IPL Auction 2020: Team-wise analysis of likely strategies and potential acquisitions

Sunrisers Hyderabad

SRH need to sort out their middle-order

Retained: Kane Williamson* [c], David Warner*, Manish Pandey, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan*, Mohammad Nabi*, Abhishek Sharma, Jonny Bairstow*, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Billy Stanlake*, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan

Released: Deepak Hooda, Martin Guptill, Ricky Bhui, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan

Available Auction Purse: INR 17 crore

Available Slots: 7 (Indian 5, Overseas 2)

Auction Strategy

The sun rises in style for the Orange Army through an intimidating top-3, but tends to set too soon owing to an underwhelming middle-order. At the upcoming auction SRH will hope to finally end this issue which has been plaguing them for several years now.

They have let go of Deepak Hooda and Yusuf Pathan, and it will be interesting to see who they pick as replacements given the dearth of quality alternatives in the market. Shakib Al Hasan's release was forced due to his ban, so they need will look for an overseas all-rounder as well.

SRH also need a backup overseas batsman, having parted ways with Martin Guptill.

Potential Acquisitions: Hanuma Vihari, Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Tripathi, Virat Singh, Shahrukh Khan, Jalaj Saxena, Stuart Binny, Fabian Allen, Piyush Chawla, Lendl Simmons, Sam Billings, Alex Carey, Ben Cutting