u/Fallen_Man7

GT match single denied, Srh match KL missed runout of Abhishek at 50 and dropped by rana at 86 eventually scored 140, Csk match Mahtre run out miss at 9 by KL eventually scored 56, Samson catch drop at 52 by Nissabka eventually scored 115, Pbks match Shreyas dropped at 28 and 35 by Karun twice. Not even one spectacular catch while every team pulled many half chances and that too many against us.

Did people consider all factors or just see names and remember their peak and say yeah they have the best team.

KL Rahul is our best batter. Stubbs became Anchor that makes Ashutosh as lone finisher in team when everybody tries to anchor. Rizvi after 10 ball, before 10 balls is different but he doesn't survive 10 balls. Nitish played 2 matches and called it a day. Axar forgot batting like last year how he forgot bowling. Pathum is just glorified version of Porel who takes Miller spot. Starc missed 8 matches and he doesn't look that letgan to be honest especially considering we have 0 bowling plans. With plans he might be lethal. Same goes to Ngidi but atleast he's economical. Kuldeep played good last season starting few matches and forget bowling after that. Honestly whoever rated Mukesh, Nattu who haven't performed in years and thought they will be peak and rated us high. Chances or not, Vipraj is bits and pieces player who isn't good with ball or bat. Potential is different performance is different, his performance has dropped a lot since last IPL even on domestic tournaments. Since last season we have one of the worst fielding efficiency Honestly who thought this team would be one of the contenders and how exactly we will thrive in this IPL.

Forgot all this. Did the saw our best coaching department "HEMANG BADANI and MUNAF PATEL" who has 0 plans in both batting and bowling. Who in the right mind thought we were good team on paper. Do they not see players in Rcb, Pbks, Mi, Srh (kinda debatable) had best teams on paper. Remaining all are most likely same level while GT had best bowling lineup too and best top 3. That's enough to rate them above us. People just bring "Best Team on Paper" thing like we really are. Stop this bs.

Miller had incredibke record against RR btw and our best fielder. And what exactly Nissanka proved apart from those 3 games? Why not Porel what literally saved from generational embarrassment. What are we doing ?

There's absolutely no need to bring back Nissanka, and all Sahil, Porel, Miller could play

Since last year our highest PP score in 200+ chases is 72 (in the 5th match vs Mi where we witnessed biggest choke) and we were put to chase 6 times. Only managed to chase once because of Vipraj and Ashutosh brilliance in 1st match of 2025 vs Lsg.