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Please help in identifying this player

Can anyone identify the player in this photo. Most probably he played for Kings11. Photo quality is low so reverse image search is not working. Thanks in advance

We’ve all argued about it for years:

• What if Delhi Daredevils never let AB de Villiers, Gautam Gambhir, and Andre Russell walk away?
• What if RCB bought Rohit Sharma at the 2011 Mega Auction instead of letting MI build a 5-trophy dynasty?
• What if your franchise picked 19-year-old Virat Kohli in the 2008 U-19 draft?
• Can anyone actually fix Punjab's auction strategy or finally deliver a trophy to RCB?

When we first merged The Chase, Powerplay IPL, and The Follow-On into CricArcade,, one of the most requested features was a true multi-season franchise career where players don't just reset after 14 matches, but age, grow, retire, and move through real mega-auctions.

Today we just rolled out our biggest update: IPL Dynasty Mode.

🏆 What is IPL Dynasty Mode?

👉 Direct link to play: cricarcade.com/ipl/dynasty (100% free, no download, runs directly in your browser on phone or PC)

In Dynasty Mode, you take the hot seat of any franchise in any year between 2008 and 2026 and run the team season after season indefinitely.

Here is what makes it realistic:

• 📅 Pick Any Starting Year (2008–2026): Take over CSK in 2008 to build Thala’s yellow army, manage Deccan Chargers in 2009, build Rohit’s 2013 MI squad, or take charge of Gujarat Titans/LSG from day one. You can even run classic defunct teams like Pune Warriors, Kochi Tuskers, Gujarat Lions, or Rising Pune Supergiant.
• 🔨 Sit in Real Mega-Auctions: Enter your franchise either by inheriting their real squad or by sitting at the table for that year's live historical auction. Real entrant pools, authentic base prices, purses (from ₹20 Cr in 2008 to ₹120 Cr+ today), overseas limits, and rival franchise AI bidding against you.
• 📊 Era-Calibrated Match Engine: An IPL 2008 match scores like 2008 (where 160 was a match-winning score), while a 2024–2026 match is calibrated to modern boundary rates, high-scoring death overs, and 200+ run chases.
• 🧠 7-Attribute Player System: No lazy monolithic ratings. Players are graded on Batting, Bowling, Fielding, Captaincy, Temperament (clutch nerve in knockouts and last-over chases), Consistency, and Fitness.
• 📈 Dynamic Player Aging & Career Growth: Young talents develop with game time and coaching. Veterans eventually slow down, decline, and retire. You’ll have to decide when to move on from aging legends.
• 🧢 Captaincy & Vice-Captaincy Matter: Appointing your skipper actually impacts the game. A high-captaincy leader tightens death-over field sets, steadies nerves in chases, boosts playoff composure, and helps develop younger players in the XI.
• 🔄 Real Offseason Cycles: Between seasons, balance your purse with retentions and RTMs, participate in mini-auctions, and scout the U-19 / Domestic Catchment Draft to unearth the next Bumrah or Hardik before your rivals do.
• 💾 Autosave Mid-Auction & Cloud Sync: If you have to close the tab midway through an auction, you won't lose your spot. It saves your exact lot, won bids, and remaining budget so you can resume anytime.

🔗 Quick Links:

• Play IPL Dynasty Mode: https://cricarcade.com/ipl/dynasty
• Main Hub (All Games): https://cricarcade.com
• Our Subreddit: r/TheCricketLab

🎮 What Other Game Modes Do We Have Apart From Dynasty Mode?

While Dynasty Mode is the headliner, CricArcade has a full suite of tactical cricket simulators across all formats:

1. 🏏 More T20 Franchise Modes (/ipl & /bbl)

• 1v1 Live Online Multiplayer (/ipl/versus): Play head-to-head against friends or matchmake with other players. Features a real-time ABBA snake draft under a ₹100 Cr cap, live tactical bowling matchups, in-game DRS reviews, and mid-innings batting order promotions.
• Single-Season Squad Mode / Career: Run a single-season campaign with player freshness/fatigue management, injuries, a mid-season trade window, and playoff runs.
• Big Bash League (BBL) Mode (/bbl): Experience Australian T20 conditions with the Power Surge, Bash Boost bonus points, and iconic Aussie pitches (Optus bounce, SCG spin, Gabba carry).

2. 🌍 The Chase – ODI & World Cup (/world-cup)

• The Immortal 380 Chase: Can you chase down 380-0? Draft an all-time World XI from 1975–2023 World Cup squads and try to pull off the greatest ODI chase in history ball-by-ball.
• 4-Year World Cup Career Mode: Take any international nation (or an all-time Dream XI) through a full 4-year FTP cycle—play bilateral series, qualify through international tournaments, manage squad freshness under a ₹100 Cr cap, and battle through the official 2027 World Cup format (Super 7s and Wanderers Final).
• Historical World Cup Tournaments: Replay any ODI World Cup from 1975 to 2023.

