IPL 2019: 3 squads that look the weakest on paper

The Indian Premier League 2019 auction took place on December 18 at Jaipur with as many as 351 players featuring in it. At the end of the affair, the teams completed their squad with a maximum of 25 players.

Since this was not a fresh auction, the franchises had the option to retain the core players and find replacement options for the senior players which seemed an easy task at the auction. These sides have built a strong squad and look the favorites to win the twelfth edition of the IPL.

The teams which had not retained their core struggled badly to build a competent squad as they saw the players of their preference being sold to other teams. These sides had to settle for less than a perfect squad and would hope that they make the best of what they have and win matches.

In this article, we will take a look at the three teams which look the weakest on paper while going into the IPL 2019.

#3 Delhi Capitals

The Delhi Capitals once again go into the IPL having a squad of exuberant but inexperienced players. Axar Patel was their only good buy at the IPL auction 2019. Despite having a set of good Indian players, this Delhi team looks uncharacteristically weak and shows signs to falter at some point in time in the tournament.

Also, what shocked the Delhi fans more were the choices of foreign players they made. They overspent on Colin Ingram who has not played international cricket for five years and bought West Indians Keemo Paul and Sherfane Rutherford who have barely played at the highest level.

This Delhi team is packed with too many openers and hence they lack a specialist middle-order batsman. This means one of the openers will have to bat out of his position which is not ideal.

Check out the Delhi Captials squad for 2019 here.