Ranking the 8 IPL teams based on the average salary of the players

# 3 Sunrisers Hyderabad

David Warner set to return to IPL 2019 after the one year ban is paid Rs.12.5 Crore

Total Salary paid by the team – Rs.76.70 Crore

Average Salary of Players – Rs. 3.334 Crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad has a squad size of 23 players for the 2019 edition of the IPL. The total salary paid by the team comes to Rs.76.70 crore making them the third team that pays most salary per player.

The highest paid player in the squad is the Australian opener David Warner who is paid Rs.12.50 crore while the Indian middle-order batsman Manish Pandey is paid Rs.11 crore. Interestingly only 1 player in the form of Ricky Bhui is bought at the lowest price tag of Rs.20 lakh. The average salary of the 23 players in the squad comes to around Rs.3.33 Crore which is the sixth lowest in the industry.

When looking at the team from the total salary cost perspective, they are the 3rd team to have spent the least amount of salary money (Rs.76.70 crore) in IPL 2019. But when ranking the teams based on the average salary of the players in IPL 2019, Sunrisers Hyderabad is number three on the list.

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