IPL 2018: Team wise players worth the Right to Match (RTM) Cards
While the directly retained players' list of the various franchises was announced on January 4, it's yet to be seen how each team utilises their remaining RTMs on the day of the auction.
Mumbai Indians
Mumbai Indians (MI) have always boasted of a remarkably balanced squad and they seem to be aiming at maintaining that. MI’s choices of direct retention were pretty orthodox as they chose to keep their constant skipper, Rohit Sharma, feisty pacer, Jasprit Bumrah and the talented young all-rounder, Hardik Pandya.
RTMs remaining: 2
The predicament for Mumbai is that they cannot retain any capped Indian players, considering they’ve reached their quota of 3 capped Indian players.
Possible RTM usage:
Krunal Pandya: Elder brother to the sensation Hardik, Krunal will be an automatic choice for an RTM, owing to his impressive show with both the bat and the ball in IPL 2017. Senior Pandya smashed 243 runs in 13 matches, along with 10 scalps at an economy of 6.82.
Jos Buttler: English batsman-keeper, Jos Buttler will be worth using an RTM for, considering he accumulated 272 runs in 10 IPL 2017 matches, and can also serve as a backup wicketkeeper.
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