Which is the strongest squad in IPL 2019?

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Full squads of all the eight IPL 2019 teams:

CSK


Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi

Bought: Mohit Sharma (Rs 5 crore), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Rs 20 lakh)

MI

Retained: Rohit Sharma (C), Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Siddhesh Lad, Aditya Tare, Quinton de Kock, Evin Lewis, Kieron Pollard, Ben Cutting, Mitchell McClenaghan, Adam Milne, Jason Behrendorff

Traded: Quinton de Kock from RCB

Bought: Lasith Malinga (Rs 2 crore), Anmolpreet Singh (Rs 80 lakh), Barinder Sran (Rs 3.40 crore), Pankaj Jaiswal (Rs Rs 20 lakh), Rasikh Salam (Rs 20 lakh), Yuvraj Singh (Rs 1 crore)


KKR

Retained: Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Shivam Mavi, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

Bought: Carlos Brathwaite (Rs 5 crore), Lockie Ferguson (Rs 1.60 crore), Anrich Nortje (Rs 20 lakh), Nikhil Naik (Rs 20 lakh), Harry Gurney (Rs 75 lakh), Yarra Prithviraj (Rs 20 lakh), Joe Denly (Rs 1 crore), Shrikant Mundhe (Rs 20 lakh)


DC

Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult

Traded: Shikhar Dhawan from Sunrisers Hyderabad for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem

Bought: Hanuma Vihari (Rs 2 crore), Axar Patel (Rs 5 crore), Ishant Sharma (Rs 1.10 crore), Ankush Bains (Rs 20 lakh), Nathu Singh (Rs 20 lakh), Colin Ingram (Rs 6.40 crore), Sherfane Rutherford (Rs 2 crore), Keemo Paul (Rs 50 lakh), Jalaj Saxena (Rs 20 lakh), Bandaru Ayyappa (Rs 20 lakh)


SRH

Retained: Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, T Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Shakib Al Hasan

Bought: Jonny Bairstow (Rs 2.20 cr), Wriddhiman Saha (Rs 1.2 cr), Martin Guptill (Rs 1 cr)


RR

Retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Krishnappa Gowtham, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Gopal, Aryaman Birla, S. Midhun, Prashant Chopra, Stuart Binny, Rahul Tripathi, Ben Stokes, Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Ish Sodhi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mahipal Lomror

Bought: Jaydev Unadkat (Rs 8.4 cr), Varun Aaron (Rs 2.4 cr), Oshane Thomas (Rs 1.1 cr), Shashank Singh (Rs 30 lakh), Liam Livinstone (Rs 50 lakh), Shubham Rajane (Rs 20 lakh), Manan Vohra (Rs 20 lakh), Ashton Turner (Rs 50 lakh), Riyan Parag (Rs 20 lakh)

KXIP

Retained: KL Rahul, Chris Gayle, Andrew Tye, Mayank Agarwal, Ankit Rajpoot, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Karun Nair, David Miller and Ravichandran Ashwin

Bought: Moises Henriques (Rs 1 cr), Nicholas Pooran (Rs 4.2 cr), Varun Chakaravarthy (Rs 8.4 cr), Sam Curran (Rs 7.2 cr), Mohammad Shami (Rs 4.2 cr), Sarfaraz Khan (Rs 25 lakh), Hardus Viljoen (Rs 75 lakh), Arshdeep Singh (Rs 20 lakh), Darshan Nalkande (Rs 30 lakh), Prabhsimran Singh (Rs 4.8 cr), Agnivesh Ayachi (Rs 20 lakh), Harpreet Brar (Rs 20 lakh), Murugan Ashwin (Rs 20 lakh),


RCB

Retained: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme


Bought: Shimron Hetmyer (4.2 cr), Devdutt Padikkal (20 lakh), Shivam Dube (5 cr), Heinrich Klassen (50 lakh), Gurkeerat Singh (50 lakh), Himmat Singh (Rs 65 lakh), Prayas Ray Barman (Rs 1.5 cr)

Traded: Mandeep Singh for Marcus Stoinis

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2019-complete-squads-of-all-teams-5499337/

 

[jagatk]

SRH, followed by MI RR and KKR.

 

[ARK Rafay]

CSK!!!

Btw why Jaydev Unadkat is so in demand?

 

[rexbamezai]

RCB looks the strongest to me, but I feel they'll find ways to lose again.

 

[cricketindiafan]

SRH , CSK, KKR, MI and Kings 11 are my top 5 in that order. DC have the youth power but are a dud at team strategy else they have a very exciting squad.

 

[rexbamezai]

CSK!!!

Btw why Jaydev Unadkat is so in demand?

Beats me! He got smacked all round the park last season. He ended up with an economy rate close to 10 and picked up only 11 wickets in 15 matches if I remember correctly.

 

[rexbamezai]

RCB looks the strongest to me, but I feel they'll find ways to lose again.

On second thought, I'll go with SRH. Warner, Williamson and Rashid Khan are very reliable players.

 

[hadi123]

Not that I care about the IPL, but a quick skim read of the squads suggests to me that Mumbai Indians have the strongest squad, for what it's worth

 

[mastersaan10]

Kohli really is clueless. His bowling was so weak last time, he needed to strengthen it but instead bought hitmyer.

 

[rhony]

CSK!!!

Btw why Jaydev Unadkat is so in demand?

What else can you expect from a team that is captained by the worst LOI batsman produced by India in recent times - Rahane

 

[ARK Rafay]

What else can you expect from a team that is captained by the worst LOI batsman produced by India in recent times - Rahane

Ok. But why is Rahane being captain of LO in the past effect Jaydev's Crores in IPL?

 

[Reddy]

CSK!!!

Btw why Jaydev Unadkat is so in demand?

Jaydev Unadkat is good at bowling cutters and slower ones which is suitable for T20 cricket, that is why he gets big IPL contracts like 11.5 crores last time and now 8.4 crores. You can say a kind of Mustafizur but Indian so more valuable.

 

[The Viper]

SRH and MI look the strongest. DC has a really strong Indian contingent but their overseas players haven’t been performing really in recent years. They need the likes of Munro to fire.

 

[Sadozai]

Srh

 

[Justcrazy]

CSK!!!

Btw why Jaydev Unadkat is so in demand?

There are reasons for that.

Availability wise , he will be available all season.

Secondly , being Indian player , he will not waste a foreign players spot.

Thirdly , other Indian pacers like Shami , Bumrah , ishant would be tired after Australian Tour . He will be fresh.

 

[gazza619]

CSK is the team to beat.

 

[light]

On paper RCB always looks like a beast but output is like a 3rd class team. CSK on the other hand looks like a crappy team on paper but output is always well above. SRH was looking sharp last year but with Shikar gone, might be a problem this year round since he was scoring bulk of the team's run. Bowling wise - probably best in business.

If you ask me, it might be CSK/SRH final all over again