Contrary to what seems to be the popular belief that a 10 team IPL will increase the gap between Top 3-4 teams and others due to player quality, I believe it's the quality of think tanks that will make a bigger difference. You need to look at a PBKS or SRH and see for yourself.
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Even DC, one of the successful teams in the last 2-3 seasons, haven't been great with their OS buys. Also, have a look at the players who are on the bench. SRK, Porel, Umesh, Ishant, Mishra, Gowtham, Jagadeeshan, M Ashwin, V Vinod, Sarfaraz, Markande etc can be good additions
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Then look at OS players who franchises miss out on picking because of their Aussie bias. I believe that two new teams will help us in seeing more individual talent for sure, but if it translates to more competitive cricket or not, will depend totally on who the two new franchises
get on board in their management. What also should be kept in mind that the two new franchises will also have a lot of case studies from the success & failures of the 8 existing teams. So if they put their brains to it, in some ways they can also hurt the new franchises.
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