What the franchises would look for in the IPL 2017 Auction

4. Sunrisers Hyderabad

The defending champions led by David Warner were on a roll last season and defeated a strong RCB side in the final. They were a very underrated team till the last season but raised their performance level a notch last year and managed to emerge as the champions. Thier squad has the following top players:

Openers: David Warner (c), Shikhar Dhawan

Middle Order Batsmen: Yuvraj Singh, Moises Henriques, Kane Williamson, Naman Ojha (wk)

All-rounders: Ben Cutting, Deepak Hooda

Spinners: No specialist

Fast bowlers: Mustafizur Rahman, Ashish Nehra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Barinder Sran, Siddharth Kaul

What’s required

They have released leg-spinner Karn Sharma from the squad and hence there is a void for the specialist spinner in the squad. With INR 20.9 crores in the purse, they can afford to go big to fill that gap with another leg-spinner like Imran Tahir. The all-rounders Pawan Negi and Parvez Rasool could also be on their radar.

They can accommodate 4 more overseas players and having plenty in the bag to spend, they must look to put a backup overseas fast bowler for Mustafizur. They had Trent Bolt in the side but after his omission, they can afford to spend above average on a pacer as well.

Naman Ojha is the sole wicketkeeper in the squad and there are only 2 openers. Hence someone like Aditya Tare comes into contention here too who can bat up the order and keep the wickets.