IPL Auction 2017: After a lot of calculations and mind games. owners finally got hold of the desired players during the 2017 IPL Player Auction. Ben Stokes, Tymal Mills, Kagiso Rabada and Trent Boult were among the big gainers while uncapped Indian players such as T Natarajan, Aniket Choudhary and Mohammed Siraj also made their presence felt. Now, the next problem for the team management will be to find the right combination and slot in the new players in an already stable setup. While players like Ben Stokes and Kagiso Rabada may not find it hard to break into the team, same cannot be said for Jason Roy, Rashid Khan and Mohammed Siraj.
So, here we look at all the possible playing XIs after the much hyped Player Auction:
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
1. David Warner (captain), 2. Shikhar Dhawan, 3. Kane Williamson, 4. Yuvraj Singh, 5. Deepak Hooda, 6. Naman Ojha, 7. Rashid Khan, 8. Pravin Tambe, 9. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10. 9 Mustafizur Rahman, 11. Ashish Nehra
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
1. Chris Gayle, 2. Virat Kohli (captain), KL Rahul (wk), AB de Villiers, 5. Shane Watson, 6. Kedar Jadhav, 7. Pawan Negi, 8. Yuzvendra Chahal, 9. Tymal Mills, 10. Aniket Choudhary, 11. Sreenath Aravind
Mumbai Indians:
1. Rohit Sharma (captain), 2. Parthiv Patel (wk), 3. Ambati Rayudu, 4. Jos Buttler, 5. Kieron Pollard, 6. Hardik Pandya, 7. Karn Sharma, 8. Harbhajan Singh, 9. Jasprit Bumrah, 10. Mitchell McClenaghan, 11. Lasith Malinga
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Delhi Daredevils:
1. Quinton de Kock (wk), 2. Shreyas Iyer, 3. Rishabh Pant, 4. Sanju Samson, 5. Karun Nair, 6. JP Duminy, 7. Chris Morris, 8. Amit Mishra, 9. Zaheer Khan (captain), 10. Kagiso Rabada, 11. Mohammed Shami
Gujarat Lions:
1. Brendon McCullum, 2. Aaron Finch, 3. Suresh Raina (captain), 4. Dinesh Karthik (wk), 5. Dwayne Bravo, 6. Ishan Kishan, 7. Ravindra Jadeja, 8. James Faulkner, 9. Praveen Kumar, 10. Dhawal Kulkarni, 11. Shivil Kaushik
Rising Pune Supergiants:
1. Ajinkya Rahane, 2. Mayank Agarwal, 3. Steven Smith (captain), 4. Faf du Plessis, 5. MS Dhoni, 6. Ben Stokes, 7. Rajat Bhatia, 8. Ravichandran Ashwin, 9. Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Ashok Dinda, 11 Adam Zampa
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Kings XI Punjab:
1. Murali Vijay, 2. Hashim Amla, 3. Eoin Morgan (captain), 4. Glenn Maxwell, 5. David Miller, 6. Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7. Gurkeerat Singh Mann, 8. Axar Patel, 9. Mohit Sharma, 10. Sandeep Sharma, 11. Varun Aaron
Kolkata Knight Riders:
1. Gautam Gambhir (captain), 2 Robin Uthappa (wk), 3. Manish Pandey, 4. Yusuf Pathan, 5. Shakib Al Hasan, 6. Suryakumar Yadav, 7. Chris Woakes, 8. Piyush Chawla, 9. Sunil Narine, 10. Umesh Yadav, 11. Trent Boult
A changed in leadership will also play a key role in determining the final team. Steven Smith has recently taken over the side and may depend heavily on Dhoni’s input about the Indian domestic players. Similarly, availability of players will also be a key issue as England and South Africa have important series to play in May and some key players like Ben Stokes may not be available post 30th April.