04 April,2017 10:03 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Focus will be on the expensive buys this season as the 10th edition of the lucrative Indian Premier League gets underway in Hyderabad tomorrow
Ben Stokes, Tymal Mills, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Pat Cummins, Rohit Sharma, David Warner, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli
Ben Stokes (Rising Pune Supergiant): Rs 14.5 crore
Ben Stokes has firmly established himself as one of the best all-rounders. The 25-year-old will be itching to prove his worth with both bat and ball at Rising Pune Supergiant having scored 192 runs at a strike rate of 136.17 and claimed 10 wickets in 21 T20Is for England.
Tymal Mills (Royal Challengers Bangalore): Rs 12 crore
Royal Challengers Bangalore will expect the season's second biggest buy - Tymal Mills to deliver the goods in the absence of Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc. The left-arm pacer has just played four T20Is for England. The 24-year-old claimed seven wickets in five games in this year's Pakistan Super League.
Kagiso Rabada (Delhi Daredevils): Rs 5 crore
Daredevils will be hoping South African paceman Kagiso Rabada's fine form guides them to a maiden IPL title. The 21-year-old, who regularly bowls at 140-150 kmph has claimed eight wickets each in the recently-concluded ODI and Test series in New Zealand.
Trent Boult (Kolkata Knight Riders): Rs 5 crore
Kolkata Knight Riders will not want Trent Boult's recent groin injury, that ruled him out of the second and third Test vs South Africa, affect him in the IPL. The NZ pacer will be under pressure after going for 39 in his only match for Sunrisers in 2016.
Pat Cummins (Delhi Daredevils): Rs 4.5 crore
The 23-year-old was rewarded with an Australia Test call-up after six years, days after being picked up by Delhi Daredevils. The right-arm pacer didn't disappoint, by picking up eight wickets in two games in the Test series vs India.
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma(c), Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Gopal, Lendl Simmons, Vinay Kumar, Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nitish Rana, Siddhesh Lad, J Suchith, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Jithesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Asela Gunaratne, K Khejroliya.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
David Warner(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Moises Henriques, Naman Ojha, Ricky Bhui, Kane Williamson, Siddarth Kaul, Bipul Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Cutting, Abhimanyu Mithun, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Tanmay Agarwal, Mohammad Nabi, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Rashid Khan, Pravin Tambe, Chris Jordan, Ben Laughlin, Mohammed Siraj.
Delhi Daredevils
Zaheer Khan(c), Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Amit Mishra, Shreyas Iyer, Sam Billings, Sanju Samson, Chris Morris, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Rishabh Pant, CV Milind, Syed Ahmed, Pratyush Singh, Angelo Mathews, Corey Anderson, Kagiso Rabada, Pat Cummins, Ankit Bawne, Aditya Tare, Murugan Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Shashank Singh, Khaleel Ahmed.
Gujarat Lions
Suresh Raina(c), Ravindra Jadeja, James Faulkner, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith, Dinesh Karthik, Dhawal Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Andrew Tye, Ishan Kishan, Pradeep Sangwan, Shivil Kaushik, Shadab Jakati, Jaydev Shah. Nathu Singh, Basil Thampy, Tejas Singh Baroka, Manpreet Gony, Jason Roy, Munaf Patel, Chirag Suri, Shelly Shaurya, Shubham Agrawal, Pratham Singh, Aksh Deep Nath.
Kings XI Punjab
Glenn Maxwell(c), David Miller, Manan Vohra, Axar Patel, Gurkeerat Singh, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shaun Marsh, Wriddhiman Saha, Nikhil Naik, Mohit Sharma, Marcus Stoinis, KC Cariappa, Armaan Jaffer, Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Hashim Amla. Eoin Morgan, Rahul Tewatia, Thangarasu Natarajan, Matt Henry, Varun Aaron, Martin Guptill, Darren Sammy, Rinku Singh.
Rising Pune Supergiant
Steven Smith(c), MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Shardul Thakur, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Marsh, Ashok Dinda, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Ankit Sharma, Ishwar Pandey, Adam Zampa, Jaskaran Singh, Baba Aparajith, Deepak Chahar, Usman Khawaja, Mayank Agarwal, Ben Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Kumar, Dan Christian, Milind Tandon, R Tripathi, Manoj Tiwary, Lockie Ferguson.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Gautam Gambhir(c), Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shakib Al Hasan, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Sheldon Jackson, Ankit Singh Rajput, Trent Boult, Chris Woakes, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rovman Powell, R Sanjay Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Darren Bravo, Sayan Ghosh.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, S Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Samuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Sachin Baby, Avesh Khan, Tabraiz Shamsi, Pawan Negi, Tymal Mills, Aniket Choudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake.
