching The Hundred this year:

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Don’t understand the format, so hardly watch it

 

[Rajdeep]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032325901900530099

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Sunrisers' first choice was Adil Rashid but Southern Brave outbid them for him. So then they decided to go into the overseas market and Dan Vettori, who is the Australia assistant coach had spoken to some of the Australian players and they had said that Abrar was one bowler that they had difficulty facing when they played Pakistan recently.

 

[Rana]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2032378484501463545

 

[Cover Drive Six]

Why would people want to boycott SRH?
SRH is already a Mid to bottom-tier team when it comes to fan following, commercials, and brand value.

First issue is that SRH has failed to capture local talent over the years. Only Nitish Reddy is there currently, and they even failed to pick Tilak Varma. The ownership also doesn’t connect well and appeal native in the Telugu states, unlike CSK or RCB with their regions.

The only player who had massive following across the Telugu states was David Warner. He genuinely played for SRH and even won them the cup. After Warner, they tried Williamson and made many changes. The biggest mistake was releasing Rashid Khan; after leaving SRH, he won the trophy with GT the very next year.

SRH completely revamped the team after Warner, but they lost their bowling strength and became a top-heavy batting side, similar to how RCB used to.

Even SRH is not unanimously supported by locals in both Telugu states. If you ask people there, 7 out of 10 will say they support the big-3 (RCB, CSK, and MI). Victory celebrations across AP and Telangana for RCB’s title win were bigger than anything SRH could dream of.

Please don’t boycott them. Not even 1% of IPL viewers watch this so-called The Hundred league.

 

[Cover Drive Six]

Kaavya will troll many North Indian folks as expected.. should be fun few days, Keyboard warriors of North India vs South India fighting online to keep Abrar in UK team lol..

Why only North Indians? I am a South Indian from TN. I don’t mind picking Tarique, but I am definitely not okay with picking Abrar. Anyone who disrespects our army shouldn’t be picked. However, since this league is not the IPL, they are getting carried away.

As I said earlier, people don’t need to overreact with boycott statements. SRH itself is not a very big team, and hardly anyone watches The Hundred.

 

[Major]

Sunrisers head coach Daniel Vettori opened up about the move to buy the Pakistan cricketer:

"He's unique in the amount of variations and a lot of, particularly domestic players, won't have seen him before."

"We came into the auction with every player available to us. As soon as this option was available, there were a number of very good spinners from international teams that were an option, but Abrar was a priority."

@Rana you were right. It was vittori

 

[Rana]

@Rana you were right. It was vittori

Respect to Kavya+management. They honoured their Coach's demand.

 

[Major]

Respect to Kavya+management. They honoured their Coach's demand.

And yet there is a history lesson, racism attack going on by the indians.

They sometimes forget how the real world outside of india works

 

[Rana]

And yet there is a history lesson, racism attack going on by the indians.

They sometimes forget how the real world outside of india works

On top of it, I find Shukla’s statement quite contradictory to what these people claim.

Apparently there is no lettered law in IPL that Pakistani’s cannot be picked. It’s just an unspoken rule…

But Shukla (BCCI chief) said “this is not our domain as it’s not in India, so we can’t do anything about it”.

According to the law in India, you can’t do anything about it if it happens in India too. Or does it mean they will openly break the law if something like this happens in IPL?

 

[Major]

On top of it, I find Shukla’s statement quite contradictory to what these people claim.

Apparently there is no lettered law in IPL that Pakistani’s cannot be picked. It’s just an unspoken rule…

But Shukla (BCCI chief) said “this is not our domain as it’s not in India, so we can’t do anything about it”.

According to the law in India, you can’t do anything about it if it happens in India too. Or does it mean they will openly break the law if something like this happens in IPL?

I was in India back in 2011-2012, went to the pakistani high commission one day, think it was a 23 march dinner or something like that. The same guy, Rajiv Shukla was there.
Funny how he is giving statements here right against our players being allowed to play in IPL?

Meanwhile, this guy was having dinner, enjoying his time, and he even was requesting the high commissioner to process his visa for a visit to lahore.

And this 2012, 4 years after mumbai attacks.

These guys stand for nothing.

 

[Sachin fan]

I was in India back in 2011-2012, went to the pakistani high commission one day, think it was a 23 march dinner or something like that. The same guy, Rajiv Shukla was there.
Funny how he is giving statements here right against our players being allowed to play in IPL?

Meanwhile, this guy was having dinner, enjoying his time, and he even was requesting the high commissioner to process his visa for a visit to lahore.

And this 2012, 4 years after mumbai attacks.

These guys stand for nothing.

Once again, terrorists telling victims what to do and how to protest!

I have seen shameless people but you guys take the cake

I have made this comparison before - but murderers telling victims family when and how to file police complain

Thieves telling victims they were not sad enough




No wonder entire country is in gutter with people of this mentality populating if.

 

[Major]

Once again, terrorists telling victims what to do and how to protest!

I have seen shameless people but you guys take the cake

I have made this comparison before - but murderers telling victims family when and how to file police complain

Thieves telling victims they were not sad enough




No wonder entire country is in gutter with people of this mentality populating if.

@Rana did i touch a nerve their?

 

[RexRex]

Rajiv Shukla has a reputation of being the everywhere man a.k.a a shapeshifter. I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly belongs to the lizard people, studying the people and various dynamics in India.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

@Rana did i touch a nerve their?

You definitely did. @sachinfan loves throwing the word "terrorist" around for others, but I am sure he wouldn't be able to handle it if the same kind of labeling was used against him.

 

[shah9425]

Great move by Kavya

Triggered all sanghis