IPL Auction 2020: Ranking the teams according to their buys

#4 Sunrisers Hyderabad

Priyam Garg

Sunrisers Hyderabad had retained 18 players and had a little work to do at the auctions. The team went into the auction with a purse of ₹17 crore, hoping to cover some backup options as well as batsmen for the lower middle order. They didn't go after any big names and invested heavily in young players.

The franchise bought Priyam Garg and Virat Singh, the two young Indian players who have recently grabbed headlines for being appointed as the captain of India U-19 team and impressive performances in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy respectively. Both being aggressive players, can help to provide the team with finishing in the death overs.

The team also bought Mitchell Marsh and Fabien Allen. However, these players are highly unlikely to get any chance, since the team has very solid foreign options in David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Rashid Khan, and Kane Williamson. Thus, these buys seemed to be a bit surprising.

Surprisingly, the team didn't go after any Indian pacer. Although the team already had a decent pace collection, comprising Indian options like Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Khaleel Ahmed. Bhuvneshwar has been injury prone lately, which might put them in need of a backup Indian fast bowler later.