The Indian Premier League will kick off from April 7. Each team will look to set their best playing XI according to conditions and 7:4 (local: overseas) setup. They will also to strengthen their department with an opening, middle order and lower middle order batsmen and proper bowlers with effective all-rounders.
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Here is a list of probable playing XI of each team
– by James Kuanal
Chennai Super Kings
- Sam Billings/Murali Vijay
- Shane Watson/ Faf du Plessis
- Suresh Raina
- Ambati Rayudu
- MS Dhoni
- Kedar Jadhav
- Dwayne Bravo
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Harbhajan Singh/ Imran Tahir
- Lungi Ngidi/ Mitchell Santner/ Mark Wood
- Shardul Thakur
Rajasthan Royals
- Rahul Tripathi
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Henrich Klassen/ D’Arcy Short
- Sanju Samson
- Ben Stokes
- Jos Buttler
- Stuart Binny
- K Gwotham
- Jofra Archer/ Ben Laughlin
- Jaydev Unadkat
- Dhawal Kulkarni
Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Kane Williamson
- Manish Pandey
- Deepak Hooda/ Yusuf Pathan
- Nabi/ Carlos Braithwaite
- Rashid Khan
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Siddharth Kaul
- Basil Thampi/ Syed Khaleel Ahmed
Kings XI Punjab
- K L Rahul
- Aaron Finch/Chris Gayle*
- Karun Nair
- Yuvraj Singh
- David Miller
- Marcus Stoinis
- Axar Patel
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Andrew Tye
- Mohit Sharma
- Brainder Sran
Note: Gayle might only work as a mentor.
Mumbai Indians
- Evin Lewis/ Ben Cutting
- Ishan Kishan
- Rohit Sharma
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Keiron Pollard
- Krunal Pandya
- Hardik Pandya
- Rahul Chahar
- Pat Cummins
- Jason Behrendoff/ Mustafizur Rahman/ Akila Dhananjaya
- Jasprit Bumrah
Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Manan Vohra/ P Patel
- Quinton de Cock/ Brendan McCullum
- Virat Kohli
- AB De Villiers
- Shadab Khan
- Mandeep Singh/ Pawan Negi
- Chris Woakes
- Yuzvendra Chahal
- Washington Sundar
- Nathan Coulter Nile/ Colin De Grandhomme/ Tim Southee
- Mohammed Siraj/ Umesh Yadav/ Aniket Choudhary
Kolkata Knight Riders
- Robin Uthappa
- Sunil Narine
- Chris Lynn
- Shubman Gill
- Dinesh Karthik
- Nitish Rana
- Ishank Jaggi/ Apoorv Wankhede
- Andre Russel
- Kuldeep Yadav
- Vinay Kumar/ Kailash Nagarkoti
- Tom Curran/ Mitchell Johnson*
Note: Johnson might only work as a mentor.
Delhi Daredevils
- Gautam Gambhir
- Colin Munro/ Jason Roy
- Shreyas Iyer
- Risabh Pant/ Prithvi Shaw
- Glenn Maxwell/ Dan Christian
- Vijay Shankar
- Chris Morris
- Trent Boult
- Shami
- Amit Mishra
- Shahbaz Nadeem
Note: Kagiso Rabada ruled out of IPL with a back injury
– by James Kuanal