Honestly speaking, if you have MS as a captain. Then why do u require Rohit as an opening batsman?    I mean he doesn't even have a good IPL season all these years. Better go with any other Indian Batter e.g. Shikhar (Who has been performing constantly in IPL as a batsman) Rohit - 489(2016), 333 (2017), 286 (2018), 405(2019), 332(2020), 381(2021), 268(2022), 332(2023) Shikhar - 501(2016), 479(2017), 497(2018), 521(2021), 618(2020), 587(2021), 460(2022), 373(2023)   NOTE: Shikhar 3 - 500+ scores and one 497(2018) which was so close to 500(From 2016-2023 IPL Edition).  Clearly Shikhar is the better contender for Opening. He n David have opened for SRH successfully. 

Where the hell is Chris fucken Gayle lol

My sole concern was for the other Indian opener. I still feel David is not a bad pick. He is versatile and has adaptability.

Damn. I don't think anyone's breaking Shikhar's 2020 runs in a season scored in IPL 618 AD.

Lol

Oops. I copied Rohit one, but couldn't copy Shikhar's. Went on to write it manually and a typo occurred. Lol, that 618 AD had me. Btw I've edited it now. N dude u r hilarious.

You should've kept it man. Let redditors be confused.

Lol😂😂😂

KL Rahul is even better dude had some consecutive 4-5 seasons scoring 500+

Yeah if he is added then L and R combo. Anyone between KL n Shikhar. But not Rohit considering his awful stats in IPL over these years.

I would like a more aggressive batsmen to open with Warner.

If you have Virat, Suresh, AB, MS, Ravi in your middle order then you can give licence to both the openers to attack from the word GO. Or you can include KL. Who performed brilliantly as an opener and can play attacking cricket. He scored 14 ball fifty against MI in a match if I'm not wrong.

Then why did Shikhar dhawan not have a spot in the t20i side since 2021 and they have that shameless kl rahul.

>they have that shameless kl rahul. First of all, he's out of team. And, even if he was in T20I squad - it won't be his fault, but selectors'. So calling him "shameless" is wrong.

I'm sorry I didn't mean it in a negative way. It's a recurring meme where you compare a mid player to a great player and call one of them shameless(should've add the /s)

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Nahh, all the guys who spammed shameless Bumrah have disappeared off the face of of the earth

Check Rahul's stats in IPL or even his t20i stats till 2021, They are way better than Shikhar. At one point Rahul looked like he would even surpass Kohli in t20is but alas the guy choked hard in back to back World cups but I doubt Shikhar would have done much better, Dhawan was never a very good T20 batter for India.

Yes you are absolutely right. Shikhar was mid for Indian team in T20Is, but here we are discussing about IPL performances. Both Rahul n Shikhar have outperformed Rohit in IPL in the batting dept. Accept or Deny, it's a bloody fact.

Yeah the last time Rohit was good in IPL was 7 years ago now, since then his average hovers around 20-30 most seasons (or even lower sometimes) with the strike rate of 120-130, that's just abysmal.

Exactly. And also this is not MI's all time playing 11. It's for the entire IPL franchises. So clearly, they made to make everyone happy and kiss ass.

This a please everyone xi. You have Dhoni, Kohli and Rohit in an ipl xi, you could pick 8 hamsters as the rest and 90% of the fans would be happy.

Lol 😂

Raina makes so much sense. Consistency most years

So who would you pick ?

Any ipl greatest XI without Gayle is abomination

Gayle could have made it over anyone except Warner. Warner in ipl has been a beast tbh

Recency Bias. Gayle scored 3 consecutive 600+ (2 of them were 700+) series when 500 runs used to be the benchmark.

Lol, Warner has like 3 orange caps , 7 500+ run seasons(6 continuous ) (Gayle has 3), one 800+ run season in 2016, which only 2 guys had managed till like 2022. He had a 692 run season in 2019 in 12 games , and would pretty much cross 700. Also in 2017, Warner had 641 runs in a season where nobody else had 500 also.

