Different edition but the same old Sunrisers Hyderabad. The emphasis on investing in bowlers at auctions may have left them with a familiar weakness once again: a lack of big names in the batting order.
Kane Williamson, who has been struggling with an elbow problem may have to carry the batting responsibility on his shoulders. The bowling department has got their core back: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, and T Natarajan, and they have added Kartik Tyagi and Sean Abbott apart from allrounders Marco Jansen and Romario Shepherd.
Purse entered: INR 68 crore
Purse Left: INR 0.10 crore
Biggest buys: Nicholas Pooran (INR 10.75 crore), Washington Sundar (INR 8.75 crore), Rahul Tripathi (INR 8.5 crore)
Nicholas Pooran could turn out to be a risky buy at that price. Rahul Tripathi could be a shrewd purchase and would be expected to hold the batting together along with Kane.
If Williamson is unavailable for even a single game, SRH will have a big void in their top three. They also lack a top-quality spinner - Indian or overseas - so they will have to manage with Washington Sundar, Shreyas Gopal, and a few overs from their part-timers. The match winners of the last few years Warner, Bairstow, and Rashid have left the franchise, those will be big gaps to fill.
Squad List:
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH): Kane Williamson (R), Umran Malik (R), Abdul Samad (R), Washington Sundar, Nicholas Pooran, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Kartik Tyagi, Shreyas Gopal, J Suchith, Aiden Markram, Marco Jansen, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, Fazalhaq Farooqi