3. ⚪ The Follow-On – 5-Day Test Cricket (/test)

• Historical Test Match Captaincy: Ball-by-ball Test simulator covering over 2,500 historical matches from 1877 to present. Manage declarations, enforce follow-ons, handle second new balls, and survive batting collapses.
• Daily Live Test Matches (/test/live): Play real-world active Test matches currently happening in world cricket with official active squads and ground conditions.
• Player Card Vault: Unlock and collect digital cards of historic Test legends and explore scorecards spanning 140+ years of cricket history.

💰 Is it free?

Yes, 100% free. No paywalls, no coin packs, no ads blocking your screen, and no app store downloads. It runs directly in your browser on mobile, tablet, or desktop.

You can play completely anonymously with local storage saves, or sign in with Google to sync your career across devices and compete on global leaderboards.

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

1. Which franchise and year are you starting your dynasty with?
2. What's the biggest auction steal you've pulled off so far?
3. Which historical feature or tournament would you like to see added next?

Drop your feedback and questions below - I'll be hanging out in the comments all day!

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It is a turkish state media channel and the amount of meltdown both the pakistani and the old guy having about ipl and contracts and tv rights they are just blatanty making the ipl as bad and it is destroying international cricket.

I think he’s a good captain and has the ability. He lead his UP team to victory and won the cup.
Many people are skeptical but I think he should be given a chance to lead KKR next year.
If he does well then continue, if not then there’s a mega auction coming.

His performance in UPT20 has been good where he faced two collapse situations coming in at no. 6. In both of these matches, he scored 59(30) & 57(27). I know IPL is miles above UPT20, but it shows he has the ability to play in these situations.

His bowling has not been bad where he took 8 wickets in 12 innings at an economy of 6.7. If the management work on him, he can be an effective 6th bowling option.

CSK currently has their overseas slot full and they lack an Indian spinner. So in 2027, they should go with Prashant Veer at no. 6 and properly use his bowling with 1-2 overs in every match.

Why do I see footballers play like 3-5 times more games than the average cricketer? Cricket has 3 formats fir bhi even after combining all 3 you get less playtime than a regular in literally any level of most top sports.

Dude nowadays I literally don't even know when's the next game since they're so spaced out in internationals, and unlike football, international friendlies are where most of cricket is at.

Do we need leagues to expand for longer? A duration of 5-6 months, more games, but more spaced out than the current ipl model aswell to compensate for it, atleast for the t20 format, this is something which is a no brainer, we get a max to max 5 match series in a whole month, what's happening for the other 3 weeks?

Domestic circuit just does not have the same appeal.

Cricket dies a slow death like this. I want more, but the current scene is just so money hungry and not about the sport at all.

I always believed cricket is such a perfect sport for manager games - as good as football. The amount of stats, 3 formats, etc. - so many numbers to play with. But no game ever became as big as the Football Manager series. I played every version of Cricket Captain but it still feels like what the developers themselves describe it - a passion project rather than a commercial game, which explains the lack of features despite being almost a 3 decade old game.
Indian cricket fans have been the flag bearers of cricket games in general these days. I was wondering if people still would want to try something new if it comes out and has a potential. Is there still an audience?
For context, I am building one myself. The prime focus has been the match engine and I have spent months trying to polish it and make it as realistic as possible.

I think this might be the only slip catch to ever win Catch of the Season in a T20 tournament.

Slip catches rarely get the spotlight compared to those spectacular efforts on the boundary, but this one was genuinely special. The ball came quickly and yet he made it look ridiculously clean.

And of course, it had to be him.

MR IPL for a reason.

So what ya guys thinks on this topic as i generally feel the impact players rule has reduced the importance of an all rounder and it's boring to see 200+ scores easily made and chased in the ipl

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The upcoming mini auction will have very few high profile names in the auction pool assuming there aren't any major releases.

So Nahid Rana could emerge as a hot prospect in the auction. He is an express pacer who can clock 150 kmph, who has done well in all formats for Bangladesh in recent times especially in Test cricket which is a big deal for a pacer of his skillset. He is known for his accuracy too.

A lot of teams will be looking for an overseas pacer especially if Australian and England pacers are unavailable due to ODI WC and Ashes.

Teams that will have a big enough purse to go all out for him are KKR(if they release Pathirana, Fizz), CSK(if they release Karthik & Prasanth), MI(if they release Boult, Chahar), SRH(if they release Cummins, Livingstone), LSG(if they release Shami, Avesh, Pooran), DC(if they release Starc, Mukesh, Nattu).

So with so much money on the table and so few quality players in the auction pool, the auction will be all about inflated prices so Nahid is definitely getting a big paycheck