IPL 2018 auction: Rating the squads

Sunrisers Hyderabad - 8/10

Openers: David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan

Middle-order batsmen: Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Sachin Baby, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal

Wicketkeepers: Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami

Allrounders: Shakib Al Hasan, Carlos Brathwaite, Yusuf Pathan, Deepak Hooda, Mohammad Nabi

Spinners: Rashid Khan, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi Hasan

Pacers: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Chris Jordan, Billy Stanlake

Hyderabad got the job done without much of a fuss in the auction. They used their RTMs on the usual suspects, Shikhar Dhawan, Deepak Hooda and Rashid Khan, and made Manish Pandey their most expensive buy at 11 crores.

Their squad, however, is short on someone who can finish games for them. While Yusuf Pathan is no more the batsman he used to be, drafting in Carlos Brathwaite will force them to drop a foreign player.

SRH's strong Indian pace line-up is, undoubtedly, the strongest of their units and they'll have to drive the team home in tricky situations.