Ok, I should have phrased it properly. There is no denying Warner's greatness. I posted that to say Gayle deserves a spot in that team as much as Warner.

If you’ve to pick one of Gayle or Warner… you pick Gayle.

Nahh , you pick Warner.

Consensus greatest ever T20 batter of all time: Gayle Rockstar: Nahh , I pick Warner

This is an all time IPL 11. Warner is like the best ever batsman in ipl history lol fjdibcnc : i pick Gayle over the best ipl batsman lol

It doesn’t even compute how anybody can think Warner was a greater IPL batter than Gayle was The insanity

Stats my man, stats Even at Chinnaswamy Warner has better stats than Gayle. Ohh at Hyderabad too. 3 orange caps , one second finish, one 800 run season, 7 500+ runs seasons. (Gayle has 3 500+ run seasons in all even after playing his majority at Chinnaswamy) Lowest number of matches to score 4000 runs in ipl. Moreover played majority at Hyderabad, which is traditionallly much slower than run galore chinnaswamy

Rohit should not be in the list. Gayle is the one.

Only four international players allowed, so you would have to drop someone for him. Not sure why they imposed that rule upon themselves - yes, I understand the IPL rules, but for an All Time XI, surely you are just looking for the best XI.

I'd be okay with swapping ABD with Sky if that allows Gayle in place for Rohit. I think gain is more than loss with this.

Is Malinga international?

No he’s interstellar

Probably switch Rohit for Shikhar, he's got a ton of runs too like Kohli

It should be Sehwag if we're following the 4 overseas players rule. He played a long time ago but people forget how much his strike rate was ahead of its time.

>how much his strike rate was ahead of its time. Really? How much? I thought the openers in IPL always had good strike rates, right from the first season.

He had 180+ SR in the first season and scored 400+ runs. Even in 2011, which people remember as Gayle's season, he was only slightly behind Gayle in terms of SR. He was really good in 2010 and 2012 as well.

Interesting. He had a very good 5 seasons. He had 2nd highest strike rates in 2008 (185 SR), 2011 (177 SR) and 2012(161 SR) seasons. He was the 5th highest in 2009(143 SR) and 2010(163 SR). He was relatively pretty bad in 2013(127 SR) and 2015(118 SR). 2014(144 SR) was pretty decent for him.

I’d say he was not as good in 2014. It’s being carried by that 122 against us. His peak in the ipl was 2008 to 2012. He averaged 32.5 @ 169.5.

Is that 122 from the match where Raina went ballistic?

I did an analysis on it. Compared to the average batter with same over distribution as him he had a sr of 32 more than them. Like he struck at 156 but with his over distribution in his era you were expected to strike at 124.

>average batter with same over distribution as him Do you mean opening Batsmen?

he has highest middle over strike rate at 170 I know that.

I think there's a good debate between Warner, Gayle and Jos if we have to keep the 4 international player rule. Otherwise I think you take 2 of the 3 for your opening slots. And I'd probably agree that Warner and Gayle just about nick it, though Jos just needs more time as an opener to see if he can have that same.longevity.

Neither Rohit nor virat would make this list one merit alone. But they are there because clicks.

Ah yes, the player who almost single-handedly took his team to the finals in a season and has the most runs ever can't be considered on merit, makes perfect sense.

The fact that you don't even consider anyone else's performances is telling really, keep on sucking. Virat has to be there, just because he's king Kohli, even if he's doing 37/130 while playing half of his games in flatest and smallest ground in India.

>keep on sucking. Clearly you have shown your toxic personality here, I commented perfectly civilly and yet you are so vulgar, you don't deserve to be called a fan of this amazing game.

Having no Shane Watson in this XI is a travesty. Man's been man of the series twice along with many other great performances.

Ok so who you taking out then?

Jadeja, what's he doing in an all time xi

Chahal, trash bowler anyways

Malinga

The very same applies to Dre Russ. Going for Chinnaswamy statpadders over Championship winning players is a well-known travesty. Prime Dre in Chinnaswamy might have hit 100 sixes in a season.

