IPL 8, Know Your Team: Sunrisers Hyderabad

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Present Squad

Ashish Reddy, Ricky Bhui, Ravi Bopara, Trent Boult, Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Siddarth Kaul, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Chama Milind, Eoin Morgan, Naman Ojha (wk), Parvez Rasool, Kevin Pietersen, Padmanabhan Prasanth, Lokesh Rahul, Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, Laxmi Shukla, Dale Steyn, Hanuma Vihari, David Warner, Kane Williamson (IPL 2015: Full Coverage)

Last year's squad

Darren Sammy (c), Srikkanth Anirudha, Ashish Reddy, Ricky Bhui, Shikhar Dhawan, Aaron Finch, Moises Henriques, Jason Holder, Manpreet Juneja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Naman Ojha (wk), Prasanth Parameswaran, Parvez Rasool, Irfan Pathan, Amit Paunikar, Lokesh Rahul, Ishant Sharma, Karn Sharma, Dale Steyn, Brendan Taylor, Venugopal Rao, David Warner

Looking back: IPL-7 Results

The Sunrisers Hyderabad endured an underwhelming season in 2014, finishing sixth with just six wins in 14 games.

Looking forward: IPL-8

The Sunrisers Hyderabad backed up some bold exclusions with excellent buys in the player auction 2015. The Hyderabad-based franchise acquired the services of Kevin Pietersen, Kane Williamson, Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara after letting go of previous season performers like Aaron Finch and Darren Sammy. Hyderabad also snapped up exciting Kiwi pacer Trent Boult.

Prediction:

Sunrisers Hyderabad have the ammo to finish in the top-four and challenge the best in the play-offs.