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It seems that the time flew pretty soon and we are not far away to witness some amazing T20 cricket matches. The Indian Premier League 2021 is starting next week and we are back with our predicted Playing 11 for all the teams:

 

Rajasthan Royals

 

  1. Jos Buttler (WK)
  2. Ben Stokes
  3. Sanju Samson (C)
  4. Shivam Dube
  5. Riyan Parag
  6. Rahul Tewatia
  7. Chris Morris
  8. Shreyas Gopal / Mayank
  9. Andrew Tye
  10. Jaydev Unadkat
  11. Kartik Tyagi

Kolkata Knight Riders

 

  1. Shubhman Gill
  2. Tim Siefert
  3. Nitish Rana
  4. Eoin Morgan (C)
  5. Dinesh Karthik (WK)
  6. Andre Russell
  7. Pat Cummins
  8. Harbhajan Singh
  9. Shivam Mavi
  10. Prasidh Krishna
  11. Varun Chakravarthy

 

Delhi Capitals

 

  1. Prithvi Shaw
  2. Shikhar Dhawan
  3. Ajinkya Rahane
  4. Steven Smith
  5. Rishabh Pant (C) (WK)
  6. Marcus Stoinis
  7. Axar Patel
  8. Ravichandran Ashwin
  9. Kagiso Rabada
  10. Anrich Nortje
  11. Ishant Sharma

 

Punjab Kings

 

  1. KL Rahul (C) (WK)
  2. Chris Gayle
  3. Dawid Malan
  4. Mayank Agrawal
  5. Nicholas Pooran
  6. Deepak Hooda
  7. Jhye Richardson
  8. Mohammad Shami
  9. Murugan Ashwin
  10. Ravi Bishnoi
  11. Arshdeep Singh

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore

 

  1. Devdutt Padikkal
  2. Virat Kohli (C)
  3. Glenn Maxwell
  4. AB Devillers
  5. Mohammad Azheruddin (WK)
  6. Daniel Sams
  7. Washington Sundar
  8. Kyle Jamieson
  9. Navdeep Saini
  10. Mohammad Siraj
  11. Yuzvendra Chahal

 

Sunrisers Hyderabad

 

  1. Jason Roy
  2. Jonny Bairstow (WK)
  3. David Warner (C)
  4. Manish Pandey
  5. Vijay Shankar
  6. Kedar Jadhav
  7. Rashid Khan
  8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
  9. Shahbaz Nadeem
  10. Sandeep Sharma
  11. T Natarajan

 

Mumbai Indians

 

  1. Quinton De Kock / Lynn
  2. Rohit Sharma (C)
  3. Suryakumar Yadav
  4. Ishan Kishan (WK)
  5. Kieron Pollard
  6. Hardik Panya
  7. Krunal Pandya
  8. Nathan Coulter Nile
  9. Rahul Chahar
  10. Trent Boult
  11. Jasprit Bumrah

 

Chennai Super Kings

 

  1. Cheteshwar Pujara / Ruturaj
  2. Moeen Ali
  3. Suresh Raina
  4. Faf Du Plessis
  5. MS Dhoni (C) (WK)
  6. Ambati Rayudu
  7. Ravindra Jadeja
  8. Sam Curran
  9. Shardul Thakur
  10. Deepak Chahar
  11. DJ Bravo / Tahir

 

Written by Harshit Aggarwal (@CricketChess29 / @harshitaggarwalofficial)

 

Note: The selection of Jaydev Unadkat in the predicted playing XI of Rajasthan Royals is the independent view or perspective of the author and the person posting is not endorsing or responsible for the opinion 😛

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Do you love an IPL team because it has your favourite player in the team? Alternatively, is it because it has your favourite player as captain? Or is it because it has your favourite players as the coach? Do you support an IPL team because it belongs to your city? Or do you support a team because the owner of that team is your inspiration?

There could be so many other reasons for supporting the IPL team of your choice.

The cricket fans generally prefer a team that has strongest international players in their team. Some of them chose their team because of their national cricket team captains. Let us have a look at social media to understand which team has the most number of fans on the internet. This will also give an idea to find out the most popular IPL team.

On Facebook, the two times IPL champion, Kolkata Knight Riders page has the most number of likes with more than 16 million people following the team. The second in the list is Mumbai Indians with more than 12 million likes on Facebook. Though Mumbai Indians have one extra IPL trophy as compared to Kolkata Knight Riders, they are behind KKR regarding popularity on Facebook. One of the reasons behind their popularity might be because of superstar Shah Rukh Khan who is famous globally. The third and fourth teams concerning most numbers of Facebook likes are Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore with more than 11 million and 9 million fans respectively.