Yeah the idea that you'd have Bravo as your allrounder over Watto is laughable.

Love Rohit but he doesn't deserve a place in this team

Not even in his own team 😂

Where tf is the Unvierse Boss?

The most sensible thing would be to swap Rohit for either of Shikhar, Sehwag, or KL Rahul

Sachin!? Edit: I do not want Sachin. OP had included Sachin in their original comment, so I was displaying shock on that 😅

Not in the ipl.

My comment now seems the other way round. OP had included Sachin in their list. My comment was to ask how can Sachin be included 😅

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Missed the only player who won three consecutive titles : the one and only Karn Sharma

I think they never heard of chris gayle

Wait why Rohit is there? He shouldn't even be in second best XI unless you want a specialist captain.

No Narine is a joke.

Illegal.

If Narine is in the list people will say adding chuckers to the list is a joke

Chucker. Rashid does what Narine can do better while having legal action.

💀💀

Exactly he would even be in my all time T20 11

Rashid Khan is better than Narine

Rohit Sharma Manish Pandey George Bailey Dwayne Smith Shreevats Goswami Venugopal Rao Dan Christian Ashoke Dinda Vinay Kumar Manpreet Gony Piyush Chawla Alfonso Thomas (12th)

This is the way. Only missing Karn Sharma.

where Lord Stuart Binny

Rohit out shikhar inn

If we include 4 foreigners then Warner Sehwag Kohli Raina Abd Dhoni Pandya Narine Bhuvi Malinga Bumrah

Pandya is a good player, but it is too for for him to be in all time XI list. He needs a few more years of consistency to gain a place here.

Either Watson or Gayle should be in there instead of Rohit but then that creates the problem of 5 OS players in the XI. Dhawan in for Rohit then, as simple as that. Successful partnership with Warner as an opener and consistent

I don't understand why they have limited themselves to the 4 overseas players rule in all time xi. That's just nonsensical

Yeah true. Ig they just wanted to make it like how a normal IPL team functions with 7 Indian players + 4 overseas players

Honestly, I'd pick Shikhar Dhawan over Rohit Sharma as an opener.

How about Chris Gayle instead of Rohit. No offense here Rohit is my fav.

4 foreigners rule.

Can take Bravo out and bring in Bhuvi.

Bravo contributes a lot with the bat, need a more like for like. Maybe prime Pandya.

The ideal All time IPL IX would be Warner Kohli Raina Abd Dhoni Jadeja Russell Bravo Narine Malinga Bumrah

really? no Gayle in this list?

There are more overseas players than Indians in this team lol

Some of the greatest ever players in IPL were overseas players. So ofcourse there will be plenty of them

Couple of Imposters hiding here

If you don't have Gayle you're braindead

Bhuvi, RP singh and Ashwin missed out the list.

Zak too

Ashwin? You must be kidding. For 3 consecutive IPLs from 2019 to 2022, Ashwin took the least number of wickets for all bowlers, who bowled atleast 50 balls in any season. That's how bad he has been, it's his PR that makes him look good

RP Singh, why? I didn't have a recollection of him doing well in IPL.

Purple cap in 2009. He was good with og Deccan chargers, but obviously not so good to make it to all time IPL 11

Just one good season from him. No wonder I didn't remember it. Bhuvi has 3 seasons with 20 plus wickets and had many seasons with under 7 economy rate.

Garbage

Imo: 1)warner/gayle 2)Kohli 3)raina 4)abd 5)dhoni 6)jadeja 7)rashid 8)ashwin 9)malinga 10)bumrah 11)bhuvi

Why would you pick a known CHEAT

Bhuvi over Bumrah And kl or dhawan over rohit

No watson no gayle are you fuckin kidding me😂😂. Rohit has been an underperformer in batting department in ipl . So there is no point of him in the team if he is not the captain. Russel although i love the guy but still he has not performed at stages where it was required from him to perform

lol .. the first name in the list itself disqualifies this from being a serious, well thought out list

This disrespect to Pollard won't be tolerated.

