Strongest Starting XI of all teams after IPL Auction
The much-awaited Vivo IPL auction for the season 2018-19 finally unwrapped in Jaipur on December 18, 2018. This season's auction came with many twists, turns, shocks, and thrillers.
The sides were well prepared with their plans, considering a number of factors, such as their team combination, the venue of the event (with the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to be held in India), and the ICC World Cup around the corner.
Young guns such as Shivam Dubey, Varun Chakravarthy, Nicholas Pooran and Prabhsimran Singh fetched high amounts, while seasoned campaigners like Brendon McCullum, Dale Steyn, Angelo Matthews, and Morne Morkel could not find any buyers.
Let's have a look into the strongest possible starting units of all the franchises post the IPL Auction:
Delhi Capitals
Delhi Capitals were the ones who kick-started the auction by picking young Hanuma Vihari for a sum of 2 crores. Having secured the services of Shikhar Dhawan by trading Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, and Shahbaz Nadeem, they covered most of their areas by picking the likes of left-handed all-rounder Axar Patel, local boy Ishant Sharma, and the Protea T20 specialist Colin Ingram, which turned out to be their highest bid for Rs 6.4 crore.
Let's have a look at their strongest starting XI of the side:
DC Strongest Starting XI - Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Colin Ingram, Chris Morris, Axar Patel, Amit Mishra, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult, Ishant Sharma
Led by young sensation Shreyas Iyer, the squad looks promising with an all-Indian top order with international experience and Colin Ingram fills the role of a finisher down the order. Axar and Morris provide a good balance to the side in their capacities as spin and seam all-rounders.
The leg break of Mishra and Lamichhane would be a lethal combination on the Kotla wicket, as would be the pace combo of Trent Boult and Ishant Sharma, with the latter knowing the Delhi wicket very well.
The franchise would be expecting a change in their fortunes with a change in the side's name and hoping to gather initial momentum to be a force to reckon.