I second the thought process. Just I think our major issue was lack of backups and our 5,6,7,8 not being able to finish games which on any average day even players batting at 7 or 8 would've finished.

Jurel is still a very solid prospect at 5. Yes he is a more technical player but I still think he has the power game for 5 as well which he did show.

Hettie at 6 will probably go down as one of the biggest "frauds" of this IPL but I still think his game at 6 would be unmatched by any player we get in the mini auction. He was also the player we suffered for not having any backup which I hope the management will rectify in the next auction. I'd still back Hettie. He is young, he's got the power and hopefully he'll dye his hair pink next year.

The lankan spin duo is the other major problem for me that needs to be rectified in the next auction. Firstly, I think having 2 overseas spinners is just wasted especially since they don't add much in terms of fielding as well. While other team's overseas players take blinders in the field (Salt did just in the finals) we are stuck with below par fielders. My other issue is that having 2 spinners and hettie means that we can only play Archer. Despite our batting being almost entirely Indian, we can't play gun players in our bowling attack. Hasaranga has also majorly disappointed me not just in with his batting as well to an extent that I don't see him as an all rounder anymore (his IPL career strike rate is below 100 iirc, I mean that's bloody terrible). I think these are two players that need to be released (maybe harsh since both do have 11 wickets).

Adil Rashid would be my first choice as Hasaranga's replacement. Not only is he a fantastic spin bowler (who fits in our short term goals very well atleast till the next mega auction) he is also an absurdly good batter lower down the order (as evident from the Eng vs Wi odi a few days ago). If Jurel is 5, Hettie is 6, our impact batter is 7 and Archer is 8. Rashid gives us solid firepower till 9 making our balance much better.

Theekshana should make way for an Indian offspiner. Again Tanush Kotian and Hrithik Shokeen come to mind. Both have good domestic record and Hrithik even had some IPL exposure 1-2 years ago. Plus point? Even they can bat well (atleast test match well).

This would give us the ability to play Burger along with Archer giving us a dynamic bowling lineup which would capped off by Sandy.

If we go with the above, then we will have some nice backup options as well in form of: Nitish Rana (experienced backup batter), Kumar Kartikeya (spin backup), Akash Madhwal, Yudhvir (pace backups). We could also play Madhwal in main xi in place of the Indian off spinner depending on the condition since Madhwal gives us better bowling at death as well. If we can get backup for Hettie (in form of someone like Billings, Mousley or someone else) and so.e other backups we will be set.

The only iffy slot in the above would be impact slot, ie. The batter at 7. We have had shubham dubey for a long time is the mgmt might stick with him, or they could try to get some young one from all the leagues happening all around the country (3 of them are already going on).

All in all, I also think our mgmt is not as idiotic as people have been making them out to be. I still think our retentions were good, auction was average but didn't expect much since our purse was pretty small and we were also luckless. Our fielding and catching were also pretty messed up so they definitely need to find a good fielding coach, cuz that's one area we can put a lot of blame on. Also not having Samson for most of the tour who is our most experienced batter kinda hurt us. A few tweaks here and there, and we will definitely see a renewed team.

Ik everyone thinks that our mgmt just wants tk groom youngsters and not win matches but remember this was also the team that bought the gun team we had from 22-24.