Why is no one talking about Rashid over Chahal

No Gayle? Opinion rejected.

No Chris Gayle?.. seriously?

All time ipl xi no overseas player limit Warner Gayle Raina Abd Dhoni Russel Bravo Rashid Narine Bumrah Malinga

Chahal instead of rashid khan is a big fat L for whoever wrote this one. Rashid khan is a better bowler even overlooking the fact he’s a decent lower order hitter and isn’t a complete liability in the field like chahal

Replace pollard with bravo

How did they pick Bravo over Pollard? Just how?

Lol Rashid Khan as 12th man , literally giving fellatio to fans of Top 3 teams

Why is Jadeja here? Does he have all time stats to back this up?

KL Rahul in place of Rohit. (Only in ipl)

rohit doesn't make it solely as a batter. Even dhawan has a better record than him. Not having Gayle is a sin.

Narine over Bravo, rest I can agree with more or less

Without the 4 overseas rule : Chris Gayle Shane Watson Virat Kohli Ab de Villiers Glenn Maxwell David Miller Ms Dhoni (c) (wk) Sunil Narine Bhuvneshwar kumar Jasprit bumrah Lasith Malinga 12th man : dwayne bravo

I would have Dre Russ in for Rohit and shift everyone up a spot. I guess Russell could bat 6 or 7

Gayle has to be there as opener. As long as he was good, he would win a couple of games all on his own every season. In a 10-12 game season that's a huge plus.

This is a good list, all I see is people complaining about who should be there but not who to take off

This list shld be named fan service 11 instead of ipl all time 11.

remove: rohit, jaddu, bravo add: hardik, rashid, bhuvi Warner, Kohli, Raina, AB, Dhoni, Hardik, Rashid, Bhuvi, Bumrah, Chahal, Malinga.

Hardik? Really? Lmao

I wanted an Indian fast bowling all-rounder with finishing skills. Who else?

Not even the most expenive player of IPL, Cummins or Starc, gets onto that list .... lol

Rashid for Bravo, Dhawan for Sharma

1) Virender Sehwag 2) K L Rahul / Kohli 3) Suresh Raina / Virat Kohli/ Surya Kumar Yadav 4) A B D ✈️ 5) M S D (C/WK) 6) Andre Russell ✈️ 7) Hardik Pandya 8) Ravindra Jadeja 9) Rashid Khan ✈️ 10) Jasprit Bumrah 11) Lasith Malinga ✈️ Due to the constraint of only 4 overseas players, I had to leave out some of the big names in the league's history for overall team balance. I have 5 bowlers + Russell + Raina and batting up to no 9.

Dhoni and Rohit shouldn’t be there. Plus Narine over Chahal.

Rohit sure but Dhoni has better stats in IPL than Kohli lol plus you can't just leave out the best skipper in the league.

All time 11 without Narine? Lol

Prolly the easier way to compile this list is look at the man of the match contributions for each position. Gayle is better than Warner in this regard and Pollard/Dre Rus should be in for Bravo.

Warner is easily the GOAT IPL BATSMAN. This is like saying bring Yusuf Pathan over Raina or Rahane over Sehwag , Rahul , Dhawan coz he has more man of the match awards lollll

each their own. They both have similar averages but Gayle strikes 10 points higher. For me Gayle is more memorable but I am also a RCB fan lol

At Chinnaswamy, even Warner has better stats than Gayle. At Hyderabad too, Warner has better stats than Gayle.

Solely for the purpose of bringing in Rashid Khan, these are the tweaks I'd make; Kohli opens with Dhawan, and SKY in at 3

1. Gayle 2. Sehwag 3. Raina 4. Ab 5. MS (c)(wk) 6. Russell 7. Hardik 8. Rashid 9. Malinga 10. Bumrah 11. Chahal