The situation is bit twisted when it comes to Twitter. Here, Mumbai Indians has 4.59 million followers and is ahead of Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders who have 3.86 million and 3.72 million followers on this social media platform.

On Instagram, Mumbai Indians is again ahead of all other teams. MI has 1.5 million followers followed by Royal Challengers Bangalore who has 1.4 million followers.

The interesting thing to note here is that Mumbai has an estimated population of 18.41 million people and it is least if compared to any other IPL playing states. Whether it is because of the strong players in the team or because of the most number of IPL trophies or because of the owners that have the most money, this team is certainly the most popular team.

Below is the table depicting the overall impact of IPL teams on different social media platforms.

IPL TeamFacebookTwitterInstagramAverage
Mumbai Indians
12,771,5714.59M1.5M6.29M
Kolkata Knight Riders
16,103,4643.72M476K6.77M
Chennai Super Kings11,817,0443.86M405K5.36M
Royal Challengers Bangalore9,226,6942.92M1.4M4.52M
Kings XI Punjab8,397,4881.71M515K3.54M
Sunrisers Hyderabad5,752,9511.78 M395K2.64M
Delhi Daredevils4,454,6411.13M318K1.97M
Rajasthan Royals3,683,632963 K184K1.61M

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Along with the captain, the team coach is equally responsible and crucial for the performance of a cricket team. The coach carves a winning path for the team and is equally involved with the captain in choosing the best eleven players for a match. Let us have a look at the coaches of the IPL 2018 teams and their hold on the teams.

Shane Warne (Rajasthan Royals) 

Rajasthan Royals have made a comeback in 2018 IPL after being suspended for couple of years and brought Shane Warne as their mentor. He played four IPL seasons from 2008 to 2011 with team as the captain and coach and he was highly successful throughout his career. His extra ordinary leadership skills helped his unpopular average team to finish the first edition of IPL as the winners.

Ricky Ponting (Delhi Daredevils) 

Former Australian captain and three- time World Cup winner is appointed as the head coach of Delhi Daredevils franchise for this IPL season. He replaced Rahul Dravid who stepped down due to BCCI's conflict of interest policy. Ponting has previously coached Mumbai Indians for two seasons out of which they won the title in 2015.

Mahela Jayawardene (Mumbai Indians) 

He became the head coach of Mumbai Indians last year and replaced Ricky Ponting. However, Mumbai Indians have multiple coaches in their team for every skill; Lasith Malinga along with Shane Bond as bowling coach, Robin Singh as bowling coach and newly appointed fielding coach James Pemment replacing Jonty Rhodes but the credit also goes to the head coach for winning the title last year.

Stephen Fleming (Chennai Super Kings) 

He was a part of Chennai Super Kings in first IPL where the team became the runner up. He became the team coach in 2009 after retiring as a player. Under his leadership, CSK won the IPL title twice, both in 2010 and 2011 along with winning the Champions League T20 in 2010 and 2014. This year, CSK has appointed him as their head after coming back from two-year suspension. Along with Fleming, Michael Hussey is appointed as their batting coach. The equation between Dhoni and Fleming is quite good, as both the captain and coach are known for their cool-headed nature.

Brad Hodge (Kings XI Punjab)

 This year, Kings XI Punjab appointed Hodge as their head coach and Virender Sehwag as Director - Cricket Operations and team mentor. From last two seasons, Hodge was previously the head coach of Gujarat Lions. Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad will be their bowling coach.

Jacques Kallis (Kolkata Knight Riders) 

He was appointed as the head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders before the start of IPL 2016 season. He had been associated with the team after replacing previous head coach Trevor Bayliss. Kallis was also the batting consultant of KKR for 2015 IPL season. Previously, he also played an important role for Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012 and made his team win the trophy by scoring 407 runs and taking 15 wickets.

Tom Moody (Sunrisers Hyderabad) 

In the first two season of IPL, he coached Kings XI Punjab and joined Sunrisers Hyderabad as the coach in 2013. SRH finished in the top four that season. Under Moody's guidance, SRH won the IPL trophy in 2016 . In 2017, SRH reached to playoffs, but lost to Kolkata Knight Riders in the eliminator. He has also coached Sri Lanka during the 2007 World Cup finals.

Daniel Vettori (Royal Challengers Bangalore) 

RCB retained former New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori as their head coach, who has been coaching RCB since 2014 IPL season. Along with him, Gary Kirsten has been appointed as the batting coach and Ashish Nehra as the bowling coach. Additionally, they both will also play the role of mentor for the team.

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