CricTracker Fan Poll: Best IPL side after the auction

3. Sunrisers Hyderabad: 16%

Sunrisers Hyderabad is the third best IPL side after the auction as 16% fans voted for them. Certainly, the franchise was the smartest of them all making some decent buys going for impact players and not on reputation. David Warner will be the leader of the pack as Bhuvneshwar Kumar was also retained with him. They used RTMs for Rashid Khan, Deepak Hooda and Shikhar Dhawan which makes them one of the strongest sides in the tournament.

Moreover, SRH also picked the all-rounders like Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Carlos Brathwaite and Mohammad Nabi which should bode well for the team. The striking thing though was their persistence with the Indian pace bowlers. Billy Stanlake is the only overseas fast bowler in the squad as the likes of Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi among others make up the pace attack. The team looks absolutely strong as all the sides should be wary of the underdogs this year who has won the title before in 2016.