IPL Auction 2019 strategy: Sunrisers Hyderabad

#4 Quality Indian middle-order batsman:

Manoj Tiwary

SRH boast by far most talented group of Indian bowlers among all teams in the IPL but it isn't quite the same story when it comes to their batsmen. Their current crop of Indian middle order batsmen are Manish Pandey, Ricky Bhui, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Sharma and Vijay Shankar, not a lineup you would love to boast about.

Manish Pandey was acquired in the 2018 IPL draft for hefty sum of Rs 11 Crore and was expected to shore the burden of a weak middle order but alas he failed to match his lofty price tag scoring just 284 runs in 15 matches at a paltry average of 25.81, SRH will expect him to do better this time around.

The explosive duo Deepak Hooda and Yusuf Pathan were expected to finish off the innings after a good start or take on the role of stabilizing the innings in case of an early collapse and then fire away but alas apart from a couple of matches both of them were failures in their own right.

Experienced campaigners Manoj Tiwary, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Saurabh Tiwary and Yuvraj Singh can be good buys while young guns like Milind Kumar and Shivam Dubey who have performed well in the Ranji Trophy can also be taken into consideration.