5 reasons why SRH have been the best team at the IPL auctions over the years

#4 Maintaining a good bench strength

Each team plays at least 14 games in the IPL. The two-month-long tournament is bound to see a few injuries here and there. We’ve often seen players going down with injuries and that affects the team and the balance (For e.g. RCB in 2017). Thus, it is important to build a good bench strength.

SRH have done well over the past couple of years mainly due to their bench strength. They’ve always had backups for key players. For example, in 2017, even though, they had a full-strength bowling attack (comprising of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Mustafizur Rahman, and Rashid Khan among others), they stocked up their squad with a number of backup options (Mohammed Nabi, Chris Jordan, Pravin Tambe).

One of the main reasons is that bowlers are injury-prone and it is necessary to have enough backups.