2018 IPL auction: Is this how the starting XIs will look?

NEW DELHI: Following this weekend’s 2018 IPL player auction in Bengaluru, where a mind-boggling 431.17 crore was spent, here’s a look at how the eight franchises may roll out their starting XIs when the 11th season of the IPL starts on April 7.


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Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab have not named captains, but are bets are Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa and Aaron Finch respectively.

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MUMBAI INDIANS
1 Evin Lewis, 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 JP Duminy, 5 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Krunal Pandya, 9 Pat Cummins 10 Pradeep Sangwan, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
1 David Warner (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Manish Pandey, 4 Shakib Al Hasan, 5 Deepak Hooda, 6 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Carlos Brathwaite, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Siddarth Kaul, 11 Basil Thampi

DELHI DAREDEVILS
1 Colin Munro, 2 Shreyas Iyer, 3 Gautam Gambhir (capt), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Chris Morris, 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Trent Boult, 11 Harshal Patel

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
1 Chris Lynn, 2 Robin Uthappa (capt), 3 Shubman Gill, 4 Nitish Rana, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Ishank Jaggi, 7 Andre Russell, 8 Kamlesh Nagarkoti, 9 Sunil Narine, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Mitchell Starc

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
1 Brendon McCullum, 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Sarfaraz Khan, 6 Washington Sundar, 7 Pawan Negi, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Navdeep Saini, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
1 Shane Watson, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Kedar Jadhav, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Deepak Chahar, 10 Shardul Thakur, 11 Mark Wood

RAJASTHAN ROYALS
1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Sanju Samson (wk), 5 Jos Buttler, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Stuart Binny, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 K Gowtham, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Jaydev Unadkat

KINGS XI PUNJAB
1 Aaron Finch (capt), 2 Mayank Agarwal, 3 KL Rahul (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 David Miller, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Axar Patel, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Andrew Tye, 10 Ankit Rajpoot, 11 Mohit Sharma