IPL 2018: Predicting the wild cards from each franchise

Deepak Hooda (Sunrisers Hyderabad)

The only player in this whole list who played for the same team in the last season, Deepak Hooda has been the first choice all-rounder for the Sunrisers Hyderabad for the past two season. Having scored 222 runs, at a strike rate of almost 130, for SRH in the last two seasons batting at no. 7, Hooda will again be a vital component of the team that is strong both as a batting unit and as a bowling unit.

For years, SRH have been completely dependent on their top 3 batsmen and their impeccable bowling unit. The presence of someone like Deepak Hooda after the likes of Yusuf Pathan and Manish Pandey in the batting order gives the teams the vital lower order partnerships that were instrumental in their victorious 2016 campaign.