IPL 2023: Predicting where each team will end up on the points table

5. Sunrisers Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad had a horrid campaign in the 2022 season of the Indian Premier League and finished the tournament in the eighth position, with six wins in 14 outings. To redeem themselves, they have moved past players who did not perform as expected and filled the team's void with quality personnel.

SRH also have the likes of Rahul Tripathi, Heinrich Klaasen, and Glenn Phillips, who are known to play a fearless brand of cricket and could make IPL 2023 their own. Moreover, they have Mayank Agarwal in the mix, who has been a proven performer in IPL.

They acquired the services of Harry Brook at the IPL 2023 auction for a whopping sum of INR 13.25 crore. However, Brook has never featured in the cash-rich league and thus, It would be interesting to see if SRH’s investment bears fruit.

On the bowling front, Hyderabad have great depth in their Indian fast-bowling stocks, with gun pacers such as Bhuveshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan, and Karthik Tyagi at their disposal. However, Bhuveshwar and Natarajan have not had proper game time in the recent past and it remains to be seen if they will be at their best in the marquee event. Given SRH's intimidating batting line-up and a solid bowling attack, they could be expected to perform better than the last season but a top-four finish might be tough.