IPL 10: Team wise players who are playing IPL for the first time

GL: Jason Roy

Gujarat Lions was the only team that did not have a specific requirement as they have specialists and all-rounders for every department. However, they opted for Jason Roy, the only overseas player apart from Chirag Suri to make it into the GL players’ list. Roy has had a good record in India, considering that he performed during the World T20 and three half-centuries in the ODI series against India.

He is among the English players who were likely to make it count this IPL and the auction so far has provided him with that. He has a career T20 strike rate of 143.88 and an average of 28.29, with four centuries. It was suprising that he remained unsold in the first round and had no bidding wars happening for him. Though one possible explanation for that is that most teams are sorted with their opening spots.

Gujarat Lions themselves have regular, impactful openers with the likes of McCullum, Finch and Dwayne Smith, the Team management would definitely look to give Roy his fair share of games to do something for the Team.